List of MPs elected to the English parliament in 1604
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This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the 1st parliament in the reign of King James I in 1604, known as the Blessed Parliament.
The Parliament was summoned on 31 January 1604 and the first session ran from 19 March 1604 to 7 July 1604. The second session began on 5 November 1605 on the day when the Gunpowder Plot was discovered. It ended on 27 May 1606. The third session began on 18 November 1606 and lasted to 5 July 1607. The fourth session began on 9 February 1609 and continued to 23 July 1610. It was prorogued to 16 October 1610 and continued to 21 December 1610. It was then prorogued to 9 February 1611 when it was dissolved.
Prior to 1621 there was no official list of members and the 1614 parliamentary list is incomplete. However Browne Willis was able to state that his record for 1604 "is rendered thus perfect from a List sent me by the late Sir Philip Sydenham Bart".
List of constituencies and members[]
Bedfordshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
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Bedfordshire | Hon. Oliver St John Sir Edward Radclyffe |
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Bedford | Humphrey Winche |
Winche replaced by Sir Christopher Hatton |
Berkshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Berkshire | Sir Henry Neville Sir Francis Knollys |
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Windsor | Samuel Backhouse |
Durdent died - replaced by |
Reading | Francis Moore Jerome Bowes |
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Wallingford | Sir William Dunch |
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Abingdon | Sir Richard Lovelace | |
Buckinghamshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Buckinghamshire | Sir Francis Goodwin William Fleetwood |
Goodwin not duly elected and replaced by Christopher Pigott. Pigott expelled, replaced by Sir Anthony Tyringham |
Buckingham | Sir Thomas Denton Sir Edward Tyrrell |
Tyrrell died - replaced by Sir Francis Goodwin |
Wycombe | Henry Fleetwood |
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Aylesbury | Sir William Borlase Sir William Smith |
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Cambridgeshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cambridgeshire | Sir John Peyton, 1st Baronet Sir John Cutts |
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Cambridge University | Nicholas Steward |
Steward replaced by Barnaby Gooch |
Cambridge | Robert Wallis John Yaxley |
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Cheshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cheshire | Sir Roger Aston |
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City of Chester | Thomas Lawton Hugh Glasier |
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Cornwall[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cornwall | Sir Anthony Rous Sir Jonathan Trelawny |
Trelawny died 1604 replaced by Sir William Godolphin |
Launceston | Sir Thomas Lake |
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Liskeard | Sir William Killigrew |
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Lostwithiel | Sir Thomas Chaloner Sir William Lower |
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Truro | Sir Thomas Burgess |
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Bodmin | |
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Helston | Sir John Leigh |
Bogans died (1606); replaced by Robert Naunton |
Saltash | Sir Peter Manwood |
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Westlow | |
Harvey died; replaced by Sir William Wade |
Grampound | William Noy Francis Barnham |
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Eastlow | Sir Robert Phelips Sir John Parker |
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Camelford | Anthony Turpin |
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Penryn | Sir Richard Warburton |
Warburton died; replaced by Sir William Maynard (1609-1611) Prowse died; replaced by Sir Edward Conway (1610-1611) |
Tregoney | |
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St Ives | |
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Mitchell | William Cary William Hakewill |
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Bossiney | George Upton Jerome Horsey |
Upton died; replaced 1609-1611 by George Calvert |
Fowey | Francis Vyvyan |
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St Germans | George Carew |
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St Mawes | Dudley Carleton |
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Newport | Sir Robert Killigrew Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet |
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Callington | Sir Roger Wilbraham |
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Cumberland[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cumberland | Wilfrid Lawson |
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Carlisle | Thomas Blennerhassett |
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Derbyshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Derbyshire | |
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Derby | John Baxter |
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Devon[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Devon | Edward Seymour Thomas Ridgeway |
Ridgway replaced 1607 by Sir John Acland |
Exeter | George Smith |
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Totnes | Christopher Brocking Walter Dollings (merchant) |
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Barnstaple | George Pearde |
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Plymouth | Sir Richard Hawkins (merchant) |
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Plympton Erle | Sir William Strode |
Beaumont chose for Leicester - replaced by John Hele |
Tavistock | Sir George Fleetwood |
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Bere Alston | Sir Arthur Atye Sir Richard Strode |
Atye died replaced by Humphrey May from 1605 |
Clifton Dartmouth Hardness | Thomas Holland |
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Dorset[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Dorset | Sir Thomas Freke John Williams |
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Dorchester | Matthew Chubbe John Spicer |
