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High Sheriff of Cornwall is in High Sheriff.
In 1505 John Godolphin was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1531 Christopher Tredinnick was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1541 John Arundell (age 41) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1547 John Trelawny of Poole in Cornwall (age 43) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1549 William Godolphin (age 34) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1560 John Trelawny of Poole in Cornwall (age 56) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1561 John Trelawny was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1567 John Trelawny was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1568 William Godolphin (age 53) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1573 John Arundell was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1580 Francis Godolphin (age 40) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
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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 1583 Richard Carew (age 27) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1585 John Wrey of North Russell was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1586 Richard Carew (age 30) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1595 Johnathan Trelawny (age 26) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1598 William Wrey 1st Baronet was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1604 Francis Godolphin (age 64) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1613 William Coryton (age 33) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1638 Francis Godolphin (age 32) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1660 Colonel Piers Edgecumbe (age 51) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1683 John Coryton 2nd Baronet (age 34) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1694 John Tregagle (age 20) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1793 Francis Glanville (age 30) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1811 William Lewis Trelawny aka Salusbury-Trelawny 8th Baronet (age 29) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1849 Samuel Thomas Spry (age 44) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
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 1851 William Williams 1st Baronet (age 59) was appointed Deputy Warden of the Stannaries, High Sheriff of Cornwall and Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.
In 1899 Lewis William Molesworth 11th Baronet (age 45) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1922 Hugh Molesworth-St Aubyn 13th Baronet (age 56) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
In 1947 John Carew Pole 12th Baronet (age 44) was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
William Godolphin was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.
William Botreaux was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.