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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.
Bodmin, Devon is in Devon.
See: [Map], Lanhydrock, Bodmin.
Chronicles of London Vitellius A XVI. September 1497. Also this present moneth of Septembre landed in Cornewall Perkyn Werbek (age 23) wt iij smale Shippes only, and wt hym to the numbre of an hundreth or vj score persones, which entred ferther vnto a Towne called Bodman, where he was accompaned wt iij or iiij ml men of Rascayll and most parte naked men. And there proclaymed hym silf kyng Richard the iiijwth, And Second Son vnto kyng Edward the iiijwth late kyng of Englond.
In 1614 during the Addled Parliament Charles Thynne (age 46) was elected MP Lymington. John "Black Sir John" Egerton (age 63) was elected MP Lichfield. Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven (age 21) was elected MP Dorset. Richard Edgecumbe (age 44) was elected MP Bodmin.
In 1621 John Trevor (age 58) was elected MP Bodmin.
In 1624 Thomas Stafford (age 50) was elected MP Bodmin.
In 1624 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 24) was elected MP Bodmin.
In 1625 Thomas Stafford (age 51) was elected MP Bodmin.
In 1625 Henry Jermyn 1st Earl St Albans (age 19) was elected MP Bodmin.
In 1628 Robert Killigrew (age 48) was elected MP Bodmin.
In 1660 Hender Robartes (age 24) was elected MP Bodmin during the Convention Parliament.
In 1661 John Carew 3rd Baronet (age 25) was elected MP Bodmin.
On 8th May 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 30) summoned his second Parliament.
John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston (age 44) was elected MP Wallingford.
James Thynne (age 56) was elected MP Wiltshire.
Adam Browne 2nd Baronet (age 35) was elected MP Surrey.
Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 30) was elected MP Northumberland.
William Compton (age 36) was elected MP Cambridge.
Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry (age 32) was elected MP Camelford.
Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 61) was elected MP Bath and Heytesbury.
Edward Hungerford (age 28) was elected MP Chippenham.
Robert Pierrepont (age 24) was elected MP Nottingham.
John Melbury Sampford Strangeways (age 75) was elected MP Weymouth.
Giles Strangeways (age 45) was elected MP Dorset.
John Strangeways (age 24) was elected MP Bridport.
William Wyndham 1st Baronet (age 29) was elected MP Taunton.
James Herbert (age 38) was elected MP Queenborough.
William Alington 1st and 3rd Baron Alington (age 21) was elected MP Cambridge.
William Bowes of Streatlam (age 4) was elected MP Durham.
Robert Brooke (age 24) was elected MP Aldeburgh.
Josiah Child (age 30) was elected MP Dartmouth.
Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet (age 73) was elected MP Nottinghamshire.
Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew (age 37) was elected MP Brackley.
Richard Jennings (age 42) was elected MP St Albans.
Robert Kemp 2nd Baronet (age 33) was elected MP Norfolk.
Edward Phelips (age 48) was elected MP Somerset.
Robert Robartes (age 27) was elected MP Bossiney.
Hender Robartes (age 25) was elected MP Bodmin.
Clement Fisher 2nd Baronet (age 48) was elected MP Coventry.
William Portman 6th Baronet (age 17) was elected MP Taunton.
John Robinson 1st Baronet (age 46) was elected MP Rye.
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In 1689 John Cutler 1st Baronet (age 86) was elected MP Bodmin which seat he held until 1693.
In 1702 Francis Robartes (age 51) was elected MP Bodmin.
In 1710 Francis Robartes (age 59) was elected MP Bodmin.
On 26th February 1718 Charles Beauclerk 2nd Duke St Albans (age 21) was elected MP Bodmin.
On 9th February 1733 John Heathcote 2nd Baronet (age 44) was appointed MP Bodmin.
All About History Books
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 1807 William Oglander 6th Baronet (age 38) was elected MP Bodmin which seat he held until 1812.
In 1832 Samuel Thomas Spry (age 27) was elected MP Bodmin which seat he held until 1841.
In 1858 Edward Frederick Leveson-Gower (age 38) was elected MP Bodmin.
In 1900 Lewis William Molesworth 11th Baronet (age 46) was elected MP Bodmin which seat he held until 1906.
In January 1906 Thomas Agar-Robartes (age 25) was elected MP Bodmin but lost his seat in June 1906 following an election petition.
Lanhydrock, Bodmin, Devon, South-West England, British Isles
Around 1650 Letitia Robartes Countess Drogheda was born to John Robartes 1st Earl Radnor (age 44) and Letitia Isabella Smythe Countess Radnor (age 20) at Lanhydrock, Bodmin.
Before 6th January 1650 Francis Robartes was born to John Robartes 1st Earl Radnor (age 44) and Letitia Isabella Smythe Countess Radnor (age 20) at Lanhydrock, Bodmin.
Lanhydrock House, Bodmin, Devon, South-West England, British Isles
In 1620 John Robartes 1st Earl Radnor (age 14) bought at Lanhydrock House.
St Hydroc's Church, Lanhydrock, Bodmin, Devon, South-West England, British Isles
On 22nd December 1974 Arthur Victor Agar-Robartes 8th Viscount Clifden (age 87) died without male issue. He was buried at St Hydroc's Church, Lanhydrock. Viscount Clifden of Gowran in County Kilkenny, Baron Robartes of Lanhydrock and of Truro in Cornwall extinct. His fourth cousin once removed Shaun (age 29) succeeded 9th Baron Mendip of Mendip in Somerset.