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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Thomas Gibson is in Painters.
Around 1680 Thomas Gibson was born.
Before 2nd September 1692 Thomas Gibson (age 12). Portrait of Sarah Alston Duchess Somerset (age 50).
Sarah Alston Duchess Somerset: In 1642 she was born to Edward Alston. In 1656 John Seymour 4th Duke of Somerset and she were married. He the son of William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset and Frances Devereux Duchess of Somerset. On 12th December 1671 William Seymour 3rd Duke of Somerset died. His uncle John succeeded 4th Duke Somerset, 3rd Marquess Hertford, 4th Earl Hertford, 4th Baron Beauchamp of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset. She by marriage Duchess Somerset. On 2nd September 1692 Sarah Alston Duchess Somerset died.
Around 1715 Thomas Gibson (age 35). Portrait of Edward Russell 1st Earl Orford (age 62).
Around 1715 Thomas Gibson (age 35). Portrait of Edward Russell 1st Earl Orford (age 62).
Before 1720 Thomas Gibson (age 39). Portrait of Henrietta Hobart Countess Suffolk (age 30).
Around 1720 Thomas Gibson (age 40). Portrait of George Vertue (age 36).
Before 1737 Thomas Gibson (age 56). Portrait of Archbishop William Wake (age 79).
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.'
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Before 1751 Thomas Gibson (age 70). Portrait of Mary Joanna Cutts Revett (age 43).
Mary Joanna Cutts Revett: In 1707 she was born to Colonel Edmund Revett. Before 31st October 1741 Charles Russell and she were married. In 1764 she died.
On 28th April 1751 Thomas Gibson (age 71) died.