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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.
Oscar Gustave Rejlander 1813-1875 is in Photographers.
In 1813 Oscar Gustave Rejlander was born.
Around 1856 or 1860. Oscar Gustave Rejlander (age 43). Photograph of Julia Prinsep Jackson (age 9). Black and white albumen.
1862. Oscar Gustave Rejlander (age 49). Photograph of Alfred Tennyson 1st Baron Tennyson (age 52).
Before 1870. Possibly Oscar Gustave Rejlander (age 56). Photograph of Herbert Duckworth (age 56)..
Herbert Duckworth: In 1813 he was born. On 1st May 1867 he and Julia Prinsep Jackson were married at Tichurst, East Sussex, presumably at St Mary's Church, Ticehurst years. On 19th September 1870 he died from an undiagnosed internal abscess whilst he and his family were on hoiliday in Pembrokeshire. His wife Julia Prinsep Jackson was pregnant with their third child Gerald who was born six weeks later.
In 1875 Oscar Gustave Rejlander (age 62) died.