List of MPs elected to the English parliament in 1626
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This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the second parliament in the reign of King Charles I in 1626.
The second parliament began on 6 February 1626 and was held to 15 June 1626 when it was dissolved.
List of constituencies and members[]
Bedfordshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
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Bedfordshire | Oliver St John Sir Oliver Luke |
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Bedford | Sir Beauchamp St John Richard Taylor |
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Berkshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Berkshire | John Fettiplace Edmund Dunch |
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Windsor | William Russell |
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Reading | Sir Francis Knollys John Saunders |
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Wallingford | Sir Anthony Forrest Unton Croke |
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Abingdon | Sir Robert Knollys | |
Buckinghamshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Buckinghamshire | Sir Francis Goodwin Sir Thomas Denton |
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Buckingham | Sir Alexander Denton |
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Wycombe | Henry Coke Edmund Waller |
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Aylesbury | Clement Coke Arthur Goodwin |
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Amersham | ||
Wendover | John Hampden Sir Sampson Darrell |
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Marlow | John Backhouse Sir William Hicks, 1st Baronet |
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Cambridgeshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cambridgeshire | Sir Edward Peyton, 2nd Baronet Sir John Cutts |
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Cambridge University | Thomas Eden Sir John Coke |
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Cambridge | Thomas Meautys |
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Cheshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cheshire | Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet Peter Daniell |
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City of Chester | Edward Whitby |
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Cornwall[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cornwall | William Coryton Sir Francis Godolphin |
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Launceston | Bevil Grenville |
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Liskeard | Joseph Jane |
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Lostwithiel | Sir Robert Mansell Reginald Mohun |
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Truro | Francis Rous Henry Rolle |
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Bodmin | Henry Jermyn Sir Richard Weston |
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Helston | Francis Godolphin Francis Carew |
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Saltash | Sir John Hayward Sir Richard Buller |
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Camelford | Sir Thomas Monk |
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Grampound | Sir Thomas St Aubyn |
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Eastlow | Sir John Trevor |
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Westlow | Sir John Wolstenholme, 1st Baronet |
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Penryn | Sir Edwin Sandys |
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Tregoney | Thomas Carey Sir Robert Killigrew |
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Bossiney | Lord Lambart Paul Specot |
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St Ives | Benjamin Tichborne |
Tichborne sat for Petersfield - replaced by William Noy |
Fowey | Arthur Bassett William Murray |
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St Germans | Sir John Eliot Sir Henry Marten |
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Mitchell | Francis Crossing |
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Newport | Sir Henry Hungate |
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St Mawes | Lord Carey |
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Callington | Clipsby Crew John Rolle |
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Cumberland[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cumberland | Sir George Dalston Sir Patricius Curwen Bart |
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Carlisle | Sir Henry Vane Richard Graham |
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Derbyshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Derbyshire | William Lord Cavendish John Manners |
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Derby | Sir Henry Crofts |
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Devon[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Devon | John Drake |
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Exeter | Ignatius Jordan |
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Totnes | Arthur Champernoun Philip Holditch |
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Plymouth | (merchant) |
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Barnstaple | Sir Alexander St John John Delbridge |
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Plympton Erle | Sir Thomas Hele, 1st Baronet William Strode |
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Tavistock | John Pym John Ratcliffe |
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Clifton Dartmouth Hardness | John Upton (Merchant) |
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Bere Alston | Thomas Wise William Strode |
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Tiverton | John Drake Peter Ball |
Drake chose to sit for Devon - replaced by |
Dorset[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Dorset | Sir George Morton Sir Thomas Freke |
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Poole | Christopher Erle John Pyne |
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Dorchester | Richard Bushrode Michael Humphreys |
Humphreys died - replaced by William Whiteway |
Lyme Regis | Walter Erle |
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Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | Sir John Strangways Giles Green |
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Bridport | Lewis Dyve Sir Richard Strode |
