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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.
MP Totnes is in Member Parliament.
In 1472 William Hody (age 31) was elected MP Totnes.
In 1559 Nicholas Poyntz of Iron Acton (age 31) was appointed MP Totnes.
In 1589 Richard Edgecumbe (age 19) was elected MP Totnes.
In 1679 Edward Seymour 4th Baronet (age 46) was elected MP Totnes.
In 1695 Edward Seymour 4th Baronet (age 62) was elected MP Totnes.
In 1701 Christopher Musgrave 4th Baronet (age 69) was elected MP Totnes.
On 22nd April 1717 John Germain 1st Baronet (age 66) was elected MP Totnes.
In 1722 Joseph Banks of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire (age 56) was elected MP Totnes.
In 1774 James Amyatt of Freemantle in Hampshire (age 39) was elected MP Totnes which seat he held until 1780.
In 1788 William Henry Vane 1st Duke Cleveland (age 21) was elected MP Totnes which seat he held until 1790.
In 1811 Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (age 28) was elected MP Totnes.
In 1834 Edward Adolphus Seymour 12th Duke of Somerset (age 29) was elected MP Totnes.