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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.
Godfrey Bingley 1842-1927 is in Photographers.
On 3rd July 1842 Godfrey Bingley was born.
August 1887. Godfrey Bingley (age 45). The Devil's Arrow's [Map].
12th April 1892. Godfrey Bingley (age 49). Historic Stonehenge.
25th July 1894. Godfrey Bingley (age 52). Micklegate Bar, York [Map].
27th April 1896. Godfrey Bingley (age 53). Whitby Abbey [Map]. Photograph of the view from the Choir of St. Hilda's Abbey, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
August 1896. Godfrey Bingley (age 54). Maen y bardd Burial Chamber [Map].
August 1896. Godfrey Bingley (age 54). Caister Castle, Norfolk [Map].
1st May 1897. Godfrey Bingley (age 54). Bolton Castle [Map].
18th July 1899. Godfrey Bingley (age 57). Caerlaverock Castle [Map].
18th July 1899. Godfrey Bingley (age 57). Monnow Bridge, Monmouth [Map].
18th July 1899. Godfrey Bingley (age 57). Raglan Castle [Map].
14th February 1906. Godfrey Bingley (age 63). Bootham Bar, York.
21st May 1906. Godfrey Bingley (age 63). Photographs of Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire [Map].
18th July 1907. Godfrey Bingley (age 65). Ludlow Castle [Map].
23rd July 1907. Godfrey Bingley (age 65). Wenlock Priory, Shropshire [Map].
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
23rd July 1907. Godfrey Bingley (age 65). Stokesay Castle, Shropshire [Map].
In 1927 Godfrey Bingley (age 84) died.