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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In 1547 Wymond Carew (age 54) was elected MP Peterborough.
On 5th October 1553 Walter Mildmay (age 32) was elected MP Peterborough.
In 1601 Nicholas Tufton 1st Earl of Thanet (age 22) was elected MP Peterborough.
In April 1640 William Fitzwilliam 2nd Baron Fitzwilliam (age 31) was elected MP Peterborough during the Short Parliament.
In November 1640 William Fitzwilliam 2nd Baron Fitzwilliam (age 31) was elected MP Peterborough during the Long Parliament.
In 1667 William Fitzwilliam 1st Earl Fitzwilliam (age 23) was elected MP Peterborough which seat he held until 1679.
In 1681 William Fitzwilliam 1st Earl Fitzwilliam (age 37) was elected MP Peterborough.
In 1689 William Brownlow 4th Baronet (age 23) was elected MP Peterborough.
In 1710 John Fitzwilliam 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam (age 25) was elected MP Peterborough which seat he held in 1713, 1715, 1722 and 1727.
On 22nd May 1728 Joseph Banks (age 36) was elected MP Peterborough at a by-election.
On 29th January 1729 Charles Gounter Nicoll (age 24) was elected MP Peterborough.
On 4th May 1741 William Fitzwilliam 1st and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam (age 21) was elected MP Peterborough.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1768 Henry Belasyse 2nd Earl Fauconberg (age 25) was elected MP Peterborough.
In 1841 George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (age 23) was elected MP Peterborough which seat he held until 1859.