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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.
On 11th June 1851 Mary Augusta Arnold was born at Hobart, Tasmania.
On 6th April 1872 Thomas Humphry Ward (age 26) and Mary Augusta Arnold (age 20) were married.
1889. Julian Russell Story (age 31). Portrait of Mrs Humhprey Ward i.e. Mary Augusta Arnold (age 37).
1894. W and D Downey. Photograph of Mary Augusta Arnold (age 42).
In 1908 Mary Augusta Arnold (age 56) became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League.
On 24th March 1920 Mary Augusta Arnold (age 68) died at 4 Connaught Square, Bayswater.
On 6th May 1926 [her former husband] Thomas Humphry Ward (age 80) died.