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MP Wootton Bassett is in Member Parliament.
In 1545 Edmund Brydges 2nd Baron Chandos (age 23) was elected MP Wootton Bassett.
In 1584 Thomas Vavasour (age 24) was elected MP Wootton Bassett.
In 1586 Thomas Vavasour (age 26) was elected MP Wootton Bassett.
On 30th December 1623 the fourth Parliament of James I (age 57) known as the Happy Parliament was summoned.
On 19th February 1624 the Happy Parliament held its first session.
Roland Egerton 1st Baronet (age 29) was elected MP Wootton Bassett.
Arthur Lake (age 25) was elected MP Minehead.
James Wriothesley (age 18) was elected MP Winchester.
Richard Edgecumbe (age 53) was elected MP Grampound.
In 1626 Thomas Lake (age 58) was elected MP Wootton Bassett.
In November 1640 Edward Neville Poole (age 23) was elected MP Wootton Bassett.
In 1661 Walter St John 3rd Baronet (age 38) was elected MP Wootton Bassett.
In October 1679 Henry St John 1st Viscount St John (age 26) was elected MP Wootton Bassett which seat he held until March 1681. He also held the seat in 1685–87, 1689–95 and 1698–1700.
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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.
In 1708 Robert Cecil (age 37) was elected MP Wootton Bassett. He did not stand at the 1710 British general election.
In 1831 Henry John George Herbert 3rd Earl Carnarvon (age 30) was elected MP Wootton Bassett.