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In 1070 Bishop Osmund 1st Earl Dorset was appointed Lord Chancellor.
Around 1078 Bishop Maurice was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1085 Archbishop Gerard was appointed Lord Chancellor.
Before January 1091 Bishop Roger Bloet was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1162 Bishop Geoffrey Ridel was appointed Lord Chancellor which office he held until 1173.
In 1189 Bishop William Longchamp was appointed Lord Chancellor for which office he had paid £3000.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1226 Bishop Ralph Neville was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1260 Bishop Nicholas Ely was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 25th February 1264 Bishop Thomas Cantilupe (age 46) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
After 10th August 1265 Archbishop Walter Giffard (age 40) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1266 Godfrey Giffard Bishop of Worcester (age 31) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1274 Bishop Robert Burnell (age 35) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
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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 1292 Bishop John Langton was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1307 Bishop John Langton was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 6th July 1310 Archbishop Walter Reynolds was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Chancellor.
On 20th August 1323 Robert de Baldock was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1328 Bishop Henry Burghesh (age 36) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 28th November 1330 John de Straford (age 55) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 6th June 1335 John de Straford (age 60) was appointed Lord Chancellor for the second time.
In March 1338 Bishop Robert de Strafford (age 46) was appointed Lord Chancellor which office he held until July 1338.
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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.
On 6th July 1338 Bishop Richard de Wentworth was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 28th April 1340 John de Straford (age 65) was appointed Lord Chancellor for the third time.
On 14th December 1340 Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 15th December 1340 Robert Parning was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1349 Cardinal John of Thoresby was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1356 Bishop William Evendon was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1367 Bishop William of Wykeham (age 47) was appointed Lord Chancellor which post he resigned in 1371.
In January 1380 Archbishop Simon Sudbury (age 64) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 20th September 1382 Bishop Robert Braybrooke was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1383 Michael de la Pole 1st Earl Suffolk (age 53) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1386 Archbishop Thomas Fitzalan aka Arundel (age 33) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
After 4th March 1389 Bishop Edmund Stafford (age 45) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1391 Archbishop Thomas Fitzalan aka Arundel (age 38) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1403 Cardinal Henry Beaufort (age 28) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1407 Archbishop Thomas Fitzalan aka Arundel (age 54) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
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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 1424 Cardinal Henry Beaufort (age 49) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1432 Archbishop John Stafford was appointed Lord Chancellor which position he held until 1450.
On 27th March 1454 Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York (age 42) was appointed Lord Protector. Richard Neville Earl Salisbury (age 54) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
Around 1455 Thomas Browne (age 53) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In January 1455 Richard Neville Earl Salisbury (age 55) resigned as Lord Chancellor.
In March 1455 Cardinal Thomas Bourchier (age 37) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 25th July 1460 Archbishop George Neville (age 28) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 20th June 1467 Bishop Robert Stillington (age 47) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
After 14th April 1471 Bishop Robert Stillington (age 51) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 18th June 1473 Bishop Robert Stillington (age 53) resigned as Lord Chancellor.
On 27th July 1473 Archbishop Lawrence Booth (age 53) was appointed Lord Chancellor serving until May 1474.
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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 1475 Archbishop Thomas Rotherham (age 51) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In June 1475 Bishop John Alcock (age 45) was appointed Lord Chancellor which office he held until Sep 1475.
On 13th May 1483 Bishop John Russell was appointed Lord Chancellor. He replaced Archbishop Thomas Rotherham (age 59).
In October 1485 Bishop John Alcock (age 55) was appointed Lord Chancellor which office he held until Mar 1487.
In 1487 Cardinal John Morton (age 67) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In October 1529 Thomas More (age 51) was appointed Lord Chancellor by King Henry VIII of England and Ireland (age 38).
In 1533 Bishop Stephen Gardiner (age 50) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 26th January 1533 Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley Walden (age 45) was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. and Lord Chancellor as well.
In 1547 Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (age 50) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 20th December 1551 Bishop Thomas Goodrich was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1555 Archbishop Nicholas Heath (age 54) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1579 Thomas Bromley (age 49) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1603 Thomas Egerton 1st Viscount Brackley (age 63) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 21st February 1637 Philip Yorke 1st Earl of Hardwicke was appointed Lord Chancellor which position he held until 19th November 1756.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
John Evelyn's Diary. 2nd March 1665. I went with his Majesty (age 34) into the lobby behind the House of Lords, where I saw the King and the rest of the Lords robe themselves, and got into the House of Lords in a corner near the woolsack, on which the Lord Chancellor sits next below the throne: the King sat in all the regalia, the crown-imperial on his head, the sceptre and globe, etc. The Duke of Albemarle (age 56) bore the sword, the Duke of Ormond (age 54), the cap of dignity. The rest of the Lords robed in their places:-a most splendid and august convention. Then came the Speaker and the House of Commons (age 48), and at the bar made a speech, and afterward presented several bills, a nod only passing them, the clerk saying, Le Roy le veult, as to public bills, as to private, Soit faite commeil est desirè. Then, his Majesty made a handsome but short speech, commanding my Lord Privy Seal (age 59) to prorogue the Parliament, which he did, the Chancellor (age 56) being ill and absent. I had not before seen this ceremony.
John Evelyn's Diary. 15th August 1673. Came to visit me my Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury (age 52).
In 1675 Heneage Finch 1st Earl Nottingham (age 53) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
John Evelyn's Diary. 23rd January 1683. Sir Francis North (age 45), son to the Lord North, and Lord Chief Justice, being made Lord Keeper on the death of the Earl of Nottingham, the Lord Chancellor, I went to congratulate him. He is a most knowing, learned, and ingenious man, and, besides being an excellent person, of an ingenious and sweet disposition, very skillful in music, painting, the new philosophy, and politer studies.
John Evelyn's Diary. 31st October 1685. I din'd at our greate Lord Chancellor Jefferies (age 40), who us'd me with much respect. This was the late Chief Justice who had newly ben the Western Circuit to try the Monmouth conspirators, and had formerly don such severe justice amongst the obnoxious in Westmr Hall [Map], for which his Ma* (age 52) dignified him by creating him first a Baron, and now Lord Chancellor. He had some years past ben conversant at Deptford; is of an assur'd and undaunted spirit, and has serv'd the Court interest on all the hardiest occasions; is of nature cruel and a slave of the Court.
John Evelyn's Diary. 24th April 1700. This week there was a great change of State officers. The Duke of Shrewsbury (age 39) resigned his Lord Chamberlainship to the Earl of Jersey (age 44), the Duke's indisposition requiring his retreat. Mr. Vernon (age 54), Secretary of State, was put out. The Seal was taken from the Lord Chancellor Somers (age 49), though he had been acquitted by a great majority of votes for what was charged against him in the House of Commons. This being in term time, put some stop to business, many eminent lawyers refusing to accept the office, considering the uncertainty of things in this fluctuating conjuncture. It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excellent lawyer, very learned in all polite literature, a superior pen, master of a handsome style, and of easy conversation; but he is said to make too much haste to be rich, as his predecessor, and most in place in this age did, to a more prodigious excess than was ever known. But the Commons had now so mortified the Court party, and property and liberty were so much invaded in all the neighboring kingdoms, that their jealousy made them cautious, and every day strengthened the law which protected the people from tyranny.
On 1st June 1725 Peter King 1st Baron King (age 56) was appointed Lord Chancellor. He
In 1830 Henry Brougham 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (age 51) was appointed Lord Chancellor.