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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.
South Aisle, Edinburgh Cathedral is in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
South Aisle, Edinburgh Cathedral [Map]. Memorial to the 78th Highland Regiment who had been posted to Sinde and who were tragically affected by Cholera.
"To the memory of two officers, twenty one serjeants, twenty seven corporals, nine drummers, four hundred and thirty nine privatess, forty seven women and one hundred and twenty four children, of the Seventy Eighth Highland Regiment in all amounting to six hundred and sixty nine, who died on the banks of the River Indus in Sinde, between the sixth day of September one thousand and eight hundred and forty four, and the fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty five.
Sculpted by John Steell (age 45), 1850. See Captain Keogh's Diary, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 76 and The Asiatic Journal and Montly Miscellany
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).
After 1881. South Aisle, Edinburgh Cathedral [Map]. Memorial to the men of the 93rd Gordon Highlanders who lost theoir lives in Afghanistan and South Africa.
After 1902. South Aisle, Edinburgh Cathedral [Map]. Boer War Memorial to The Royal Scots.
On 9th May 1909 a memorial at the South Aisle, Edinburgh Cathedral [Map] to General William Lockhart by sculptor George Frampton (age 48) was unveiled by General Edward Pemberton Leach (age 62).
General William Lockhart: On 2nd September 1841 he was born to Reverend Laurence Lockhart. On 18th March 1900 General William Lockhart died of malaria. His funeral occurred the following day and the service was taken by James Welldon the Bishop of Calcutta, and former headmaster of Harrow School. Lockhart's good friend and Viceroy Lord Curzon attended.
After 1918. South Aisle, Edinburgh Cathedral [Map]. WWI Memorial to the 4th Battalion Royal Scots - Queen's Edinburgh Rifles who died in the Battle of Gully Ravine (Sachir Dere), Gallipoli Peninsular on the 28 June 1915.
After 1918. South Aisle, Edinburgh Cathedral [Map]. WWI Memorial to the 5th Battalion Royal Scots - Queen's Edinburgh Rifles sculpted by Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson (age 30).
After 1918. South Aisle, Edinburgh Cathedral [Map]. WWI Memorial to the Ninth Battalion (Highlanders) The Royal Scots.
After 1918. South Aisle, Edinburgh Cathedral [Map]. WWI Memorial to the Sixth Battalion The Royal Scots.