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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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William Kingdon Clifford 1845-1879

See Mathematicians.

In July 1844 [his father] William Clifford [aged 23] and [his step-mother] Frances Kingdon [aged 24] were married.

On 4th May 1845 William Kingdon Clifford was born to William Clifford [aged 24] at Exeter, Devon [Map] and [his step-mother] Frances Kingdon [aged 25].

In 1870, William Kingdon Clifford [aged 25] was part of an expedition to Italy to observe the solar eclipse of 22 December 1870. During that voyage he survived a shipwreck along the Sicilian coast.

In 1874 William Kingdon Clifford [aged 28] was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

On 7th April 1875 William Kingdon Clifford [aged 29] and Lucy Lane [aged 28] were married. They had two children.

In 1876 William Kingdon Clifford [aged 30] published "On the Space-Theory of Matter".

In 1878 William Kingdon Clifford [aged 32] published "Elements of Dynamic: An Introduction to the Study of Motion And Rest In Solid And Fluid Bodies".

1878. John Collier [aged 27]. Portrait of William Kingdon Clifford [aged 32].

In 1878 [his father] William Clifford [aged 57] died.

On 3rd March 1879 William Kingdon Clifford [aged 33] died at Madeira to which he had travelled for his health. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery.

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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 21st April 1929 [his former wife] Lucy Lane [aged 82] died.