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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On 8th July 1822 William Lindsay Windus was born to [his father] John Windus and [his mother] Agnes Meek in Liverpool. He was baptised on 15th September 1822
1840-1845. William Lindsay Windus (age 17). Self-portrait.
Around 1849. William Lindsay Windus (age 26). "The Interview of the Apostate Shaxton, Bishop of Salisbury, with Anne Askew".
1856. William Lindsay Windus (age 33). "Burd Helen".
1858. William Lindsay Windus (age 35). "Too Late". The picture was bought by Windus’ patron, a tobacco merchant named John Miller and is now in the possession of the Tate. In the picture the woman on the left is dying from consumption and a broken heart. Her errant lover has returned, but too late for them to enjoy any time together. Ruskin condemned it ‘as the product of sickness, temper, and dimmed sight,’ a criticism which so pained Windus that he never sent to the Academy again.
In 1858 William Lindsay Windus (age 35) and Mary Tonge were married.
On 8th September 1862 [his wife] Mary Tonge died.
1864. William Lindsay Windus (age 41). "The Baa Lamb: View on a Tributary of the River Duddon".
On 9th October 1907 William Lindsay Windus (age 85) died.