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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.
Mathri Burlal Chamber is in Mathri, Pembrokeshire, Prehistoric Wales Neolithic Burials.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1872 Pages 81-143. In Mathri (martyrs) parish are the remains of a large chamber [Mathri Burlal Chamber [Map]], consisting of a capstone 13 ft. long by 8 broad, resting on one low supporter, the whole partially buried in the hedge. This apparently is the one mentioned by Fenton, who gives the length 14 ft.; and states that it was supported by stones 4 ft. high on one side, and scarcely 3 on the other. He speaks also of a cistvaen at one end, which had lost one side and its cover. This may have been a small secondary chamber. Another cromlech, according to the Ordnance Map, ought to be near it; but no traces of it are now remaining, and it is to be recretted that Fenton does not even allude to it.