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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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Baronet Roe of Brundish in Suffolk

Baronet Roe of Brundish in Suffolk is in Baronetcies of England Alphabetically.

                    The London Gazette 19359. 22nd February 1836. The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the following Gentlemen, and the respective heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten, viz.
                
                    The Reverend John Barker Mill [aged 32], of Mottisfont, in the county of Southampton.
                
                    Robert William Newman [aged 59], of Stokeley, and of Mamhead, in the county of Devon, Esq.
                
                    Henry Charles Paulet [aged 22], of West Hill-lodge, in the county of Southampton, Esq.
                
                    Sir Frederick Adair Roe [aged 46], of Brundish, in the county of Suffolk, Knt, Chief Magistrate of the Police Office, Bow-street, in the county of Middlesex.
                
                    Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Rowley [aged 65], of Hill-house, in the county of Berks, KCB.
                
                    Joseph Sawle Graves Sawle, of Penrice, in the county of Cornwall, and of Barley, in the county of Devon, Esq.

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On 20th April 1866 Frederick Adair Roe 1st Baronet [aged 77] died. Baronet Roe of Brundish in Suffolk extinct.