The first parliament began on 21 June 1625 and was held to July 11 1625 when it adjourned to Oxford because of fear of plague in London. It then sat from 1 August 1625 to 12 August 1625 when it was dissolved. It gained its name because it transacted no significant business, but it was most 'useless' from the king's point of view.
Bedfordshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Bedfordshire |
Oliver St John
Sir Oliver Luke |
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Bedford |
Sir Beauchamp St John
Richard Taylor |
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Berkshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Berkshire |
Edmund Dunch
Sir Francis Knollys |
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Windsor |
William Russell
Humphrey Newbury |
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Reading |
Francis Knollys junior
John Sanders |
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Wallingford |
Sir Anthony Forrester
Michael Molyns |
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Abingdon |
Robert Knollys |
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Buckinghamshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Buckinghamshire |
Sir Francis Goodwin
Henry Bulstrode |
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Buckingham |
Sir Alexander Denton
Richard Oliver |
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Wycombe |
Henry Coke
Thomas Lane |
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Aylesbury |
Sir Robert Carr
Sir John Hare |
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Amersham |
John Crew
Francis Drake |
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Wendover |
John Hampden
Sir Sampson Darrell |
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Marlow |
John Backhouse
Thomas Cotton |
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Cambridgeshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Cambridgeshire |
Sir Edward Peyton, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Cutts |
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Cambridge University |
Sir Robert Naunton
Sir Albert Morton |
Morton also elected for Kent |
Cambridge |
Talbot Pepys
Thomas Meautys |
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Cheshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Cheshire |
Robert Cholmondeley
Sir Anthony St John |
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City of Chester |
Edward Whitby
John Savage |
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Cornwall
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Cornwall |
Charles Trevanion
Sir Robert Killigrew |
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Launceston |
Bevil Grenville
Richard Scott |
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Liskeard |
William Coryton
Nicholas Hele |
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Lostwithiel |
Sir Henry Vane
Nicholas Kendall
Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet
Reginald Mohun |
Double return |
Truro |
Wiliam Rous
Henry Rolle |
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Bodmin |
Robert Caesar
Henry Jermyn |
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Helston |
Francis Carew
Thomas Carey |
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Saltash |
Francis Buller
Sir Richard Buller |
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Camelford |
Sir Henry Hungate
Thomas Cotteel |
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Grampound |
John Mohun
Sir Samuel Rolle |
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Eastlow |
Sir James Bagge
Sir Thomas Trevor |
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Westlow |
Sir John Wolstenholme, 1st Baronet
Edward Thomas |
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Penryn |
Edward Roberts
Sir Edwin Sandys |
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Tregoney |
Sir Henry Carey
Sebastion Goode |
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Bossiney |
Sir Francis Cottington Bt
Jonathan Prideaux |
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St Ives |
Sir William Parkhurst
Sir Francis Godolphin |
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Fowey |
Arthur Basset
Jonathan Rashleigh |
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St Germans |
Sir John Coke
Sir Henry Martin |
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Mitchel |
Henry Sandys
Sir John Smith |
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Newport |
Sir John Eliot
Ralph Speccot |
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St Mawes |
Sir James Fullerton
Nathaniel Tomkins |
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Callington |
Sir Richard Weston
Thomas Wise |
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Cumberland
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Cumberland |
Sir George Dalston
Sir Patricius Curwen Bart |
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Carlisle |
Sir Henry Vane
Edward Aglionby |
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Derbyshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Derbyshire |
William Lord Cavendish
John Stanhope |
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Derby |
Sir Edward Leech
Timothy Leeving (Recorder) |
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Devon
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Devon |
Sir Francis Fulford
Francis Courtenay |
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Exeter |
Ignatius Jordan
Nicholas Duck |
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Totnes |
Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet
Sir Edward Giles |
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Plymouth |
John Glanville
Thomas Sherville (merchant) |
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Barnstaple |
Pentecost Dodderidge
John Delbridge |
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Plympton Erle |
Sir Warwick Hele
Sir William Strode |
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Tavistock |
John Pym
Sir Francis Granville |
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Clifton Dartmouth Hardness |
John Upton
Roger Matthew (Merchant) |
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Bere Alston |
Sir Thomas Cheek
William Strode |
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Tiverton |
Sir Rowland St John
John Francis |
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Dorset
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Dorset |
Sir Walter Erle
Sir Nathaniel Napier |
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Poole |
Sir John Cooper
John Pyne |
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Dorchester |
Sir Francis Ashley
William Whiteway |
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Lyme Regis |
John Drake
Thomas Paramour |
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Weymouth and Melcombe Regis |
Sir John Strangways
Thomas Middleton
Arthur Pyne
Bernard Michell |
Middleton chosen for Denbighshire and replaced by Giles Green |
Bridport |
Lewis Dyve
Sir John Strode |
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Shaftesbury |
John Thoroughgood
William Whitaker |
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Wareham |
Sir William Pitt
John Trenchard |
