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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.
MP Bramber is in Member Parliament.
In 1467 Roger Townshend (age 42) was elected MP Bramber.
In 1621 Thomas Bowyer 1st Baronet (age 34) was elected MP Bramber which seat he held until 1626.
In 1629 Thomas Bowyer 1st Baronet (age 42) was elected MP Bramber.
In April 1640 Thomas Bowyer 1st Baronet (age 53) was elected MP Bramber.
After November 1640 Thomas Bowyer 1st Baronet (age 53) was elected MP Bramber at a by-elected - the election in Nov 1640 had been declared void.
In 1660 Edward Eversfield (age 42) was elected MP Bramber which seat he held until 1661.
In 1741 Thomas Archer 1st Baron Archer (age 45) was elected MP Bramber.
In 1754 George Cholmondeley (age 29) was elected MP Bramber.
In 1761 Andrew Archer 2nd Baron Archer (age 24) was elected MP Bramber during the General Election.
n 1761 William Fitzherbert (age 49) was elected MP Bramber which seat he held until April 1762.
In 1788 Robert Hobart (age 27) was elected MP Bramber which seat he held until 1790. He sat concurrently in the Houses of Commons of Ireland and Great Britain.