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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.
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1869 is in The Diary of George Price Boyce.
9th January 1869. Mary Leslie1 came to sit to me.
Note 1. Probably for the picture "Pensosa d'altrui".
10th April 1869. Mr. J. R. Davidson called to look at my drawings and bought my large "Bridewell Precincts" for £60 and the little head of Mary Leslie ("Pensiero d'Altrui") for 20 gns. In the evening called on Burne-Jones (Gabriel Rossetti came in). Mrs. Jones sang several things of Gliick and Beethoven and Schubert, and charmed us in this way till nearly 1 o'clock. Rossetti and I returned together."