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MP Barnstaple is in Member Parliament. See Barnstaple, Devon.
In October 1553 Robert Carey (age 38) was elected MP Barnstaple.
In 1559 John Chichester was elected MP Barnstaple.
In 1563 Arthur Bassett (age 22) was elected MP Barnstaple.
In 1571 Peter Wentworth (age 42) was elected MP Barnstaple.
In 1584 John Peryan of Exeter (age 43) was elected MP Barnstaple.
In 1661 John Chichester 1st Baronet (age 37) was elected MP Barnstaple which seat he held until 1667.
In 1689 Arthur Chichester 3rd Baronet (age 29) was elected MP Barnstaple which seat he held until 1690.
In 1713 Arthur Chichester 3rd Baronet (age 53) was elected MP Barnstaple which seat he held until 1718.
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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 1734 John Chichester 4th Baronet (age 45) was elected MP Barnstaple which seat he held until 1740.
In 1740 John Francis Bassett (age 26) was elected MP Barnstaple.