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MP Bere Alston is in Member Parliament.
In 1584 Edward Phelips (age 27) was elected MP Bere Alston.
In 1624 Thomas Jermyn (age 7) was elected MP Bere Alston.
In 1640 Hugh Pollard 2nd Baronet (age 37) was elected MP Bere Alston in the Long Parliament.
In 1646 Francis Drake 2nd Baronet (age 28) was elected MP Bere Alston.
In 1665 Joseph Maynard (age 25) was elected MP Bere Alston.
In 1694 Henry Hobart 4th Baronet (age 37) was elected MP Bere Alston.
In 1727 Francis Drake 4th Baronet (age 33) was elected MP Tavistock and MP Bere Alston. He chose to sit for Tavistock which seat he held until 1734.
In 1727 William Morden aka Harbord 1st Baronet (age 31) was elected MP Bere Alston.
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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 1727 John Hobart 1st Earl Buckinghamshire (age 33) was elected MP Bere Alston.
In 1728 Archer Croft 2nd Baronet (age 44) was elected MP Bere Alston.
In 1734 Francis Drake 4th Baronet (age 40) was elected MP Bere Alston which seat he held until his death in 1740.
In 1741 William Morden aka Harbord 1st Baronet (age 45) was elected MP Bere Alston.
In 1790 George Howland Beaumont 7th Baronet (age 36) was elected MP Bere Alston which seat he held until 1796.