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Corfe Castle |
Sir Peter Osborne
Sir Francis Nethersale |
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Essex
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Essex |
Sir Francis Barrington Bt
Sir Arthur Harris |
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Colchester |
William Towse
Sir Robert Quarles |
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Maldon |
Sir William Masham, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Mildmay |
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Harwich |
Sir Edward Sawyer
Christopher Harris |
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Gloucestershire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Gloucestershire |
Sir Maurice Berkeley
John Dutton |
Browne Willis gives Sir Robert Tracy and Sir Robert Pointz |
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Gloucester |
Christopher Caple
John Browne |
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Cirencester |
Sir Miles Sandys
Henry Poole |
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Tewkesbury |
Sir Dudley Diggs
Sir Baptist Hicks |
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Hampshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Hampshire |
Robert Wallop
Sir Henry Whitehead |
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Winchester |
Richard Tichborne
Sir Thomas Philips |
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Southampton |
Sir John Mill, 1st Baronet
George Gallop |
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Portsmouth |
Sir Benjamin Rudyerd
Sir Daniel Norton |
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Petersfield |
Sir John Jephson
William Uvedale |
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Yarmouth |
John Clerk
John Oglander |
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Newport |
Robert Dillington
William Oglander |
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Stockbridge |
Sir Robert Gifford
Sir Thomas Badger |
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Newtown |
Sir Thomas Barrington, 2nd Baronet
Thomas Muller |
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Lymington |
John Button
John Mills |
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Christchurch |
Nathaniel Tomkins
Sir Thomas Wilford |
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Whitchurch |
Robert Wallop
Giles Hungerford |
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Andover |
Sir Henry Wallop
Henry Shuter |
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Herefordshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Herefordshire |
John Ruddall
Edward Bridges |
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Hereford |
James Clerk
Richard Weaver |
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Leominster |
James Tompkins
Edward Littleton |
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Hertfordshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Hertfordshire |
Sir James Boteler
John Boteler |
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St Albans |
Sir Charles Morrison, 1st Baronet
John Laken |
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Hertford |
William Ashton
Thomas Fanshawe |
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Huntingdonshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Huntingdonshire |
Edward Montagu
Sir Oliver Cromwell |
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Huntingdon |
Sir Arthur Mainwaring
Sir Henry St John |
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Kent
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Kent |
Mildmay Lord Buckhurst
Sir Albert Morton |
Morton also elected for Cambridge University |
Canterbury |
John Fisher
Sir Thomas Wilsford |
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Rochester |
Henry Clerke
(Sir) Thomas Walsingham |
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Maidstone |
Edward Mapleton
Thomas Stanley |
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Queenborough |
Roger Palmer
Edward Hales |
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Lancashire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Lancashire |
Sir Richard Molyneux, Bt
Sir John Ratcliffe |
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Preston |
Sir William Harvey
Henry Banister |
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Lancaster |
Sir Humphrey May
Sir Thomas Fanshawe |
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Newton |
Sir Miles Fleetwood
Sir Henry Edmonds |
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Wigan |
Francis Downs
Edward Bridgeman |
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Clitheroe |
Ralph Assheton
William Fanshaw |
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Liverpool |
James Lord Strange
Edward More |
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Leicestershire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Leicestershire |
Ferdinando Lord Hastings
Sir Wolstan Dixie |
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Leicester |
Thomas Jermyn
Sir Humphrey May |
May chosen for Lancaster and replaced by Sir George Hastings |
Lincolnshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Lincolnshire |
Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet
Sir Nicholas Saunderson Bt |
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Lincoln |
Sir Thomas Grantham
John Monson |
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Boston |
Sir Edward Barkham
William Boswell |
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Grimsby |
Henry Pelham
Sir Christopher Wray |
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Stamford |
Montagu Bertie
John St Amand |
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Grantham |
Sir George Manners
Sir William Airmine |
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Middlesex
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Middlesex |
Sir John Franklyn
Sir William Gerard, 2nd Baronet |
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Westminster |
Sir Edward Villiers
William Mann |
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City of London |
Sir Thomas Middleton
Heneage Finch
Robert Bateman
Martin Bond |
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Monmouthshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Monmouthshire |
Robert Viscount Lisle
Sir William Morgan |
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Monmouth Boroughs |
Walter Stewart |
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Norfolk
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Norfolk |
Sir Edward Coke
Sir Edward Drury |
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Norwich |
William Denny
Sir Thomas Hyrne |
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King's Lynn |
Thomas Gurling (merchant)
John Cooke (merchant) |
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Yarmouth |
Sir John Corbet
Edward Owner |
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Thetford |
Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington
Framlingham Gawdy |
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Castle Rising |
Sir Hamon le Strange
Sir Thomas Bancroft |
