List of MPs elected to the English parliament in 1621
This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the 3rd parliament in the reign of King James I in 1621.

Sir Thomas Richardson – Speaker
The parliament began on 30 January 1621 and was held to 27 March 1621. It met again on 17 April 1621 and was held to 4 June 1621. It met again on 14 November 1621 and was dissolved on 8 February 1622.
List of constituencies and members

Sir Bevil Grenville, Cornwall

Edward Coke, Liskeard

William Noy, Helston

Sir Heneage Finch, West Looe

John Hampden, Grampound

Sir Thomas Malet, Tregoney

John, Lord Pawlett, St Ives

Sir Henry Vane, Carlisle

William Cavendish Derbyshire

Sir John Glanville, Plymouth

Sir Baptist Hicks, Tavistock

Sir Julius Caesar, Maldon

Sir Thomas Roe, Cirencester

Sir Dudley Digges, Tewkesbury

Benjamin Rudyerd, Portsmouth

Sir James Whitelocke, Woodstock

Edward Sackvile, Sussex

Edward Cecil, Chichester

Sir Lionel Cranfield, Arundel

Fulke Greville, Warwickshire
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Sir John Coke, Warwick

Sir Arthur Ingram, Appleby

James Ley, Westbury

John Pym, Calne
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William Seymour, Marlborough

Sir Thomas Edmondes, Bewdley

George Calvert, Yorkshire
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Sir Thomas Wentworth, Yorkshire

Sir Richard Hutton, Knaresborough

Ferdinando Fairfax, Boroughbridge
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Sir Edwin Sandys, Sandwich

