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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 Thirsk is in Member Parliament.
In 1586 Henry Belasyse 1st Baronet (age 30) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1589 Henry Belasyse 1st Baronet (age 33) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1593 Henry Belasyse 1st Baronet (age 37) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1601 Henry Belasyse 1st Baronet (age 45) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1628 Christopher Wandesford (age 35) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1640 Thomas Ingram (age 25) was elected MP Thirsk.
On 6th October 1645 William Ayscough of Osgoodby (age 31) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1661 Walter Strickland (age 38) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1661 Thomas Ingram (age 46) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1671 William Frankland 1st Baronet (age 31) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1681 William Ayscough of Osgoodby (age 66) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1709 Leonard Smelt (age 26) was elected MP Thirsk.
On 22nd August 1713 Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet (age 28) was elected MP Thirsk during the 1713 General Election.
Between 22nd January 1715 and 9th March 1715 the 1715 General Election was held. The election had been caused by George I's (age 54) succession. The Whig party, which supported George I, won an overwhelming majority.
John Rushout 4th Baronet (age 29) was elected MP Malmesbury.
Leonard Smelt (age 32) was elected MP Northallerton.
Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet (age 30) was elected MP Thirsk.
George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter (age 57) was elected MP Whitchurch.
On 19th March 1722 Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet (age 37) was elected MP Thirsk during the 1722 General Election.
In 1727 Thomas Robinson 1st Baron Grantham (age 32) was elected MP Thirsk.
On 14th August 1727 Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet (age 42) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1747 Thomas Frankland 5th Baronet (age 28) was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1749 William Monckton aka Monckton-Arundell 2nd Viscount Galway (age 24) was elected MP Thirsk which seat he held until 1754.
In 1774 Thomas Frankland 6th Baronet (age 23) was elected MP Thirsk during the 1774 General Election.
In 1805 Richard Griffin 3rd Baron Braybrook (age 21) was elected MP Thirsk which seat he held until 1806.
In 1815 Robert Frankland-Russell 7th Baronet (age 31) was elected MP Thirsk.
In March 1851 William Payne-Gallwey 2nd Baronet (age 43) was elected MP Thirsk unopposed at a by-election. He was re-elected without a contest in the next four general elections, and in contested elections in 1868 and 1874. He held the seat until he stood down at the 1880 general election.