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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Paternal Family Tree: Spring
In 1610 [his father] William Spring [age 21] and Elizabeth Smith were married.
In 1613 William Spring 1st Baronet was born to [his father] William Spring [age 24].
Around 1623 William Spring 1st Baronet [age 10] educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
On 2nd March 1638 [his father] William Spring [age 49] died at Ridenhall, Norfolk.
In 1641 William Spring 1st Baronet [age 28] was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk.
In 1641 William Spring 1st Baronet [age 28] was knighted by King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland [age 40].
Before 1642 William Spring 1st Baronet [age 28] and Elizabeth Strange Lady Spring were married.
In 1642 [his son] William Spring 2nd Baronet was born to William Spring 1st Baronet [age 29] and [his wife] Elizabeth Strange Lady Spring.
On 11th August 1642 William Spring 1st Baronet [age 29] was created 1st Baronet Spring of Pakenham in Suffolk. [his wife] Elizabeth Strange Lady Spring by marriage Lady Spring of Pakenham in Suffolk.
In 1648 [his daughter] Dorothy Spring was born to William Spring 1st Baronet [age 35] and [his wife] Elizabeth Strange Lady Spring.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 17th December 1654 William Spring 1st Baronet [age 41] died. His son William [age 12] succeeded 2nd Baronet Spring of Pakenham in Suffolk.
[his son] John Spring was born to William Spring 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Strange Lady Spring.
[his daughter] Elizabeth Spring was born to William Spring 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Strange Lady Spring.
[his daughter] Catherine Spring was born to William Spring 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Strange Lady Spring.
[his son] Thomas Spring was born to William Spring 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Strange Lady Spring.
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Spring 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Spring
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Spring
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Spring
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Waldegrave 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Dorothy Waldegrave
GrandFather: John Spring
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Kitson 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Elizabeth Kitson
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Donnington of Stoke Newington
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Donnington Countess Bath
Father: William Spring