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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.
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MP Callington is in Member Parliament.
In 1621 James Wriothesley (age 15) was elected MP Callington.
In 1626 Thomas Jermyn (age 53) was elected MP Callington.
In November 1640 Arthur Ingram (age 75) was elected MP Callington
In 1660 John Coryton 1st Baronet (age 38) was elected MP Callington in a by-election.
In 1660 Allen Brodrick (age 36) was elected MP Callington and MP Orford. He chose to sit for MP Orford.
In 1661 Henry Bennet 1st Earl Arlington (age 43) was elected MP Callington.
In February 1679 John Coryton 1st Baronet (age 57) was elected MP Callington.
In 1681 William Coryton 3rd Baronet (age 30) was elected MP Callington.
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Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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In 1685 John Coryton 2nd Baronet (age 36) was elected MP Callington in which year he was unseated.
In 1685 William Coryton 3rd Baronet (age 34) was elected MP Callington which seat he held until 1687.
In 1689 John Coryton 2nd Baronet (age 40) was elected MP Callington which seat he held until death the next year.
In 1695 William Coryton 3rd Baronet (age 44) was elected MP Callington which seat he held until 1701.
In November 1703 William Coryton 3rd Baronet (age 53) was elected MP Callington which seat he held until his death in 1711.
In April 1810 William Stephen Poyntz (age 40) was elected MP Callington.
In 1831 Henry Bingham-Baring (age 26) was elected MP Callington.