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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.

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MP Westbury is in Member Parliament.

In 1572 Henry Brouncker Lord President Munster (age 22) was elected MP Westbury.

In 1597 James Ley 1st Earl of Marlborough (age 45) was elected MP Westbury.

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On 3rd February 1624 Henry Mildmay (age 31) was elected MP Westbury.

In 1628 Charles Thynne (age 60) was elected MP Westbury.

In 1640 William Wheler 1st Baronet (age 29) was elected MP Westbury which seat he held until excluded in 1648.

In February 1659 William Wheler 1st Baronet (age 48) was elected MP Westbury which seat he held until April 1659.

In 1747 Paul Methuen (age 23) was elected MP Westbury which seat he held until 1748.

In 1795 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was elected MP Westbury.

In 1802 William Baldwin (age 65) was elected MP Westbury which seat he held until 1806.

In 1831 Henry Frederick Stephenson (age 40) was elected MP Westbury which seat he held until 1832.