Richard Zouch, Hythe

Sir Edward Nicholas, Winchelsea

Sir Hugh Myddelton, Denbigh
In 1621 the constituencies of Pontefract and Ilchester were re-enfranchised after the Committee of Privileges investigated abuses where the right of boroughs to return buugesses had fallen into disuse.[1]
Bedfordshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
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Bedfordshire | Sir Beauchamp St John Sir Oliver Luke |
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Bedford | Sir Alexander St John Richard Taylor |
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Berkshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Berkshire | Sir Richard Lovelace Sir Robert Knollys |
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Windsor | Sir Charles Howard Sir Robert Bennet |
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Reading | Anthony Barker John Saunders |
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Wallingford | Sir George Simeon Samuel Dunch |
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Abingdon | Robert Hyde | |
Buckinghamshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Buckinghamshire | Sir Francis Goodwin Sir William Fleetwood |
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Buckingham | Sir Thomas Denton Richard Oliver |
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Wycombe | Richard Lovelace Arthur Goodwin |
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Aylesbury | Sir John Dormer Henry Borlase |
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Cambridgeshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cambridgeshire | Sir Edward Peyton, 2nd Baronet Sir John Cutts |
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Cambridge University | Robert Naunton Barnaby Gough |
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Cambridge | Richard Foxton Thomas Meautys |
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Cheshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cheshire | Sir William Brereton Sir Richard Grosvenor |
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City of Chester | Edward Whitby John Ratcliffe |
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Cornwall | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cornwall | Bevil Grenville John Arundell |
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Launceston | John Harris Thomas Bond |
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Liskeard | Sir Edward Coke Nicholas Hele |
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Lostwithiel | Edward Salter George Chudleigh |
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Truro | Barnaby Gough John Trefusis |
Gough/Gooch sat for Cambridge replaced by Sir John Catcher Browne Willis gives Samuel for John Trefusis |
Bodmin | Sir John Trevor James Bagg |
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Helston | William Noy Thomas Stafford |
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Saltash | Sir Thomas Trevor Sir Thomas Smith |
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Westlow | Heneage Finch Christopher Harris |
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Grampound | John Hampden Sir Robert Carey |
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Eastlow | Sir John Walter Jerome Horsey |
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Camelford | Sir Henry Carey Edward Carr |
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Penryn | Robert Jermyn Sir Francis Crane |
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Tregoney | William Hakewill Thomas Malet |
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St Ives | John Lord Pawlet Robert Bacon |
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Mitchel | Richard Carew John St Aubyn |
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Bossiney | John Wood Ambrose Manaton |
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Fowey | Jonathan Rashleigh John Treffry |
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St Germans | Richard Tisdale Sir Richard Buller |
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St Mawes | Edward Wrightington William Hockmere |
Brown Wilis gives John for William Hockmere |
Newport | Sir Edward Barrett Sir Robert Killigrew |
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Callington | Henry Rolle James Lord Wriothesley |
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Cumberland | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cumberland | Sir George Dalston Sir Henry Curwen |
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Carlisle | Sir Henry Vane George Butler |
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Derbyshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Derbyshire | William Lord Cavendish Sir Peter Fretchville |
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Derby | Edward Leech Timothy Leeving (Recorder) |
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Devon | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Devon | Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet John Drake |
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Exeter | John Prowse Ignatius Jordan |
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Totnes | Sir Edward Giles Richard Rood (merchant) |
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Barnstaple | John Delbridge Pentecost Dodderidge |
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Plymouth | John Glanville Thomas Sherville (merchant) |
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Plympton Erle | Sir William Strode Sir Warwick Hele |
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Tavistock | Francis Glanville Sir Baptist Hicks |
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Bere Alston | Thomas Wise Thomas Keighley of London |
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Clifton Dartmouth Hardness | William Nyell (merchant) Roger Matthew (Merchant) |
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Tiverton | John Bampfield John Davie |
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Dorset | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Dorset | Sir John Strangways Sir Thomas Trenchard |
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Dorchester | Sir Francis Ashley John Parkins |
Ashley resigned his place for Sir Thomas Edmondes and when Edmondes chose another seat he was re-elected for Dorchester |
Poole | Sir Walter Erle Sir George Hussey |
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Shaftesbury | Thomas Sheppard William Beecher |
Both expelled – replaced by Percy Herbert and Ralph Hopton |
