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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Baronet Allardice of Walton Heath in Surrey is in Baronetcies of England Alphabetically, Baronetcies of England Chronologically, Extinct Baronetcies of England.
The London Gazette 30527. Whitehall, February 14, 1918.
Letters Patent have passed the Great Seal of i the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland conferring the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom upon the undermentioned gentlemen and the heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten:
Sir Francis William Lowe, of Edgbaston, in the City of Birmingham, Knight.
Sir George Allardice Riddell (age 52), of Walton Heath, in the County of Surrey, Knight.
James Craig, of Craigavon, in the County of Down, Esquire.
Thomas Cope, of Osbaston Hall, in the parish of Market Bosworth, in the County of Leicester, Esquire.
On 5th December 1934 George Allardice 1st Baron Riddell (age 69) died. Baron Riddell of Walton Heath in Surrey and Baronet Allardice of Walton Heath in Surrey extinct.