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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Abraham Solomon is in Painters.
On 7th May 1823 Abraham Solomon was born to [his father] Michael Meyer Solomon.
1857. Abraham Solomon [aged 33]. "Waiting for the Verdict".
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1855-1857. 7th April 1857. Went to Solomon's [aged 33]. He has a grand picture, "Waiting for the Verdict." Saw some remarkable designs by his young brother (Simeon [aged 16]) showing much Rossetti-like feeling.
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1858. 19th February 1858. February 19. Solomon's [aged 34] weekly re-union. Tea and fish, wine and cake. Much interested with a book of sketches by young [his brother] Simeon [aged 17].
On 10th May 1860 Abraham Solomon [aged 37] and Ella Hart were married.
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1861. May 29. Went down to Epsom by rail and walked to the course. Met Woolner [aged 35] and a brother sculptor, Burnett, John [aged 31] and William [aged 33] Millais, Mr. Abraham Salomon [aged 38] and [his wife] Mrs. Abraham Salomon and Miss Salomon. Tom Taylor and a lady. When the 18 horses were running for the Derby Stakes and I and Woolner and Burnett were against the ropes on the side the horses took, and we were struck by the thunder and tramping rush of their progress—that was in truth a sublime moment. In the evening adiourned to Cremorne which was densely thronged by men and women in all states of hilarity and inebricty. Met Munro [aged 35] and Ormsby, Poynter, Du Maurier, Millais and Jopling and others.
On 19th December 1862 Abraham Solomon [aged 39] died.