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | John Freke Christopher Erle Matthew Pitt Giles Green |
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Lyme Regis | John Poulett Robert Hassard |
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Wareham | Sir William Pitt John Trenchard |
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Bridport | John Strode John Browne |
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Corfe Castle | Sir Thomas Hatton, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Hammond |
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Essex | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Essex | Sir Francis Barrington Bt Sir John Deane |
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Colchester | William Towse Edward Alford |
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Maldon | Julius Caesar Henry Mildmay |
BW has the members for Maldon and Harwich transposed, which looks to be an error |
Harwich | Sir Thomas Cheek Edward Grimston |
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Gloucestershire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Gloucestershire | Sir Robert Tracy Sir Maurice Berkeley |
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Gloucester | John Browne Anthony Robinson |
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Cirencester | Sir Thomas Roe Thomas Nicholas |
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Tewkesbury | Sir Dudley Diggs Giles Brydges |
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Hampshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hampshire | Sir Henry Wallop Sir John Jephson |
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Winchester | Richard Tichborne William Savage |
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Southampton | Sir Thomas Fleming Henry Sherfield |
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Portsmouth | Sir Daniel Norton Sir Benjamin Rudyerd |
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Petersfield | Richard Norton Sir John Hippisley |
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Newtown | John Ferrar Sir Thomas Barrington, 2nd Baronet |
Ferrar sat for Tamworth- replaced by Sir William Harington |
Newport | Sir Richard Worsley, 1st Baronet Sir William Uvedale |
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Yarmouth | Arthur Bromfield Thomas Risley |
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Christchurch | Sir George Hastings Nathaniel Tomkins |
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Stockbridge | Sir Richard Gifford Sir William Ayloffe, 1st Baronet |
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Whitchurch | Thomas Jervoise Sir Robert Oxenbridge |
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Lymington | Sir William Doddington Henry Compton |
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Andover | John Shuter Richard Venables |
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Herefordshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Herefordshire | Sir John Scudamore Fitzwilliam Coningsby |
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Hereford | John Rodd Richard Weaver |
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Leominster | Francis Smallman William Beecher |
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Hertfordshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hertfordshire | Sir Henry Cary Sir Charles Morrison, 1st Baronet |
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St Albans | Thomas Richardson Robert Shute |
Richardson was Speaker |
Hertford | William Ashton Thomas Fanshawe |
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Huntingdonshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Huntingdonshire | Richard Beavill Sir Robert Payne |
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Huntingdon | Sir Henry St John Miles Sandys |
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Kent | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Kent | Robert Viscount Lisle Sir George Fane |
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Canterbury | John Finch Sir Robert Newington |
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Rochester | Sir Thomas Walsingham (younger) Henry Clerke |
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Queenborough | James Palmer William Frowde |
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Maidstone | Sir Francis Fane Sir Francis Barnham |
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Lancashire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Lancashire | Sir John Ratcliffe Sir Gilbert Hoghton, 2nd Baronet |
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Lancaster | Sir Humphrey May Sir Thomas Fanshawe |
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Preston | Sir Edward Mosley Sir William Pooley |
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Clitheroe | Sir Thomas Walmsley William Fanshawe |
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Liverpool | Thomas May William Johnson |
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Wigan | Sir Thomas Gerard, 1st Baronet Roger Downes |
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Newton | Sir George Wright Richard Kippax |
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Leicestershire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Leicestershire | Sir George Hastings Sir Henry Hastings |
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Leicester | Sir Richard Moryson Sir William Herrick |
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Lincolnshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Lincolnshire | Sir George Manners Sir Thomas Grantham |
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Lincoln | Sir Lewis Watson, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Ayscough |
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Boston | Sir Thomas Cheek Anthony Irby |
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Grimsby | Sir Christopher Wray Henry Pelham |
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Grantham | Sir William Airmine Clement Cotterell |
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Stamford | Richard Cecil John Wingfield |
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Middlesex | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Middlesex | Sir Francis Darcy Sir Gilbert Gerard, Bt |
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Westminster | Sir Edward Villiers Edmund Doubleday |
Doubleday died 3 days after election - replaced by William Mann |
City of London | Sir Thomas Lowe Robert Heath Robert Bateman William Towerson |
