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In 1544 John Puckering was born at Flamborough.
On 10th April 1559 John Puckering (age 15) entered Lincoln's Inn.
On 15th January 1567 John Puckering (age 23) was called to the bar.
After 1573 [his son-in-law] Thomas Mildmay 1st Baronet and [his daughter] Elizabeth Puckering were married.
In 1580 John Puckering (age 36) was appointed Serjeant at Law.
Around 1580 [his daughter] Katherine Puckering was born to John Puckering (age 36).
In 1581 John Puckering (age 37) was elected MP Bedford.
On 23rd November 1585 John Puckering (age 41) was elected Speaker of the House of Commons.
On 1st March 1587 John Puckering (age 43) was asked by Peter Wentworth (age 58) to answer some questions regarding the liberties of the House. Puckering refused, but showed one of the questions to Thomas Heneage (age 55). Wentworth, and four other members of parliament who seconded his motion were imprisoned in the Tower of London [Map].
In 1588 John Puckering (age 44) was knighted.
In 1592 John Puckering (age 48) was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
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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.
In 1592 [his son] Thomas Puckering 1st Baronet was born to John Puckering (age 48).
On 30th April 1596 John Puckering (age 52) died.
[his daughter] Elizabeth Puckering was born to John Puckering.