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Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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Around 1607 Edmund Pye 1st Baronet was born.
On 6th May 1635 Edmund Pye 1st Baronet (age 28) and Catherine Lucas Lady Pye were married.
On 23rd April 1641 Edmund Pye 1st Baronet (age 34) was created 1st Baronet Pye of Leckhampstead. [his wife] Catherine Lucas Lady Pye by marriage Lady Pye of Leckhampstead.
On 27th April 1641 Edmund Pye 1st Baronet (age 34) was knighted.
Around 1642 [his daughter] Martha Pye Baroness Lovelace was born to Edmund Pye 1st Baronet (age 35) and [his wife] Catherine Lucas Lady Pye. She married 1662 John Lovelace 3rd Baron Lovelace, son of John Lovelace 2nd Baron Lovelace and Anne Wentworth 7th Baroness Wentworth Baroness Lovelace, and had issue.
In 1661 Edmund Pye 1st Baronet (age 54) was elected MP Wycombe in the Cavalier Parliament.
In 1662 [his son-in-law] John Lovelace 3rd Baron Lovelace (age 21) and [his daughter] Martha Pye Baroness Lovelace (age 20) were married.
On or before 28th April 1673 Edmund Pye 1st Baronet (age 66) died. Baronet Pye of Leckhampstead extinct. He was buried on 28th April 1673.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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[his daughter] Elizabeth Pye was born to Edmund Pye 1st Baronet and Catherine Lucas Lady Pye. She married in or before 1684 Charles West, son of Charles West 5th Baron De La Warr.