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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John Bathurst Deane is in Antiquaries.
On 27th August 1797 John Bathurst Deane was born to [his father] Captain Charles Meredith Deane at the Cape of Good Hope.
In 1821 John Bathurst Deane (age 23) was ordained Deacon, and priest in 1823.
On 15th June 1822 John Bathurst Deane (age 24) and Caroline Lemprière were married at St Nicholas's Church, Shaldon [Map].
Archaeologia Volume 25 Section XIII. Remarks on certain Celtic Monuments at Locmariaker, in Britany; in a Letter from the Rev. John Bathurst Deane (age 36), M.A., F.S.A., to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary. Read 17th January, 1833.
Archaeologia Volume 25 Section XII. Observations on Dracontia [Carnac]; Communicated by the Rev. John Bathurst Deane (age 36), M.A., F.S.A., in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary. Read 13th December, 1832.
On 22nd March 1834 John Bathurst Deane (age 36) and Louisa Elizabeth Fourdrinier were married. They had thirteen children.
On 12th July 1887 John Bathurst Deane (age 89) died.
In 1892 [his former wife] Louisa Elizabeth Fourdrinier died.