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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.
Long Parliament is in 1640-1649 Civil War and Regicide.
In November 1640 Humphrey Coningsbury was elected MP Herefordshire in the Long Parliament.
William Heveningham was elected MP Stockbridge during the Long Parliament.
Robert Crane 1st Baronet was elected MP Sudbury in the Long Parliament holding the seat until his death in 1643.
John Jennings was elected MP St Albans during the Long Parliament.
John Glynne was elected MP Westminster during the Long Parliament.
In 1626 John Hobart 2nd Baronet was elected MP Norfolk in the Long Parliament which seat he held until his death.
In 1640 Hugh Pollard 2nd Baronet was elected MP Bere Alston in the Long Parliament.
In 1640 John Paulett 2nd Baron Paulett was elected MP Somerset during the Long Parliament.
In 1640 Edward Phelips was elected MP Ilchester during the Long Parliament.
In 1640 Simonds D'Ewes 1st Baronet was elected MP Sudbury during the Long Parliament.
In October 1640 Sidney Godolphin was elected MP Helston during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Francis Godolphin was elected MP Hereford during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Gervase Holles was elected MP Grimsby in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Anthony Hungerford was elected MP Malmesbury during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Philip Musgrave 2nd Baronet was elected MP Westmoreland in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Francis Newport 1st Earl Bradford was elected MP Shrewsbury during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Dudley North 4th Baron North was elected MP Cambridgeshire in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 John Craven 1st Baron Craven was elected MP Tewkesbury during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 William Pierrepont of Thoresby was elected MP Great Wenlock during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 James Fiennes 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele was elected MP Oxfordshire in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Ambrose Browne 1st Baronet was elected MP Surrey during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 John Curzon 1st Baronet was elected MP Derbyshire during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Philip Sidney 3rd Earl of Leicester was elected MP Yarmouth Isle of Wight during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 John Melbury Sampford Strangeways was elected MP Dorset during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Giles Strangeways was elected MP Bridport during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Humfrey Tufton 1st Baronet was elected MP Maidstone during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 John Wray 2nd Baronet was elected MP Lincolnshire during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Christopher Wray was elected MP Grimsby during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Charles Cecil was elected MP Hertford during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 William Jephson was elected MP Stockbridge in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Isaac Penington was elected MP City of London in the Long Parliament which seat he held until 1653.
In November 1640 Alexander Carew 2nd Baronet was elected MP Cornwall during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet was elected MP East Retford during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 William Fitzwilliam 2nd Baron Fitzwilliam was elected MP Peterborough during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Edward Rodney was elected MP Wells during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Henry Mildmay was elected MP Maldon during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Framlingham Gawdy of West Harling was elected MP Thetford in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Thomas Littleton 2nd Baronet was elected MP Much Wenlock in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Edmund Waller was elected MP Ives in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Thomas Tomkins was elected MP Weobley in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 John Borlase 1st Baronet was elected MP Great Marlow in the Long Parliament but the election was subequently declared void.
In November 1640 Archbishop William Laud was accused of treason during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Thomas Jermyn was elected MP Bury St Edmunds during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Henry Jermyn 1st Earl St Albans was elected MP Bury St Edmunds during the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins was elected MP Lancaster in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 Samuel Sandys was elected MP Droitwich in the Long Parliament.
In November 1640 John Coke was elected MP Derbyshire in the Long Parliament which seat he held until his death in 1650.
In December 1640 Robert Pye was elected MP Woodstock during the Long Parliament.
In 1641 John Burgoyne 2nd Baronet was elected MP Bedfordshire in the Long Parliament.
In 1641 Colonel John Russell was elected MP Tavistock in the Long Parliament.
On 3rd May 1642 William Waller was elected MP Andover during the Long Parliament.
In November 1642 Roger Palmer was elected MP Newton during the Long Parliament.
In 1645 Francis Pierrepont was elected MP Nottingham during the Long Parliament.
In 1645 John Burgoyne 1st Baronet was elected MP Warwickshire in the Long Parliament which seat he held until 1648 when excluded by Pride's Purge.
In 1645 Francis Bacon was elected MP Ipswich in the Long Parliament.
In 1645 John Spelman was elected MP Castle Rising in the Long Parliament.
In May 1646 James Herbert was elected MP Wiltshire in the Long Parliament.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 25th March 1664. Lady-day. Up and by water to White Hall, and there to chappell; where it was most infinite full to hear Dr. Critton. Being not knowne, some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question my coming in. I told them my pretence; so they turned to the orders of the chappell, which hung behind upon the wall, and read it; and were satisfied; but they did not demand whether I was in waiting or no; and so I was in some fear lest he that was in waiting might come and betray me. The Doctor preached upon the thirty-first of Jeremy, and the twenty-first and twenty-second verses, about a woman compassing a man; meaning the Virgin conceiving and bearing our Saviour. It was the worst sermon I ever heard him make, I must confess; and yet it was good, and in two places very bitter, advising the King to do as the Emperor Severus did, to hang up a Presbyter John (a short coat and a long gowne interchangeably) in all the Courts of England. But the story of Severus was pretty, that he hanged up forty senators before the Senate house, and then made a speech presently to the Senate in praise of his owne lenity; and then decreed that never any senator after that time should suffer in the same manner without consent of the Senate: which he compared to the proceeding of the Long Parliament against my Lord Strafford. He said the greatest part of the lay magistrates in England were Puritans, and would not do justice; and the Bishopps, their powers were so taken away and lessened, that they could not exercise the power they ought. He told the King and the ladies plainly, speaking of death and of the skulls and bones of dead men and women1, how there is no difference; that nobody could tell that of the great Marius or Alexander from a pyoneer; nor, for all the pains the ladies take with their faces, he that should look in a charnels-house could not distinguish which was Cleopatra's, or fair Rosamond's, or Jane Shoare's.
Note 1. The preacher appears to have had the grave scene in "Hamlet" in his mind, as he gives the same illustration of Alexander as Hamlet does.
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John Evelyn's Diary. 25th January 1679. The Long Parliament, which had sat ever since the Restoration, was dissolved by persuasion of the Lord Treasurer, though divers of them were believed to be his pensioner. At this, all the politicians were at a stand, they being very eager in pursuit of the late plot of the Papists.
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th December 1640. I saw his Majesty (coming from his Northern Expedition) ride in pomp and a kind of ovation, with all the marks of a happy peace, restored to the affections of his people, being conducted through London with a most splendid cavalcade; and on the 3d of November following (a day never to be mentioned without a curse), to that long ungrateful, foolish, and fatal Parliament, the beginning of all our sorrows for twenty years after, and the period of the most happy monarch in the world: Quis talia fando!