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Poole | |
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Shaftesbury | Robert Hopton |
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Weymouth | (mayor) |
Barfoot died - replaced by William Cecil, Lord Cranborne |
Melcombe Regis | (alderman) (merchant) |
White replaced 1610 by |
Lyme Regis | Sir George Somers |
Somers died 1610 - replaced by Sir Francis Russell Hassard too ill in 1610 - replaced by |
Wareham | Sir Robert Napier Francis James |
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Bridport | |
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Corfe Castle | |
Duncombe poss Daccombe |
Essex[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Essex | Sir Edward Denny Sir Francis Barrington Bt |
Denny ennobled and replaced 1605 by Sir Gameliel Capell |
Colchester | Robert Barker Edward Alford |
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Maldon | Sir Edward Lewknor |
Lewknor died - replaced by Sir Theophilus Howard Wiseman died - replaced by |
Harwich | Richard Browne Thomas Trevor |
Not recorded by BW |
Gloucestershire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Gloucestershire | Sir Thomas Berkeley Sir Richard Berkeley |
Richard Berkeley died - replaced by John Throckmorton |
Gloucester | Nicholas Overbury John Jones |
BW gives Christopher Caple |
Cirencester | Richard Martin Arnold Oldsworth |
Martin chose for Christchurch - replaced by Edward Jones Jones died - replaced by Sir Anthony Manie |
Tewkesbury | Not enfranchised until 1610 when Sir Dudley Diggs and Edward Ferrers returned | |
Hampshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hampshire | Sir Robert Oxenbridge William Jephson |
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Winchester | |
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Southampton | Thomas Fleming |
Thomas Fleming made Baron of the Exchequer in 1604. Replaced by son Thomas Fleming |
Portsmouth | Oliver St John |
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Petersfield | Sir William Hervey |
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight | Arthur Bromfield |
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Newport, Isle of Wight | |
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Newtown, Isle of Wight | Sir John Stanhope |
Stanhope made Baron in 1605 and replaced by Thomas Wilson |
Lymington | |
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Christchurch | Richard Martin Nicholas Hyde |
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Stockbridge | Sir William Fortescue Edwin Sandys |
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Whitchurch | |
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Andover | Sir Thomas Jermyn |
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Herefordshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Herefordshire | Sir James Scudamore Sir Herbert Croft |
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Hereford | John Hoskins |
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Leominster | Thomas Coningsby |
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Hertfordshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hertfordshire | Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland Sir Rowland Lytton |
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St Albans | Francis Bacon |
Bacon chosen for Ipswich replaced by Tobie Matthew Carey died - replaced by |
Hertford | Not enfranchised | |
Huntingdonshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Huntingdonshire | Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington Sir Oliver Cromwell |
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Huntingdon | |
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Kent[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Kent | Sir John Scott Sir John Leveson |
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Canterbury | John Boys Matthew Hadde |
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Rochester | Sir Edward Hoby (Sir) Thomas Walsingham (elder) |
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Queenborough | Sir Edward Stafford Michael Sondes |
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Maidstone | Sir Francis Fane Lawrence Washington |
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Lancashire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Lancashire | Sir Richard Molyneux Sir Richard Hoghton |
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Preston | Sir Vincent Skinner (or Hall) |
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Lancaster | Sir Thomas Hesketh Sir Thomas Fanshawe |
Hesketh replaced 1605 by Thomas Howard |
Newton | Sir John Luke Richard Ashton |
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Wigan | Sir William Cooke |
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Clitheroe | Sir John Dormer |
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Liverpool | Giles Brook (alderman) |
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Leicestershire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Leicestershire | Sir George Villiers Sir Thomas Beaumont |
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Leicester | William Skipwith |
Skipwith died 1610 and replaced by Henry Rich |
Lincolnshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Lincolnshire | Lord Clinton and Saye |
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Lincoln | Sir Thomas Grantham Sir Edward Tyrwhit |
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Boston | Anthony Irby Francis Bullingham |
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Grimsby | Sir William Wray Sir George St Paul |
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Stamford | |
Wingfield died 1609 - replaced by Edward Cecil |
Grantham | Sir George Manners Sir Thomas Horsman |
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Middlesex[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Middlesex | Sir Robert Wroth |
Julius Caesar served part term. |
Westminster | Sir Thomas Knyvet Sir Walter Cope |
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City of London | Sir Henry Billingsley Sir Henry Montague Nicholas Fuller Richard Gore |
Billingsley died 1606 - replaced by Sir Thomas Lowe |
Monmouthshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Monmouthshire | Thomas Somerset Sir John Herbert |