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Northamptonshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Northamptonshire |
Sir William Spencer
William Knightley |
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Peterborough |
Laurence Whitacre
Christopher Hatton |
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Northampton |
Richard Spencer
Christopher Sherland |
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Brackley |
Sir Thomas Wenman
Edward Spencer |
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Higham Ferrers |
Edward Harvey |
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Northumberland
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Northumberland |
Sir John Fenwick
Francis Brandling |
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Newcastle |
Sir Thomas Lydall
Sir Henry Anderson |
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Morpeth |
Sir Thomas Reynel
Sir Anthony Herbert |
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Berwick upon Tweed |
Sir Robert Jackson
Sir John Selby |
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Nottinghamshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Nottinghamshire |
Sir Gervase Clifton
John Stanhope |
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Nottingham |
Robert Greves
John Martin |
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East Retford |
John Lord Haughton
Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Baronet |
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Oxfordshire
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Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Oxfordshire |
Edward Wray
Sir Richard Wenman |
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Oxford University |
Sir Thomas Edmondes
John Danvers |
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Oxford |
John Whistler
Thomas Wentworth |
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Woodstock |
Sir Philip Carew
Sir Gerard Fleetwood |
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Banbury |
Hon. James Fiennes |
Rutland
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Rutland |
William Bulstrode
Sir Guy Palmes |
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Salop
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Shropshire |
Sir Richard Newport
Sir Andrew Corbet |
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Shrewsbury |
Sir William Owen
Thomas Owen |
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Bridgnorth |
Walter Acton
John Bennet |
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Ludlow |
Richard Tomlins
Ralph Goodwin |
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Wenlock |
Thomas Lawley
Thomas Woolrich |
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Bishops Castle |
William Oakley
Edward Waring |
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Somerset
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Somerset |
John Stawell
Sir Robert Phelips |
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Bristol |
Nicholas Hyde
John Whitson |
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Bath |
Ralph Hopton
Edward Hungerford |
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Wells |
Sir Edward Rodney
Sir Thomas Lake |
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Taunton |
Edward Brereton
Sir Hugh Portman, 4th Baronet |
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Bridgwater |
Sir Arthur Lake
Edward Popham |
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Minehead |
Charles Pyne
Francis Lutterell |
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Ilchester |
Sir Robert Gage
Richard Wynn |
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Staffordshire
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Staffordshire |
Sir Simon Weston
Richard Erdeswick |
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Lichfield |
Sir Richard Dyott
William Wingfield |
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Stafford |
Sir John Ottley
Sir Robert Sutton |
Sutton replaced 1625 by Sir John Offley |
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Newcastle under Lyme |
John Bowyer
Samuel Terrick |
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Tamworth |
Sir Thomas Puckering Bt
Sir John Skeffington |
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Suffolk
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Suffolk |
Sir Edmund Bacon, 2nd Baronet
Thomas Cornwallis |
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Ipswich |
Robert Snelling
William Cage |
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Dunwich |
Sir Robert Rous
Sir Robert Brook |
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Orford |
Sir Robert Hitcham
Sir William Whitepole |
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Eye |
Francis Finch
Sir Roger North |
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Aldeburgh |
Sir Thomas Glemham
William Mason |
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Sudbury |
Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston
Sir Robert Crane, 1st Baronet |
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Bury St Edmunds |
Sir Thomas Jermyn
Sir William Spring |
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Surrey
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Surrey |
Sir George More
Sir Francis Leigh |
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Southwark |
Richard Yarward
William Cox |
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Bletchingly |
Edward Bysshe
Thomas Gresham |
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Reigate |
Sir Thomas Bludder
Roger James |
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Guildford |
Sir William Morley
Robert Parkhurst (junior) |
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Gatton |
Sir Charles Howard
Sir Thomas Crewe |
Crewe Speaker |
Haslemere |
Sir Francis Carew
Poynings More |
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Sussex
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Sussex |
Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Shirley |
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Chichester |
Algernon Lord Peircy
Humphrey Hagget |
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Horsham |
John Borough
John Middleton . |
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Midhurst |
Richard Lewknor
Samuel Owfield |
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Lewes |
Sir George Goring
Sir George Rivers |
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New Shoreham |
Anthony Stapley
William Morlett |
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Bramber |
William Bartlett
Thomas Bowyer |
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Steyning |
Sir Edward Fraunceys
Sir Thomas Farnefold |
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East Grinstead |
Sir Henry Compton
Robert Heath |
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Arundel |
Sir Henry Spiller
William Mills |
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Warwickshire
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Warwickshire |
Sir Thomas Lucy
Sir Clement Throckmorton |
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Coventry |
Henry Harewell
Sir Edward Coke |
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Warwick |
Sir Francis Leigh, Bt.
