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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.
A History of the County of Brecknockshire is in Victorian Books.
A History of the Couty of Brecknockshire By Theophilus Jones, Deputy Registrar of the Archdry of Brecon.
Victorian Books, A History of the County of Brecknockshire Volume 2
Victorian Books, A History of the County of Brecknockshire Volume 2 Part 2
This Cromlech [Gwernvale Long Barrow [Map]], one end of which adjoined the Brecon turnpike road on the south side, was immediately opposite Gwernvale, about half a mile from Crickhowel: it consisted as usual of a huge tablet of unhewn stone mounted upon five supporters pitched edgewise in the ground, the superincumbent stone or cover, inclining to the south and open in the front to the north: it was placed on a high mound, long overrun with brush wood and brambles, and formerly there seem to have been stones placed edgewise, also round what is now almost a semicircle; whether before the turnpike road was made, they extended so as to describe an irregular circle, I know not, but I am inclined to think that the appearance of the spot was materially altered by the intersection of the highway, and that upon that occasion the workmen, either from curiosity or accident, anticipated our attempt to make discoveries under the Cromlech; in that case the object, though far different from ours, was probably equally unsuccessful .