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Monmouth Boroughs | (Sir) Robert Johnson | |
Norfolk[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Norfolk | Nicholas Bacon Sir Charles Cornwallis |
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Norwich | Henry Hobart John Pettus |
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King's Lynn | Thomas Oxborough (recorder) Robert Hitcham |
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Yarmouth | |
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Thetford | Bassingbourne Gawdy Sir William Paddy |
Gawdy died in 1606 - replaced by Sir William Twysden |
Castle Rising | Sir Thomas Monson Sir Robert Townsend |
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Northamptonshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Northamptonshire | Sir Edward Montagu Sir Valentine Knightley |
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Peterborough | Richard Cecil Edward Wymarke |
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Northampton | Henry Yelverton |
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Brackley | |
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Higham Ferrers | Goddard Pemberton | |
Northumberland[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Northumberland | Sir Henry Widdrington |
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Newcastle | George Selby |
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Morpeth | Christopher Perkins |
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Berwick upon Tweed | Sir William Selby |
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Nottinghamshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Nottinghamshire | Sir John Holles Sir Percival Willoughby |
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Nottingham | Richard Hunt |
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East Retford | |
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Oxfordshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Oxfordshire | Lawrence Tanfield |
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Oxford University | Sir Daniel Donne Sir Thomas Crompton |
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Oxford | Sir Francis Leigh Thomas Wentworth |
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Woodstock | Sir Richard Lee Thomas Spencer |
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Banbury | William Cope | |
Rutland[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Rutland | Sir James Harrington |
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Salop[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Shropshire | Sir Richard Leveson Sir Robert Needham |
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Shrewsbury | Richard Barker Francis Tate |
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Bridgnorth | Sir Lewis Lewknor Edward Bromley |
Bromley replaced by |
Ludlow | |
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Wenlock | |
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Bishops Castle | |
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Somerset[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Somerset | Sir Francis Hastings (Sir) Edward Phelips |
Phelips was speaker. Hastings died 1610 - replaced by John Poulett |
Bristol | George Snigge Thomas James |
Snigge replaced in 1605 by John Whitson |
Bath | William Sharestone Christopher Stone |
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Wells | James Kirton |
Stapleton died 1606 - replaced by Edward Forsett |
Taunton | John Bond |
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Bridgwater | |
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Minehead | Sir Ambrose Turville Sir Maurice Berkeley |
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Staffordshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Staffordshire | Sir Edward Littleton |
Littleton replaced 1610 by Francis Trentham Stanford replaced 1607 by Sir John Egerton |
Lichfield | Anthony Dyott Thomas Crew |
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Stafford | |
Beeston replaced by Arthur Ingram in 1609 |
Newcastle under Lyme | Walter Chetwynd |
Bowyer died 1605 replaced in by-election by Rowland Cotton |
Tamworth | Percival Willoughby John Ferrers |
Percival replaced in by-election in 1604 by Sir Thomas Beaumont |
Suffolk[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Suffolk | Sir John Heigham Sir Robert Drury |
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Ipswich | Sir Henry Glemham Sir Francis Bacon |
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Dunwich | Sir Valentine Knightley Philip Gawdy |
Knightley chose to sit for Northamptonshire;replaced by Thomas Smythe |
Orford | Sir Michael Stanhope Sir William Cornwallis |
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Eye | |
Honing died and replaced 1610 by Sir John Kay |
Aldeburgh | |
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Sudbury | |
BW corregenda changes Eden from Henry to Thomas |
Surrey[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Surrey | Sir Robert More Sir Edmund Bowyer |
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Southwark | George Rivers |
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Bletchingly | Sir John Trevor |
Bellingham died, replaced by |
Reigate | |
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Gatton | Sir Thomas Gresham Sir Nicholas Saunders |
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Guildford | Sir George More George Austen |
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Haslemere | Edward Fraunceys William Jackson |
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Sussex[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Sussex | Robert Sackville Charles Howard |
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Chichester | Adrian Stoughton Sir John Morley |
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Horsham | John Dodderidge Michael Hicks |
. |
Midhurst | Sir Richard Weston |
Weston may have replaced William Twinehoe |
Lewes | John Shirley Sir Henry Nevill |
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New Shoreham | Sir Hugh Beeston |
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Steyning | Sir Thomas Shirley Sir Thomas Bishopp, 1st Baronet |
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Bramber | Sir John Shurley |