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Monmouthshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Monmouthshire | Sir Edmund Morgan Charles Williams |
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Monmouth Boroughs | Thomas Ravenscroft | |
Norfolk | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Norfolk | Sir Hamon le Strange Drue Drury |
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Norwich | Sir Robert Rous William Denny |
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King's Lynn | Sir Matthew Clerke John Wallis |
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Yarmouth | Benjamin Cooper Edward Owner |
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Castle Rising | John Wilson Robert Spiller |
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Thetford | Sir Thomas Holland Framlingham Gawdy |
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Northamptonshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Northamptonshire | Sir William Spencer Sir Edward Montagu |
Montagu became a peer - replaced by Richard Knightley |
Peterborough | Mildmay Fane Walter Fitzwilliam |
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Northampton | Richard Spencer Thomas Crew |
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Brackley | Edward Spencer Sir Thomas Wenman |
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Higham Ferrers | Charles Montagu | |
Northumberland | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Northumberland | Sir William Grey Sir Henry Widdrington |
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Newcastle | Sir Henry Anderson Sir Thomas Ridell |
BW gives Sir Francis for Sir Henry Anderson |
Morpeth | Robert Brandling John Robson |
Election of Robson, a Clergyman, invalidated - replaced by Ralph Fetherstonhaugh |
Berwick upon Tweed | Sir John Selby Sir Robert Jackson |
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Nottinghamshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Nottinghamshire | Sir Gervase Clifton Sir George Chaworth |
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Nottingham | Michael Purefoy George Lassells |
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East Retford | Sir Nathaniel Rich Edward Wortley |
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Oxfordshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Oxfordshire | Sir Richard Wenman Sir William Cope |
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Oxford University | Sir John Bennet Sir Clement Edmondes |
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Oxford | Sir John Brooke Thomas Wentworth |
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Woodstock | Sir James Whitelocke Philip Cary |
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Banbury | Sir William Cope | |
Rutland | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Rutland | Sir Guy Palmes William Bulstrode |
BW corrigenda changes Palmer to Palmes |
Salop | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Shropshire | Sir Robert Vernon Sir Francis Kynaston |
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Shrewsbury | Sir Richard Newport Francis Berkeley |
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Bridgnorth | Sir John Hayward William Whitmore |
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Ludlow | Spencer Compton, Lord Compton Richard Tomlins |
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Wenlock | Sir Edward Lawley Thomas Wolryche |
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Bishops Castle | Francis Roberts Gilbert Cornwall |
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Somerset | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Somerset | Charles Berkley Robert Hopton |
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Bristol | John Whitson John Guy |
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Bath | Sir Robert Phelips Sir Robert Pye |
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Wells | Sir Edward Rodney Thomas Southwood |
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Taunton | Thomas Brereton Lewis Pope |
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Bridgwater | Edward Popham Roger Warre |
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Minehead | Francis Pearce Sir Robert Lloyd |
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Ilchester | Richard Wynn | |
Staffordshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Staffordshire | Sir William Bowyer Thomas Crompton |
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Lichfield | William Wingfield Richard Weston |
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Stafford | Matthew Cradock Sir Richard Dyott |
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Newcastle under Lyme | John Davies Edward Kyrton |
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Tamworth | Sir Thomas Puckering Bt John Ferrers |
BW corrigenda changes Ferrers from Henry to John |
Suffolk | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Suffolk | Sir Robert Crane, 1st Baronet Thomas Clinch |
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Ipswich | Robert Snelling William Cage |
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Dunwich | Clement Coke Thomas Bedingfield |
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Aldeburgh | Sir Henry Glemham Charles Glemham |
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Orford | Sir Lionel Tollemache Sir Roger Townshend |
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Eye | Sir Roger North Sir John Crompton |
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Sudbury | Edward Osbourne Brampton Gurdon |
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Bury St Edmunds | Sir Thomas Jermyn John Woodford |
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Surrey | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Surrey | Sir George More Sir Nicholas Carew |
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Southwark | Richard Yarward Robert Bromfield |
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Reigate | Thomas Glemham Robert Lewis |
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Bletchingly | John Hayward Henry Lovell |
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Gatton | Sir Thomas Gresham Thomas Bludder |
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Guildford | Sir Robert More John Murray |
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Haslemere | Sir Thomas Grimes Sir William Browne |
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Sussex | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Sussex | Sir Edward Sackville Christopher Neville |
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Chichester | Sir Edward Cecil Thomas Whatman |
