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High Sheriff of Gloucestershire is in High Sheriff.
In 1157 William Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp (age 52) was appointed High Sheriff of Warwickshire and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1469 Robert Poyntz (age 19) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1480 Robert Poyntz (age 30) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1483 Robert Poyntz (age 33) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1484 Robert Poyntz (age 34) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1494 Robert Poyntz (age 44) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1500 Robert Poyntz (age 50) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1507 Anthony Poyntz (age 27) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1518 William Denys (age 48) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
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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 1522 Anthony Poyntz (age 42) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1526 William Denys (age 56) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1527 Anthony Poyntz (age 47) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1533 Anthony Kingston (age 25) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1539 Nicholas Poyntz (age 29) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1545 Nicholas Poyntz (age 35) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1546 Miles Partridge was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1550 Anthony Kingston (age 42) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1569 Nicholas Poyntz of Iron Acton (age 41) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1588 Henry Poole of Sapperton (age 47) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1603 Henry Poole of Sapperton (age 62) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1630 Ralph Dutton (age 55) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1664 John Hamner 3rd Baronet (age 31) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
In 1779 James Dutton 1st Baron Sherborne (age 34) was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
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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.
The London Gazette 22596. AT the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 5th day of February, 1862.
PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty (age 42) in Council
SHERIFFS appointed by Her Majesty in Council for the year 1862
ENGLAND (excepting Cornwall and Lancashire).
Gloucestershire. Sir George Samuel Jenkinson (age 44), of Eastwood, near Berkeley, Bart.