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East Grinstead | Sir Henry Compton Sir John Swynnerton |
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Arundel | |
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Warwickshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Warwickshire | Sir Edward Greville Sir Richard Verney |
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Coventry | Henry Breres |
Rogerson ill and replaced by Sir John Harington |
Warwick | John Townsend |
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Westmorland[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Westmoreland | Sir Richard Musgrave |
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Appleby | |
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Wiltshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Wiltshire | Sir Francis Popham Sir John Thynne |
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Salisbury | Giles Tooker Richard Godfrey |
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Wilton | Sir Thomas Edmondes |
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Downton | Sir Carew Raleigh |
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Hindon | Sir Edmund Ludlow Thomas Thynne |
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Heytesbury | Sir William Eyre |
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Chippenham | John Hungerford |
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Calne | William Swaddon |
Swaddon vacated seat - replaced by Sir Edmund Carey |
Devizes | Sir Henry Baynton Robert Drew |
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Ludgershall | James Kirton Henry Ludlow |
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Great Bedwyn | (Sir) Anthony Hungerford |
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Cricklade | Sir John Hungerford Sir Henry Poole |
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Malmesbury | Sir Roger Dalyson |
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Westbury | Sir James Ley Matthew Ley |
James Ley made justice - replaced by Alexander Chocke |
Old Sarum | William Ravenscroft |
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Wootton Bassett | |
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Marlborough | Lawrence Hyde Richard Digges |
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Worcestershire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Worcestershire | Sir Henry Bromley Sir William Lygon |
Lygon died 1609 - replaced by Sir Samuel Sandys |
Worcester | John Coucher Christopher Deighton |
Deighton died - replaced by Rowland Berkeley |
Droitwich | George Wylde I John Brace |
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Evesham | Sir Thomas Biggs Sir Philip Knightley |
Knightley died 1605 - replaced by Robert Bowyer Bowyer replaced 1610 by Edward Salter |
Bewdley | Enfranchised 1605 Richard Young | |
Yorkshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Yorkshire | Sir Francis Clifford Sir John Savile |
BW gives Thomas Clifford |
York | (Alderman) Christopher Brooke |
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Kingston upon Hull | (Alderman) (Alderman) |
BW gives Edwards |
Scarborough | Francis Eure Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby |
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Knaresborough | Sir Henry Slingsby Sir William Slingsby |
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Richmond | Sir Talbot Bowes Richard Perceval |
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Beverley | ||
Aldborough | Sir Henry Savile |
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Thirsk | |
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Hedon | Sir Christopher Hilliard |
Constable replaced 1610 by John Digby |
Ripon | Sir John Mallory Sir John Bennet |
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Boroughbridge | John Ferne |
BW gives Fane for Ferne Ferne died replaced by Sir Richard Gargrave Gargrave then replaced by Sir Thomas Vavasour |
Cinque Ports[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hastings | Sir George Carew |
Lyffe died and was replaced 1605 by Carew created Baron Carew of Clopton on 4 June 1605 and replaced by Sir Edward Hales |
Sandwich | Sir George Fane |
Peake died 1607 replaced by John Griffith |
Dover | |
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Romney | |
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Hythe | Sir John Smith |
Smith died and replaced (1609) by Norton Knatchbull |
Rye | |
Hamon (or Hammond) died 1607, probably replaced by Heneage Finch |
Winchelsea | |
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Wales[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Anglesey | Sir Richard Bulkeley | |
Beaumaris | William Jones | |
Brecknockshire | Sir Robert Knollys | |
Brecknock | Sir Henry Williams | |
Cardiganshire | John Lewis | |
Cardigan | William Bradshaw | |
Carmarthenshire | Sir Robert Mansell | |
Carmarthen | Sir Walter Rice | |
Carnarvonshire | Sir William Maurice | |
Carnarvon | John Griffith | Griffith died 1609 - replaced by Clement Edmondes |
Denbighshire | Peter Mutton | |
Denbigh Boroughs | Hugh Myddelton | |
Flintshire | Roger Puleston | |
Flint | Roger Brereton | |
Glamorgan | Philip Herbert | Herbert ennobled - replaced by Sir Thomas Mansell |
Cardiff | Matthew Davies | |
Merioneth | Sir Edward Herbert | |
Montgomeryshire | William Herbert | |
Montgomery | ||
Pembrokeshire | Alban Stepney | |
Pembroke | Richard Cuney | |
Haverfordwest | James Perrot | |
Radnorshire | James Price | BW gives (of Pilleth) |
Radnor | Sir Robert Harley |
See also[]
- List of Parliaments of England
Notes[]
This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (March 2015) |
References[]
- Brunton, D.; Pennington, D. H. (1954). Members of the Long Parliament. London: George Allen & Unwin.
- Cobbett, William, ed. (1808). Comprising the period from the Battle of Edge-Hill, in October 1642, to the restoration of Charles the Second, in April 1660. Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803. Vol. 3. London: R. Bagshaw. pp. 1535, 1536.
- Willis, Browne (1750). "First Parliament, at Westminster, Anno 1 James I. 1603.". Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 156-166.
- Parliaments of James I of England
- 1604 in England
- Lists of Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707)
- 1604 in politics
- English MPs 1604–1611