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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.
William Brodie 1815-1881 is in Sculptors.
On 22nd January 1815 William Brodie was born.
Around 1830. John Phillip (age 12), Portrait of William Brodie (age 14).
On 12th June 1841 William Brodie (age 26) and Helen Chisholm (age 24) were married at Old Machar, Aberdeen.
After 1858. South Aisle, Edinburgh Cathedral [Map]. Memorial to the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders who died during the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58 sculpted by William Brodie (age 42).
Around 1865. John Phillip (age 47), Portrait of William Brodie (age 49).
On 30th October 1881 William Brodie (age 66) died at his home 9 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh [Map]. He was buried at Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.
On 8th August 1886 [his former wife] Helen Chisholm (age 69) died. She was buried at Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.