Francis Lucy |
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Westmorland
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Westmoreland |
Sir John Lowther
Sir Henry Bellingham |
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Appleby |
Sir John Hotham
Thomas Hughes |
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Wiltshire
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Wiltshire |
Sir Francis Seymour
Sir Henry Ley |
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Salisbury |
Henry Sherfield (Recorder)
Walter Long |
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Wilton |
Sir Thomas Morgan
Sir William Harrington |
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Downton |
Sir Clipsby Crew
Edward Herbert |
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Hindon |
Sir Thomas Thynne
William Lambert |
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Heytesbury |
Sir Charles Berkeley
Edward Bysshe |
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Westbury |
Sir Walter Long
Thomas Hopton |
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Calne |
Sir Edward Howard
George Lowe (senior) |
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Chippenham |
Sir John Maynard
Sir Francis Popham |
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Devizes |
Edward Bayntun
Robert Drew |
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Malmesbury |
Sir Henry Moody
Sir Edward Wardour |
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Cricklade |
Hungerford Dunch
Nevill Maskelyne |
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Ludgershall |
Robert Pye
Sir Thomas Hinton |
BW corrigenda gives othermember as Sir Thomas Jaye |
Great Bedwyn |
Sir John Broke
William Cholmley |
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Old Sarum |
Michael Oldisworth
Sir Thomas Stradling |
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Wootton Bassett |
Robert Hyde
Sir Walter Tichborne |
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Marlborough |
Richard Diggs
Edward Kyrton |
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Worcestershire
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Worcestershire |
Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet
William Russell |
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Worcester |
Sir Walter Devereux
Sir Henry Spelman |
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Droitwich |
John Wilde
John Coventry |
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Evesham |
Richard Cresheld
Anthony Langston |
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Bewdley |
Ralph Clare |
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Yorkshire
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Yorkshire |
Sir Thomas Wentworth, Bt
Sir Thomas Fairfax |
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York |
Sir Arthur Ingram
Christopher Brooke |
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Kingston upon Hull |
John Lister
Maurice Abbot |
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Knaresborough |
Sir Richard Hutton
Sir Henry Slingsby |
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Scarborough |
Hugh Cholmeley
William Thompson |
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Ripon |
William Mallory
Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby |
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Richmond |
Christopher Wandesford
Sir Talbot Bowes |
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Hedon |
Sir Thomas Fairfax of Walton
Christopher Hilliard II |
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Boroughbridge |
Sir Ferdinando Fairfax
William Mainwaring |
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Thirsk |
Henry Belasyse
Henry Stanley |
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Aldborough |
Richard Aldborough
John Carvill |
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Beverley |
Sir John Hotham Bt
Sir William Alford |
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Pontefract |
Sir John Jackson
Sir Richard Beaumont |
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Cinque Ports
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Hastings |
Nicholas Eversfield
Sackville Crowe |
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Romney |
Sir Edmund Verney
Richard Godfrey |
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Hythe |
Sir Edward Dering, 1st Baronet
Edward Clark |
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Dover |
John Hippisley
William Beecher |
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Sandwich |
Sir Henry Wotton
Sir Robert Sutton |
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Rye |
Tomas Fotherby
John Sackvill |
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Winchelsea |
Roger Twysden |
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Wales
|
Constituency |
Members |
Notes |
Anglesey |
Sir Sackville Trevor |
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Beaumaris |
Charles Jones |
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Brecknockshire |
Charles Vaughan |
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Brecknock |
Walter Pye |
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Cardiganshire |
James Lewis |
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Cardigan |
Rowland Pugh |
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Carmarthenshire |
(Sir) Richard Vaughan |
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Carmarthen |
Henry Vaughan |
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Carnarvonshire |
Thomas Glynn |
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Carnarvon |
Edward Littleton |
Littleton chose for Leominster - replaced by Robert Jones |
Denbighshire |
Thomas Myddelton |
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Denbigh Boroughs |
Sir Hugh Middleton, 1st Baronet |
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Flintshire |
Sir John Trevor |
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Flint |
William Ravenscroft |
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Glamorgan |
Sir Robert Mansell |
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Cardiff |
William Price |
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Merioneth |
Henry Wynn |
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Montgomeryshire |
William Herbert |
Herbert replaced by Sir Thomas Middleton |
Montgomery |
George Herbert |
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Pembrokeshire |
John Wogan |
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Pembroke |
Lewis Powell |
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Haverford West |
Sir Thomas Canon |
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Radnorshire |
James Price |
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Radnor |
Charles Price |
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