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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
MP Callington is in Member Parliament.
In 1621 James Wriothesley (age 15) was elected MP Callington.
In 1626 Thomas Jermyn (age 53) was elected MP Callington.
In November 1640 Arthur Ingram (age 75) was elected MP Callington
In 1660 John Coryton 1st Baronet (age 38) was elected MP Callington in a by-election.
In 1660 Allen Brodrick (age 36) was elected MP Callington and MP Orford. He chose to sit for MP Orford.
In 1661 Henry Bennet 1st Earl Arlington (age 43) was elected MP Callington.
In February 1679 John Coryton 1st Baronet (age 57) was elected MP Callington.
In 1681 William Coryton 3rd Baronet (age 30) was elected MP Callington.
In 1685 John Coryton 2nd Baronet (age 36) was elected MP Callington in which year he was unseated.
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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 1685 William Coryton 3rd Baronet (age 34) was elected MP Callington which seat he held until 1687.
In 1689 John Coryton 2nd Baronet (age 40) was elected MP Callington which seat he held until death the next year.
In 1695 William Coryton 3rd Baronet (age 44) was elected MP Callington which seat he held until 1701.
In November 1703 William Coryton 3rd Baronet (age 53) was elected MP Callington which seat he held until his death in 1711.
In April 1810 William Stephen Poyntz (age 40) was elected MP Callington.
In 1831 Henry Bingham-Baring (age 26) was elected MP Callington.