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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In 1529 Nicholas Hare [aged 45] was elected MP Downton.
In March 1553 William Thomas was elected MP Downton.
In 1554 James Bassett [aged 28] was elected MP Downton.
In 1572 Edward St Lo [aged 53] was elected MP Downton.
In 1722 John Verney [aged 22] was elected MP Downton.
In May 1741 John Verney [aged 41] was elected MP Downton.
In 1774 Philip Hales 5th Baronet [aged 39] was elected MP Downton. His brother-in-law Anthony Duncombe 1st Baron Feversham was influential in the result. He was successful only after petitioning against the original result; he took his seat in February 1775.
In December 1779 Bartholomew Bouverie [aged 26] was elected MP Downton, but was unseated on petition already in February of the following year.
In 1790 Bartholomew Bouverie [aged 36] was elected MP Downton which seat he held until 1796.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In 1801 William Pleydell-Bouverie 3rd Earl Radnor [aged 21] was elected MP Downton.
In 1803 Charles Marsham 2nd Earl Romney [aged 25] was elected MP Downton.
In 1806 Bartholomew Bouverie [aged 52] was elected MP Downton which seat he held until 1812.
In 1806 Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie [aged 25] was elected MP Downton.
In April 1813 Thomas Brooke-Pechell 2nd Baronet [aged 60] was elected MP Downton which seat he held until 1818.
In 1819 Bartholomew Bouverie [aged 65] was elected MP Downton which seat he held until Jun 1826.
In February 1819 Thomas Brooke-Pechell 2nd Baronet [aged 66] was elected MP Downton which seat he held until 1826.
In 1826 Bartholomew Bouverie [aged 72] was elected MP Downton which seat he held until 1830.
In 1832 Philip Pleydell-Bouverie [aged 43] was elected MP Downton.