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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 Chippenham is in Member Parliament.
In 1555 John Pollard was elected MP Chippenham.
In 1628 John Eyre (age 48) was elected MP Chippenham.
In 1659 Edward Hungerford (age 26) was elected MP Chippenham during the Third Protectorate Parliament.
In 1660 Edward Hungerford (age 27) was elected MP Chippenham during the Convention Parliament.
On 8th May 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 30) summoned his second Parliament.
John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston (age 44) was elected MP Wallingford.
James Thynne (age 56) was elected MP Wiltshire.
Adam Browne 2nd Baronet (age 35) was elected MP Surrey.
Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 30) was elected MP Northumberland.
William Compton (age 36) was elected MP Cambridge.
Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry (age 32) was elected MP Camelford.
Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 61) was elected MP Bath and Heytesbury.
Edward Hungerford (age 28) was elected MP Chippenham.
Robert Pierrepont (age 24) was elected MP Nottingham.
John Melbury Sampford Strangeways (age 75) was elected MP Weymouth.
Giles Strangeways (age 45) was elected MP Dorset.
John Strangeways (age 24) was elected MP Bridport.
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James Herbert (age 38) was elected MP Queenborough.
William Alington 1st and 3rd Baron Alington (age 21) was elected MP Cambridge.
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Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet (age 73) was elected MP Nottinghamshire.
Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew (age 37) was elected MP Brackley.
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William Portman 6th Baronet (age 17) was elected MP Taunton.
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In 1679 Edward Hungerford (age 46) was elected MP Chippenham.
On 21st March 1681 Edward Hungerford (age 48) was elected MP Chippenham at Oxford, Oxfordshire [Map] during the Oxford Parliament 5C2.
On 16th March 1685 Sharington Talbot (age 28) was elected MP Chippenham.
On 9th December 1690 Basil Firebrace 1st Baronet (age 38) was elected MP Chippenham. The election was declared void one year later. He won the rerun election but was unseated him in favour of Thomas Tollemache (age 41) on 22nd January 1692.
In 1701 John Mordaunt (age 20) was elected MP Chippenham.
In 1713 John Eyles 2nd Baronet (age 30) was elected MP Chippenham.
In 1715 John Eyles 2nd Baronet (age 32) was elected MP Chippenham.
In 1722 John Eyles 2nd Baronet (age 39) was elected MP Chippenham unopposed.
In 1734 John Eyles 2nd Baronet (age 51) stood for MP Chippenham but was defeated.
In 1754 Samuel Fludyer (age 50) was elected MP Chippenham. He is not recorded as having ever spoken during his 14 years in the House.