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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 Saltash is in Member Parliament.
In October 1553 Richard Weston (age 26) was elected MP Saltash.
In 1563 Thomas Carew (age 36) was elected MP Saltash.
In 1584 Richard Carew (age 28) was elected MP Saltash.
In 1586 George Carew was elected MP Saltash.
In 1586 John Acland (age 34) was elected MP Saltash.
In 1588 George Carew was elected MP Saltash.
In 1593 George Carew was elected MP Saltash.
In 1622 Thomas Smythe (age 64) was elected MP Saltash.
In 1690 John Carew 3rd Baronet (age 54) was elected MP Saltash.
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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.
On 7th December 1708 Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet (age 29) was elected MP Saltash at a by-election.
In 1710 Cholmley Dering 4th Baronet (age 30) was elected for both MP Kent and MP Saltash. He chose to sit for Kent.
On 17th January 1711 William Carew 5th Baronet (age 20) was elected MP Saltash.
In 1807 Richard Griffin 3rd Baron Braybrook (age 23) was elected MP Saltash.
In 1830 Henry Vane 2nd Duke Cleveland (age 41) was elected MP Saltash which seat he held until 1831.