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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.
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 is in Painters.
On 23rd April 1775 Joseph Mallord William Turner was born to William Turner (age 30) and Mary Marshall at Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. He was baptised on 14th May 1775 at the St Paul's Church, Covent Garden. His father was a barber and wig maker.
Around 1785 [his mother] Mary Marshall, mother of Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 9), showed signs of mental disturbance from 1785 and was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in Old Street in 1799. She was moved in 1800 to Bethlem Hospital, a mental asylum, where she died in 1804.
1787. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 11). "Eton College [Map] from the Thames".
1787. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 11). "View of Nuneham Courtenay from the Thames".
1787. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 11). "Folly Bridge, Oxford and Bacon's Tower, Oxford".
After 1788. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 12). Walton Bridges [Map].
In 1789 Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 13) studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 15.
1789. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 13). "Radley Hall, Oxfordshire from the North-West".
1792. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 16). Tintern Abbey [Map]
1792. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 16). "The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol".
1793-4. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 17). St Briavels Castle [Map].
1795. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 19). Lincoln Cathedral [Map]
1798. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 22). Norham Castle [Map]: Sunrise.
1799. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 23). Notebook sketch of Stonehenge
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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.
1799. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 23). Notebook sketch of Stonehenge
1799. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 23). Warkworth Castle, Northumberland [Map]
Around 1800. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 24). Painting of Easby Abbey, Yorkshire [Map].
In 1804 [his mother] Mary Marshall died at Bethlem Hospital. Her son Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 28) was sent to his maternal uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, a butcher in Brentford, where Turner attended school.
1805. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 29). Kew Bridge [Map] and the River Thames, with Brentford Eyot in the Foreground and Strand-on-Green Seen through the Arches: Low Tide. From the Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14.
1810. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 34). "Cockermouth Castle [Map]".
Around 1822. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 46). Norham Castle [Map], on the River Tweed.
1828. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 52). Stonehenge
In 1829 [his father] William Turner (age 84) died.
After 7th January 1830. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 54). "Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (deceased): A Sketch from Memory". The day after the funeral he wrote to a friend: 'It is something to feel that gifted talent can be acknowledged by the many who yesterday waded up to their knees in snow and muck to see the funeral pomp swelled up by carriages of the great'.
Around 1834. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 58). Flint Castle [Map]
1838. John Linnell (age 45). Portrait of Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 62).
1845. Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 69). Norham Castle [Map]: Sunrise.
Around 1850. The house in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden where Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 74) was born.
On 19th December 1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 76) died of cholera at the home of Sophia Caroline Booth at 119 Cheyne Walk.
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1851. 30th December 1851. Called for John Seddon (age 24) at 10 0'clock, who accompanied me to St. Paul's Cathedral to witness Turner's (deceased) funeral. We first looked over the Cathedral and criticised the wretched taste of the greater part of the monuments, one by Behnes (age 56) seemed to be almost the only one that was simple, grand, and characteristic. The mourners, consisting of the Members of the Royal Academy and manv personal friends, alighted at the west entrance and advanced slowly to the choir preceded by the choristers, etc. Seddon and I obtained a central place in the choir, close to the coffn. The beautiful and awe-striking service for the dead was then gone through, its influence being much augmented by the sublimity of the scene. The body was then conveyed into the vaults, followed by the mourners. Father, who had brought Joanna (age 20), bought a ticket which admitted us all three into the vaults. I remained to see the stone rolled over him and to assist in adjusting the same—they first threw a basket full of human bones on and beside the coffn before rolling the stone over it. It was placed between the resting places of James Barry, the painter (next to which was that of Sir Joshua Reynolds), and Constantia, the great grand-daughter of Sir Christopher Wren, next to the tomb of Sir Christopher himself.