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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 Salisbury is in Member Parliament.
On 6th May 1523 Robert Keilway (age 40) was elected MP Salisbury.
In 1547 John Thynne (age 32) was elected MP Salisbury.
In 1571 John Eyre (age 46) was elected MP Salisbury.
In 1628 Roger Palmer (age 51) was elected MP Salisbury.
In November 1661 Stephen Fox (age 34) was elected MP Salisbury.
In 1685 Stephen Fox (age 57) was elected MP Salisbury.
In 1698 Charles Fox (age 37) was elected MP Salisbury. He was re-elected on 9th July 1701, in December 1701, 1702, 1705, 1708, 1710 and 31st August 1713 until his death on 21st September 1713.
In 1734 Henry Hoare "The Magnificient" (age 28) was elected MP Salisbury.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1741 Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone (age 46) was elected MP Salisbury.
In 1747 Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone (age 52) was elected MP Salisbury.
In 1802 William Pleydell-Bouverie 3rd Earl Radnor (age 22) was elected MP Salisbury.
In 1828 Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (age 47) was elected MP Salisbury.
In 1833 Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (age 52) was elected MP Salisbury.
In January 1847 William James Chaplin (age 60) was elected MP Salisbury at a by-election which seat he held until 1857.