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Shaftesbury | Samuel Turner William Whitmore |
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Wareham | Nathaniel Napier |
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Corfe Castle | Sir Robert Napier |
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Essex[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Essex | Sir Francis Barrington Bt Harbottle Grimston (senior). |
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Colchester | William Towse Edward Alford. |
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Maldon | Sir William Masham, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Cheek |
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Harwich | Nathaniel Rich Christopher Harris |
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Gloucestershire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Gloucestershire | Sir Robert Tracy Sir Robert Pointz |
Browne Willis gives Sir Maurice Berkeley and John Dutton |
Gloucester | Christopher Caple John Browne |
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Cirencester | Sir Neville Poole John George |
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Tewkesbury | Sir Dudley Diggs Sir Baptist Hicks |
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Hampshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hampshire | Sir Henry Wallop Robert Wallop |
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Winchester | Richard Tichborne Henry Whitehead |
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Southampton | Sir John Mill, 1st Baronet George Gallop |
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Portsmouth | Sir James Fullerton |
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Petersfield | Benjamin Tichborne William Uvedale |
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Yarmouth | Sir Edward Conway John Oglander |
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Newport | Christopher Yelverton Philip Fleming |
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Stockbridge | Sir Thomas Badger |
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Newtown | Sir Thomas Barrington, 2nd Baronet Thomas Malet |
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Lymington | Herbert Doddington John More |
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Christchurch | Nathaniel Tomkins |
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Whitchurch | Sir Thomas Jervoise Sir Robert Oxenbridge |
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Andover | Lord Henry Paulet |
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Herefordshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Herefordshire | Sir Robert Harley Sir Walter Pye |
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Hereford | James Clerke Richard Weaver |
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Leominster | James Tomkins Edward Littleton |
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Hertfordshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hertfordshire | Sir Thomas Dacres |
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St Albans | Sir Charles Morrison, 1st Baronet |
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Hertford | Sir William Harrington Sir Capell Bedell, 1st Baronet |
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Huntingdonshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Huntingdonshire | Edward Montagu Sir Robert Payne |
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Huntingdon | Sir Arthur Mainwaring |
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Kent[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Kent | Sir Edward Hales, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Scott |
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Canterbury | Sir John Finch James Palmer |
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Rochester | Henry Clerke (Sir) Thomas Walsingham (elder) |
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Maidstone | Sir George Fane Francis Barnham |
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Queenborough | Roger Palmer |
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Lancashire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Lancashire | Robert Stanley Gilbert Hoghton |
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Preston | George Gerard Thomas Fanshawe |
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Lancaster | Thomas Jermyn Sir Thomas Fanshawe |
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Newton | Sir Miles Fleetwood Sir Henry Edmonds |
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Wigan | Sir Anthony St John Sir William Pooley |
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Clitheroe | Sir Ralph Assheton George Kirke |
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Liverpool | Edward Bridgeman |
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Leicestershire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Leicestershire | Sir Henry Hastings Francis Staresmore |
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Leicester | Sir Humphrey May Sir George Hastings |
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Lincolnshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Lincolnshire | Sir William Airmine John Monson |
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Lincoln | Sir Thomas Grantham |
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Boston | Sir Edward Barkham |
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Grimsby | Henry Pelham William Skinner |
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Stamford | Montagu Bertie Brian Palmes |
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Grantham | John Wingfield |
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Middlesex[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Middlesex | Sir Edward Spencer Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1st Baronet of Harrow on the Hill |
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Westminster | Sir Robert Pye |
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City of London | Sir Thomas Middleton Heneage Finch Sir Robert Bateman Sir Maurice Abbot |
Finch was Speaker |
Monmouthshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Monmouthshire | William Herbert Nicholas Arnold |
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Monmouth Boroughs | William Fortesue | |
Norfolk[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Norfolk | Sir Edward Coke Sir Robert Bell |
