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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.
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1871 is in The Diary of George Price Boyce.
6th March 1871. Letter from Mrs. Sullivan, mother of Mary Leslie (Mrs. Downing) to say that the latter had died of consumption, poor girl, on Saturday morning and asking me to come down and see her as she had expressed a wish I should.
To St. Thomas Street, Commercial Road, in reference to Mary Downing's dying request. A change had come over the poor girl, but she still looked beautiful as she lay still on her deathbed with a rosary on her bosom. Her mother and her sister and her husband and another man in the room. The mother much affected said that her daughter had always spoken in terms of great gratitude and esteem of me. She had been married 6 months.