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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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MP Ludgershall is in Member Parliament.
In 1523 Richard Brydges (age 23) was elected MP Ludgershall (Note. There is some doubt about this).
In 1529 Richard Brydges (age 29) was elected MP Ludgershall.
In 1536 Richard Brydges (age 36) was elected MP Ludgershall (Note. There is some doubt about this).
In October 1553 Richard Brydges (age 53) was elected MP Ludgershall.
In 1558 Richard Brydges (age 58) was elected MP Ludgershall (Note. There is some doubt about this).
In 1588 Henry Hyde (age 25) was elected MP Ludgershall.
In 1625 Robert Pye (age 40) was elected MP Ludgershall.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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In October 1679 John Garrard 3rd Baronet (age 41) was elected MP Ludgershall.
In 1755 Henry Digby 1st Earl Digby (age 23) was elected MP Ludgershall.
In 1790 William Assheton Harbord 2nd Baron Suffield (age 23) was elected MP Ludgershall.
In 1811 Charles Winn-Allanson 2nd Baron Headley (age 26) was elected MP Ludgershall which seat he held until 1812.