Bridport, Dorset is in Dorset.
See: Eggardon Hill Fort [Map].
Around 1264 Maud Moreville was born to Eudes Moreville in Bridport, Dorset [Map]. She married before July 1285 Henry Cobham 1st Baron Cobham and had issue.
Close Rolls Edward IV Edward V Richard III 1476-1485. On 5th November 1483 King Richard III of England [aged 31]. Bridport, Dorset [Map]. Commission of array in Wales to the king's kinsman William, Earl of Huntingdon [aged 32], and James Tyrrell [aged 28], knight, for the resistance of the rebels. By K. by word of mouth.
The like to James Tyrell, knight.
Before 29th September 1548 Richard Mohun [aged 40] died at Bridport, Dorset [Map]. He was buried at Bridport, Dorset [Map].
In 1571 Thomas Parry [aged 30] was elected MP Bridport.
In 1601 Richard Warburton was elected MP Bridport.
In 1601 Robert Napier [aged 59] was elected MP Bridport which seat he held for less than a year.
In November 1640 Giles Strangeways [aged 25] was elected MP Bridport during the Long Parliament.
Before 31st August 1660 John Drake 1st Baronet [aged 35] was elected MP Bridport during the Convention Parliament.
On 8th May 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 30] summoned his second Parliament.
John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston [aged 44] was elected MP Wallingford.
James Thynne [aged 56] was elected MP Wiltshire.
Adam Browne 2nd Baronet [aged 35] was elected MP Surrey.
Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne [aged 30] was elected MP Northumberland.
William Compton [aged 36] was elected MP Cambridge.
Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 32] was elected MP Camelford.
Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge [aged 61] was elected MP Bath and Heytesbury.
Edward Hungerford [aged 28] was elected MP Chippenham.
Robert Pierrepont [aged 24] was elected MP Nottingham.
John Melbury Sampford Strangeways [aged 75] was elected MP Weymouth.
Giles Strangeways [aged 45] was elected MP Dorset.
John Strangeways [aged 24] was elected MP Bridport.
William Wyndham 1st Baronet [aged 29] was elected MP Taunton.
James Herbert [aged 38] was elected MP Queenborough.
William Alington 1st and 3rd Baron Alington [aged 21] was elected MP Cambridge.
William Bowes of Streatlam [aged 4] was elected MP Durham.
Robert Brooke [aged 24] was elected MP Aldeburgh.
Josiah Child [aged 30] was elected MP Dartmouth.
Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet [aged 73] was elected MP Nottinghamshire.
Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew [aged 37] was elected MP Brackley.
Richard Jennings [aged 42] was elected MP St Albans.
Robert Kemp 2nd Baronet [aged 33] was elected MP Norfolk.
Edward Phelips [aged 48] was elected MP Somerset.
Robert Robartes [aged 27] was elected MP Bossiney.
Hender Robartes [aged 25] was elected MP Bodmin.
Clement Fisher 2nd Baronet [aged 48] was elected MP Coventry.
William Portman 6th Baronet [aged 17] was elected MP Taunton.
John Robinson 1st Baronet [aged 46] was elected MP Rye.
On 27th February 1677 Wadham Strangeways [aged 31] was elected MP Bridport. He was re-elected March 1679.
In October 1679 Robert Henley 2nd Baronet [aged 24] was elected MP Bridport.
In 1719 Dewey Bulkeley [aged 45] was elected unopposed MP Bridport at a by-election caused by his brother-in-law, William Coventry [aged 43], who held the seat, succeeding to his title of Earl Coventry. He was elected again in 1722 but did stand at any subsequent elections.
In 1774 Lucius Ferdinand Cary Master of Falkland [aged 39] was elected MP Bridport in the 1774 General Election.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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In 1817 Henry Charles Sturt [aged 21] was elected MP Bridport which seat he held until 1820.
Eggardon Hill Fort [Map] is a large multivallate hillfort from the Iron Age. The surviving earthworks enclose an area of approximately 21 hectars in total. The defences consist of three ramparts with two medial ditches with additional outer banks to the north-west and east.