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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 Lewes is in Member Parliament.
In 1491 Edmund Dudley (age 29) was elected MP Lewes.
In 1547 Walter Mildmay (age 26) was elected MP Lewes.
On 8th November 1547 Anthony Cooke (age 43) was elected MP Lewes.
In October 1553 Henry Hussey (age 34) was elected MP Lewes.
In April 1554 Robert Gage (age 50) was elected MP Lewes.
In 1584 Thomas Pelham 1st Baronet (age 44) was elected MP Lewes.
In 1621 George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 35) was elected MP Lewes.
In 1624 George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 38) was elected MP Lewes.
In 1625 George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 39) was elected MP Lewes.
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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 1626 George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 40) was elected MP Lewes.
In 1628 George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 42) was elected MP Lewes.
In 1628 George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 42) was created 1st Baron Goring at which time he ceased to be MP Lewes.
In 1802 Francis Osborne 1st Baron Godolphin (age 24) was elected MP Lewes.
In 1840 George John Frederick Sackville (age 25) was elected MP Lewes.
In 1885 Henry Aubrey-Fletcher 4th Baronet (age 49) was elected MP Lewes which seat he held until his death in 1910.