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Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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On 18th November 1882 Percy Wyndham Lewis was born to [his father] Charles Edward Lewis and [his mother] Anne Stuart Prickett, reputedly on his father's yacht off the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. He parents separated when he was around eleven years old at which time he returned to England with his mother and began his education at Rugby School, and after, aged 16, the Slade School of Art.
1912. Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 29). "The Dancers".
1913. George Charles Beresford (age 48). Portrait of Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 30).
1917. George Charles Beresford (age 52). Portrait of Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 34).
In January 1917 Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 34) was posted to the newly-raised 330th Siege Battery, RGA. 330th Siege Battery embarked on 24 May 1917 for the Western Front. It served on the Flanders coast and then at Ypres during the Third Ypres offensive. Much of Lewis's time was spent in Forward Observation Posts looking down at apparently deserted German lines, registering targets and calling down fire from batteries massed around the rim of the Ypres Salient.
1921. Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 38). Self-portrait as Tyro.
1923-1935. Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 40). Portrait of Edith Sitwell (age 35).
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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1929. George Charles Beresford (age 64). Portrait of Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 46).
1939. Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 56). Portrait of Ezra Pound.
1946. Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 63). Portrait of Nigel Trevithick Tangye (age 36).
On 7th March 1957 Percy Wyndham Lewis (age 74) died.