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Norwich | Sir John Suckling |
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King's Lynn | |
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Yarmouth | Sir John Corbet (Alderman) |
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Thetford | Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet Framlingham Gawdy |
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Castle Rising | Sir Hamon le Strange Sir Thomas Bancroft |
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Northamptonshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Northamptonshire | Sir William Spencer |
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Peterborough | Mildmay Lord Burleigh Laurence Whitaker |
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Northampton | Richard Spencer |
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Brackley | Sir John Hobart John Crew |
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Higham Ferrers | Sir Thomas Dacres | Sat for Hertfordshire and replaced by Sir George Sondes |
Northumberland[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Northumberland | Sir John Fenwick Sir John Delaval |
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Newcastle | Sir Peter Riddel Sir Henry Anderson |
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Morpeth | Sir Thomas Reynell John Bankes |
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Berwick upon Tweed | Sir Robert Jackson |
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Nottinghamshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Nottinghamshire | Henry Stanhope Sir Thomas Hutchinson |
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Nottingham | Sir Gervase Clifton John Byron |
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East Retford | John Lord Haughton Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Baronet |
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Oxfordshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Oxfordshire | Hon. James Fiennes Sir Thomas 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 | Edward Tavernor Sir Gerard Fleetwood |
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Banbury | ||
Rutland[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Rutland | Sir Francis Bodenham |
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Salop[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Shropshire | Sir Rowland Cotton Sir Richard Leveson |
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Shrewsbury | Thomas Owen |
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Bridgnorth | Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Baronet George Vernon |
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Ludlow | Richard Tomlins Ralph Goodwin |
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Wenlock | Thomas Lawley Francis Smallman |
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Bishops Castle | ||
Somerset[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Somerset | Sir Henry Berkeley |
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Bristol | John Doughty John Whitson |
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Bath | Richard Gay William Chapman |
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Wells | Sir Edward Rodney Sir Thomas Lake |
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Taunton | Sir Robert Gorges George Browne |
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Bridgwater | Sir Arthur Lake Edward Popham |
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Minehead | |
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Ilchester | Sir William Beecher Robert Caesar |
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Staffordshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Staffordshire | Sir Simon Weston Sir William Bowyer |
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Lichfield | Sir Richard Dyott |
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Stafford | Sir John Ottley Bulstrode Whitlock |
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Newcastle under Lyme | Sir John Skeffington, 2nd Baronet John Keeling |
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Tamworth | Sir Thomas Puckering Sir Walter Devereux |
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Suffolk[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Suffolk | Sir Robert Naunton Sir Robert Crane |
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Ipswich | |
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Dunwich | Thomas Bedingfield |
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Orford | Robert Hitcham |
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Eye | Francis Finch Sir Roger North |
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Aldeburgh | Sir Thomas Glemham |
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Sudbury | Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston Thomas Smith |
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Bury St Edmunds | Sir Thomas Jermyn Emanuel Gifford |
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Surrey[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Surrey | Sir Richard Onslow Sir Ambrose Browne |
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Southwark | Richard Yarward |
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Bletchingley | Edward Bysshe |
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Reigate | Thomas Bludder Sir William Monson |
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Guildford | Robert Parkhurst, jnr |
Shilton did not take his seat, and was replaced by Sir William Morley |
Gatton | Sir Samuel Owfield |
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Haslemere | Sir Francis Carew Poynings More |
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Sussex[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Sussex | Sir Walter Covert Sir Alexander Temple |
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Chichester | Algernon Lord Peircy Humphrey Haggett |
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Horsham | John Borough John Middleton |
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Midhurst | Richard Lewknor Sir Henry Spiller |
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Lewes | Sir George Goring Sir George Rivers |
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New Shoreham | John Alford William Marlott |
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Bramber | Thomas Bowyer |
