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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.'
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Edward Robert Hughes is in Painters.
Before 5th November 1851 [his father] Edward Hughes (age 23) and [his mother] Harriet Foord (age 25) were married. His brother [his uncle] Arthur Hughes (age 19) would marry to her younger sister [his aunt] Tryphena Foord (age 22). An example of Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings.
On 5th November 1851 Edward Robert Hughes was born to [his father] Edward Hughes (age 23) and [his mother] Harriet Foord (age 25) at 29 Wilmington Square, Clerkenwell. His uncle was the painter [his uncle] Arthur Hughes (age 19).
1871. Edward Robert Hughes (age 19). "Evensong".
1872. Edward Robert Hughes (age 20). "A Rainy Sunday" aka "Sabbath Morn".
1873. Edward Robert Hughes (age 21). Portrait of Caroline Hill.
1873. [his uncle] Arthur Hughes (age 40). Portrait of the artists's nephew Edward Robert Hughes (age 21).
1874. Edward Robert Hughes (age 22). Portrait of Gray Hill.
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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.
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1875. Edward Robert Hughes (age 23). "A Young Beauty".
1880. Edward Robert Hughes (age 28). "Landscape with Trees".
In 1883 Edward Robert Hughes (age 31) and Emily Eliza Davies (age 37) were married.
1887. Edward Robert Hughes (age 35). "Portrait of a Lady". Possibly Florence Jane Helen Wellesley Baroness Nunburnholme (age 34).
1888 to 1905. William Holman Hunt (age 60) assisted by Edward Robert Hughes (age 36). "Lady of Shalott. Part 3 Stanza 5: "Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack'd from side to side".
1892. Edward Robert Hughes (age 40). "Portrait of a Lady". Possibly Lucy Cecilia Dunn-Garnder Countess Scarborough.
Lucy Cecilia Dunn-Garnder Countess Scarborough: she was born to Cecil Mina Dunn-Gardner. In 1887 Robert Ashton and she were married. On 8th April 1899 Aldred Beresford Lumley 10th Earl Scarborough and she were married at Christ Church, Mayfair. She by marriage Countess of Scarborough. He the son of Richard Lumley 9th Earl Scarborough and Adeliza Drummond Countess Scarborough. On 24th December 1931 she died.
1893. Edward Robert Hughes (age 41). Portrait of Adele Beach Grant Countess Essex (age 26).
An Artist's Reminiscences Chapter 8. I was fortunate enough to have some beautiful ladies in my Florentine and Venetian groups. Miss Lisa Stillmann (age 29) was Fiammetta. Miss Galloway of Manchester was the Paris Bordone lady. Miss Lisa Lehmann (age 32) was my Beatrice. (Mr. Stock, R.I., the artist, was an admirable Dante.) Mr. W. A. S. Benson was Niccolo Pisano. My wife [Mary Frances Andrews (age 48)] took the part of Laura. My little daughter was an early Italian angel. My eldest son personated the young Giotto, and I represented Cimabue myself, in the white costume in which Leighton painted him, taken from the fresco of Simone Memmi at Florence.
Sir James Linton was Veronese in my Venetian group, the late Mr. J. H. Mole, R.I., personating Titian. The late Mr. John O'Connor made an excellent Michael Angelo, and Mr. E. R. Hughes (age 43) presented a lifelike and artistic portrait of the young Raphael.
Around 1895. Edward Robert Hughes (age 43). "Oh, What's That in the Hollow?".
1895. Edward Robert Hughes (age 43). "Bertuccio's Bride".
Bertuccio uses his inheritance to ransom the body of a man from his murderers, and to free a maiden from robbers. The maiden turns out to be a princess, who makes a contract of betrothal with him before she returns to her kingdom. Bertuccio then meets a mysterious knight, with whom he changes clothes, and goes in quest of his bride. When he is returning home with her, they meet the knight again, and Bertuccio offers to divide with the knight the wedding gifts, in return for the help which the knight provided. However, the knight turns out to be the spirit of the murdered man, whose body he ransomed, and declines the gifts.
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The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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1896. Edward Robert Hughes (age 44). "Diana's Maidens" aka "A Coward".
1896. Edward Robert Hughes (age 44). "The Shrew Katherina".
1896. Edward Robert Hughes (age 44). "Summer Fantasy".
1898. Edward Robert Hughes (age 46). Portrait of Laura Gwendolen Galton (age 38) and her son Alvery Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne (age 5).
Laura Gwendolen Galton: Around 1860 she was born to Douglas Strutt Galton. In 1892 Frederick Richard Thomas Trench-Gascoigne and she were married. On 10th July 1949 she died.
Alvery Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne: In 1893 he was born to Frederick Richard Thomas Trench-Gascoigne and Laura Gwendolen Galton.
Around 1901. Edward Robert Hughes (age 49). "The Princess out of School".
1902. Edward Robert Hughes (age 50). "Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie)".
1905. Edward Robert Hughes (age 53). "Wings of the Morning".
1905. Edward Robert Hughes (age 53). "Midsummer's Eve".
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Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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1907. Edward Robert Hughes (age 55). "Heart of Snow".
1911. Edward Robert Hughes (age 59). "Summer Fantasy".
1912. Edward Robert Hughes (age 60). "Night with her Train of Stars".
Before 1914. Edward Robert Hughes (age 62). "Day, and Night".
Before 1914. Edward Robert Hughes (age 62). "Reverie".
Before 1914. Edward Robert Hughes (age 62). "Idle Tears".
Before 1914. Edward Robert Hughes (age 62). "The Valkyrie's Vigil".
Before 1914. Edward Robert Hughes (age 62). "The Nymph Callisto".
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Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 23rd April 1914 Edward Robert Hughes (age 62) died at his home 3 Romeland after an operation for appendicitis. He was buried at Hatfield Road Cemetery, St Albans. His funeral in St Albans Cathedral [Map] was the largest ever held there, attended by his many friends, fellow artists, and pupils from his life-drawing class in London.
On 8th February 1925 [his former wife] Emily Eliza Davies (age 79) died. She was buried at Hatfield Road Cemetery, St Albans.
GrandFather: Edward Hughes
Father: Edward Hughes
GrandFather: Robert Foord
Mother: Harriet Foord