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MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis is in Member Parliament.
In 1586 Edward Phelips (age 29) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1593 Thomas Stafford (age 19) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1597 Francis Leigh (age 18) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1604 Robert Myddelton (age 41) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1614 Robert Bateman (age 52) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the Addled Parliament.
In 1621 John Freke (age 30) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. He was re-elected in 1624.
In 1624 Thomas Myddelton of Chirk Castle (age 38) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until 1625.
In 1625 John Melbury Sampford Strangeways (age 39) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In April 1640 Giles Strangeways (age 24) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis during the Short Parliament.
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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.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 14th April 1660. My Lord is chosen at Waymouth this morning; my Lord had his freedom brought him by Captain Tiddiman of the port of Dover, by which he is capable of being elected for them. This day I heard that the Army had in general declared to stand by what the next Parliament shall do. At night supped with my Lord.
In June 1660 Colonel Bullen Reymes (age 46) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1661 Colonel Bullen Reymes (age 47) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1747 Welbore Ellis 1st Baron Mendip (age 33) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until 1761.
In 1774 Welbore Ellis 1st Baron Mendip (age 60) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until 1790.
In 1786 George Jackson aka Duckett 1st Baronet (age 60) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until 1788.
In 1790 Thomas Tyrwhitt aka Tyrwhitt-Jones 1st Baronet (age 24) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until Jun 1791.
In 1791 James Johnstone 4th Baronet (age 64) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until his death in 1794. His brother William Johnstone aka Pulteney 5th Baronet (age 61) had requested the sitting MP Thomas Tyrwhitt aka Tyrwhitt-Jones 1st Baronet (age 25) to stand down forcing a by-election which James won.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1813 James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil 2nd Marquess Salisbury (age 21) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1818 Thomas Fowell Buxton 1st Baronet (age 31) was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.