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Steyning | Sir Edward Fraunceys Edward Bishopp |
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East Grinstead | Sir Henry Compton Robert Goodwin |
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Arundel | |
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Warwickshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Warwickshire | Sir Thomas Lucy Sir Clement Throckmorton |
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Coventry | |
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Warwick | Sir Francis Leigh, Bt. Francis Lucy |
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Westmorland[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Westmoreland | Sir Henry Bellingham |
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Appleby | Sir William Slingsby William Ashton |
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Wiltshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Wiltshire | Sir Henry Poole Sir Walter Long |
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Salisbury | Henry Sherfield John Puxton |
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Wilton | Sir John Evelyn |
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Downton | Edward Herbert Sir William Trumbull |
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Hindon | Sir Thomas Thynne Thomas Lambert |
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Heytesbury | Sir Charles Berkeley |
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Westbury | Sir Walter Long |
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Calne | (senior) |
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Chippenham | Sir Edmund Bayntun Sir Francis Popham |
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Devizes | Robert Long Sir Henry Ley |
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Malmesbury | Sir Henry Moody |
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Cricklade | Sir William Howard Sir Robert Hyde |
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Ludgershall | /Sir Thomas Hinton |
Unresolved double return - BW corrigenda includes Jaye |
Great Bedwyn | John Selden Sir Maurice Berkeley |
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Old Sarum | Michael Oldisworth Sir Benjamin Rudyerd |
BW corrigenda gives Christopher Keightley in place of Rudyerd |
Wootton Bassett | Sir John Francklyn Sir Thomas Lake |
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Marlborough | Richard Digges Edward Kyrton |
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Worcestershire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Worcestershire | Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet Sir John Rouse |
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Worcester | John Spelman John Haselock |
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Droitwich | John Wilde Thomas Coventry |
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Evesham | Sir John Hare Anthony Langston |
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Bewdley | Ralph Clare | |
Yorkshire[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Yorkshire | Sir John Savile Sir William Constable |
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York | Sir Arthur Ingram Christopher Brooke |
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Kingston upon Hull | John Lister |
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Knaresborough | Sir Richard Hutton Henry Benson |
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Scarborough | Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet Stephen Hutchinson |
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Ripon | Thomas Best Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby |
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Richmond | Christopher Wandesford Matthew Hutton |
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Hedon | Sir Thomas Fairfax Sir Christopher Hillyard |
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Boroughbridge | Sir Ferdinando Fairfax Philip Mainwaring |
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Thirsk | Henry Belasyse William Cholmeley |
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Aldborough | Richard Aldborough John Carvile |
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Beverley | Sir John Hotham Bt |
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Pontefract | Sir John Jackson Sir Francis Foljambe, 1st Baronet |
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Cinque Ports[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hastings | Sir Dudley Carleton Nicholas Eversfield |
Carleton ennobled and replaced 1626 by |
Romney | Richard Godfrey |
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Hythe | Sir Peter Heyman |
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Dover | John Hippisley John Pringle |
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Sandwich | Sir John Suckling |
Suckling chose to sit for Norwich, replaced by Sir Edward Boys |
Rye | Sir John Sackville | |
Winchelsea | Roger Twysden Sir Nicholas Saunders |
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Wales[] | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Anglesey | Richard Bulkeley | |
Beaumaris | Charles Jones | |
Brecknockshire | ||
Brecknock | Walter Pye | chose for Herefordshire - replaced by Humphrey Lynde |
Cardiganshire | James Lewis | |
Cardigan | Walter Overbury | |
Carmarthenshire | (Sir) Richard Vaughan | |
Carmarthen | Henry Vaughan | |
Carnarvonshire | John Griffith | |
Carnarvon | Edward Littleton | |
Denbighshire | Sir Eubule Thelwall | |
Denbigh Boroughs | Hugh Myddleton | |
Flintshire | John Salusbury | |
Flint | William Ravenscroft | |
Glamorgan | Sir John Stradling, 1st Baronet | |
Cardiff | William Price | |
Merioneth | Edward Vaughan | |
Montgomeryshire | Sir William Herbert | |
Montgomery | Sir Henry Herbert | |
Pembrokeshire | John Wogan | |
Pembroke | Hugh Owen | |
Haverford West | Sir Thomas Canon | |
Radnorshire | James Price | |
Radnor | Charles Price |
See also[]
- List of Parliaments of England
- 2nd Parliament of King Charles I
References[]
- D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
- Browne Willis Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences 1750 pp218-
- Yorkshire List of Parliamentary Representatives, from 1542 to 1640
Categories:
- Parliaments of Charles I of England
- 1626 in England
- 1626 in politics
- Lists of Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707)
- English MPs 1626