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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.
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MP Berkshire is in Member Parliament.
In 1539 Richard Brydges (age 39) was elected MP Berkshire (Note. There is some doubt about this).
In 1539 Thomas Pope (age 32) was elected MP Berkshire.
In April 1553 Richard Brydges (age 53) was elected MP Berkshire.
In November 1554 Richard Brydges (age 54) was elected MP Berkshire.
In 1563 John Cheney was elected MP Berkshire.
In 1572 Edward Unton (age 38) was elected MP Berkshire.
In 1584 Edward Unton (age 28) was elected MP Berkshire.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In 1586 Edward Unton (age 30) was elected MP Berkshire.
In 1586 Thomas Parry (age 45) was elected MP Berkshire.
In 1614 Thomas Parry (age 73) was elected MP Berkshire. After being censured for interference in the election at Stockbridge, was dismissed from the House on 11th May 1614.
In 1654 Robert Pye (age 34) was elected MP Berkshire during the First Protectorate Parliament.
In 1659 Robert Pye (age 39) was elected MP Berkshire during the Third Protectorate Parliament.
In 1660 Robert Pye (age 40) was elected MP Berkshire during the Convention Parliament.
In 1662 Philip Howard (age 32) was elected MP Berkshire.
In 1754 Charles Fane 2nd Viscount Fane (age 46) was elected MP Berkshire which seat he held until 1761.
In 1857 Philip Pleydell-Bouverie (age 68) was elected MP Berkshire.