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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 Southampton is in Member Parliament.
In 1572 Henry Wallop (age 32) was elected MP Southampton.
In 1581 Fulk Greville 13th Baron Latimer 5th Baron Willoughby 1st Baron Brooke (age 26) was elected MP Southampton.
In 1624 John Mill 1st Baronet (age 36) was elected MP Southampton. He was re-elected in 1625 and 1626.
In April 1640 John Mill 1st Baronet (age 52) was elected MP Southampton.
In 1661 Richard Ford (age 47) was elected MP Southampton.
In 1729 William Heathcote 1st Baronet (age 35) was elected MP Southampton.
In 1780 Hans Sloane Stanley (age 40) was elected MP Southampton.
In 1784 James Amyatt of Freemantle in Hampshire (age 49) was elected MP Southampton which seat he held until 1806.
In 1841 James Bruce 12th Earl Kincardine 8th Earl Elgin (age 29) was elected MP Southampton but the election was declared void on petition.
In 1862 Colonel William Anderson Rose (age 41) was elected MP Southampton.