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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On 10th September 1810 Matthew Henry Marsh was born to [his father] Reverend Matthew Marsh and [his mother] Margaret Brodie.
In 1833 Matthew Henry Marsh (age 22) was awarded BA and in 1835 MA by Christ Church College, Oxford University.
On 24th June 1840 Matthew Henry Marsh (age 29) sailed to Sydney on the Broxbournebury arriving on 24 September. There he purchased a 340,000 acre pastoral run in New England which he called Salisbury Plains, a 175,000 acre run called Boorolong, and a 200,000 acre run called Maryland on the Darling Downs (then part of New South Wales, but subsequently part of Queensland).
On 25th July 1844 Matthew Henry Marsh (age 33) and Eliza Mary Ann Merewether were married at Calne, Wiltshire.
In 1845 [his daughter] Georgiana Marsh Lady Croft was born to Matthew Henry Marsh (age 34) and [his wife] Eliza Mary Ann Merewether. She married 10th January 1865 Herbert George Denman Croft 9th Baronet, son of Archer Denman Croft 8th Baronet, and had issue.
In 1857 Matthew Henry Marsh (age 46) was elected MP Salisbury.
On 10th January 1865 [his son-in-law] Herbert George Denman Croft 9th Baronet (age 26) and [his daughter] Georgiana Marsh Lady Croft (age 20) were married. The same day his father Archer Denman Croft 8th Baronet (age 63) died.
On 26th January 1881 Matthew Henry Marsh (age 70) died at Bournemouth, Dorset [Map].