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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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Boles Barrow is in Imber, Wiltshire, South England Neolithic Burials.
Boles Barrow [Map] is a Long Barrow located on Salisbury Plain. 150 feet in length, ninety-four in breadth, and ten and a half in height.
Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1922 V41 Pages 172-174. "Blue hard stone, ye same as at Stonehenge," found in Boles [Bowles] Barrow [Map] (Heytesbury, I.)
Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1924 V42 Pages 431-437. 1924. The "Blue Stone" From Boles Barrow [Map]1 By B. Howard Cunnington (age 63), F.S.A., Scot.
Note 1. The Society is indebted to Mr. Cunnington for the kind gift of the plates illustrating this paper. - Editor