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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 Colebrooke of Gatton in Surrey is in Baronetcies of England Alphabetically, Baronetcies of England Chronologically, Extinct Baronetcies of England.
Summary
12th October 1759. James Colebrooke 1st Baronet created.
10th May 1761. Brother George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet succeeded.
5th August 1809. Son James Edward Colebrooke 3rd Baronet succeeded.
1838. Nephew Thomas Edward Colebrooke 4th Baronet succeeded.
11th January 1890. Son Edward Arthur Colebrooke 1st Baron Colebrooke succeeded.
28th February 1939. Edward Arthur Colebrooke 1st Baron Colebrooke extinct.
On 12th October 1759 James Colebrooke 1st Baronet (age 37) was created 1st Baronet Colebrooke of Gatton in Surrey with a special remainder to his brother George (age 30) since James only had daughters.
On 10th May 1761 James Colebrooke 1st Baronet (age 38) died. His brother George (age 31) succeeded 2nd Baronet Colebrooke of Gatton in Surrey. George was left in sole charge of the family bank in Threadneedle Street. He invested some of his wealth in buying control of the borough of Arundel where the family lived. Arundel was not a classic pocket borough, where the power to return MPs was literally tied to property rights that could be freely bought and sold, but a thoroughly corrupt one where bribery was routine and where maintaining influence of the elections required constant expenditure.
On 5th August 1809 George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 80) died. His son James (age 48) succeeded 3rd Baronet Colebrooke of Gatton in Surrey.
In 1838 James Edward Colebrooke 3rd Baronet (age 77) died. His nephew Thomas (age 24) succeeded 4th Baronet Colebrooke of Gatton in Surrey.
On 11th January 1890 Thomas Edward Colebrooke 4th Baronet (age 76) died. His son Edward (age 28) succeeded 5th Baronet Colebrooke of Gatton in Surrey.
On 28th February 1939 Edward Arthur Colebrooke 1st Baron Colebrooke (age 77) died. Baron Colebrooke of Stebunheath in Middlesex, Baronet Colebrooke of Gatton in Surrey extinct.