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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." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Birds is in Animals.
Heraldry, Terms, Animals, Birds, Beaked and Membered
Heraldry, Terms, Animals, Birds, Cocks
Cockayne Arms. Argent, three cocks gules with legs, beaks, etc. sable. Source.
Heraldry, Terms, Animals, Birds, Cornish Chough
Heraldry, Terms, Animals, Birds, Doves
Heraldry, Terms, Animals, Birds, Eagle
All About History Books
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.
Acheson Arms. Argent, a double-headed eagle displayed sable, beaked and membered or, on a chief vert, two mullets or. Source.
Beckford Arms. Per pale, gules and azure, on a chevron argent between three martlets or, an eagle displayed sable. Source.
Godolphin Arms. Gules, an eagle with two heads, displayed between three fleur de lys, two and one, argent.
Joigny Arms. Gules, an eagle argent. Source.
Maxwell Arms. Argent, a two headed eagle displayed sable beaked and membered gules on an inescutcheon argent a saltire sable charged with a hedgehog or. Source.
Child Villiers Arms. Quarterly 1&4 
Villiers Arms and 2&3 Child Arms gules a chevron engrailed ermine between three eaglets argent gorged or. Source.
Heraldry, Terms, Animals, Birds, Mallard
Brassey Arms. Per fess indented sable and argent, in the first quarter a mallard of the second. Source.
Heraldry, Terms, Animals, Birds, Owl
Oldham Arms. Sable, a chevron or between three owls argent on a chief of the second three roses gules. Possibly an example of canting arms where owl represents owl-dam. Source.
Heraldry, Terms, Animals, Birds, Parrot
Lumley Arms. Argent a fess gules between three parrots vert, collared of the second. Source.
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