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Horsham | Thomas Cornwallis John Middleton |
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Midhurst | John Smith Richard Lewknor |
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Steyning | Thomas Shirley Sir Edward Fraunceys |
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Lewes | Sir George Goring Richard Amhurst |
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New Shoreham | Sir John Morley Sir John Leedes |
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Bramber | Thomas Bowyer Robert Morley |
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Arundel | Sir Lionel Cranfield Sir Henry Spiller |
Cranfield created a peer, Sep 1622 and replaced Nov 1622 by Sir Richard Weston |
East Grinstead | Sir Henry Compton Thomas Pelham |
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Warwickshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Warwickshire | Sir Fulke Greville Sir Thomas Lucy |
Greville ennobled - replaced by Sir Francis Leigh |
Coventry | Sampson Hopkins Henry Sewall |
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Warwick | Sir Greville Verney Sir John Coke |
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Westmorland | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Westmorland | Sir Henry Clifford Sir Thomas Wharton |
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Appleby | Sir Arthur Ingram Thomas Hughes |
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Wiltshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Wiltshire | Sir Francis Seymour Sir Edward Bayntun |
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Salisbury | Roger Gauntlett Thomas Hussey |
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Wilton | Sir Thomas Tracy Henry Nevill |
Nevill ennobled in 1622 - replaced by Thomas Morgan |
Downton | Sir Carew Raleigh Thomas Hinton |
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Devizes | Sir Henry Ley John Kent |
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Great Bedwyn | Sir Francis Popham Sir Giles Mompesson |
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Malmesbury | Sir Henry Poole Sir Edward Wardour |
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Ludgershall | Alexander Chocke William Sotwell |
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Chippenham | Edward Hungerford John Baily |
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Westbury | Sir James Ley Sir Miles Fleetwood |
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Cricklade | Thomas Howard Sir Carew Reynell |
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Hindon | Sir Edmund Ludlow Sir John Davies |
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Old Sarum | George Myne Thomas Brett |
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Calne | John Duckett John Pym |
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Heytesbury | Sir Thomas Thynne Henry Ludlow |
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Marlborough | William Seymour, Lord Beauchamp Richard Digges |
Seymour ennobled in 1621 and replaced by Sir Walter Devereux |
Wootton Bassett | Richard Harrison John Wrenham |
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Worcestershire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Worcestershire | Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet Sir Samuel Sandys |
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Worcester | Sir Robert Berkley John Coucher |
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Droitwich | Sir Thomas Coventry John Wilde |
Coventry replaced by Ralph Clare |
Evesham | Sir Thomas Biggs, 1st Baronet Anthony Langston |
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Bewdley | Sir Thomas Edmondes | |
Yorkshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Yorkshire | Sir George Calvert Sir Thomas Wentworth |
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York | Sir Robert Askwith (Alderman) Christopher Brooke |
Brown WIllis gives Christopher Broderick for Brooke |
Kingston upon Hull | John Lister Maurice Abbot |
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Scarborough | Sir Richard Cholmeley William Conyers |
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Knaresborough | Sir Henry Slingsby Sir Richard Hutton |
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Richmond | Sir Talbot Bowes William Bowes |
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Beverley | Sir Christopher Hilliard Edmund Scott |
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Aldborough | Christopher Wandesford John Carvile |
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Thirsk | Thomas Belasyse John Belasyse |
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Hedon | Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Fairfax of Walton |
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Ripon | Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby William Mallory |
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Pontefract | George Skillet Edwin Sandys |
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Boroughbridge | Sir Ferdinando Fairfax George Withered |
Listed in Browne Willis corrigenda |
Cinque Ports | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hastings | Samuel Moore James Lasher |
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Dover | Sir Henry Mainwaring Sir Richard Young |
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Sandwich | Sir Edwin Sandys Sir Robert Hatton |
Hatton's election declared void - replaced by John Burroughes |
Romney | Francis Fetherston Sir Peter Manwood |
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Hythe | Sir Peter Heyman Richard Zouche |
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Rye | Emanuel Gifford John Angell |
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Winchelsea | Sir Thomas Finch Edward Nicholas |
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Wales | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Anglesey | Richard Williams | |
Beaumaris | Sampson Eure | |
Brecknockshire | Sir Henry Williams | |
Brecknock | Walter Pye | |
Cardiganshire | Richard Pryse | |
Cardigan | Walter Overbury | |
Carmarthenshire | Sir John Vaughan | |
Carmarthen | Henry Vaughan | |
Carnarvonshire | John Griffith | |
Carnarvon | Nicholas Griffith | |
Denbighshire | Sir John Trevor | |
Denbigh Boroughs | Hugh Myddelton | |
Flintshire | Sir Roger Mostyn | |
Flint | William Ravenscroft | |
Glamorgan | William Price | |
Cardiff | William Herbert | |
Merioneth | William Salisbury | |
Montgomeryshire | Sir William Herbert | |
Montgomery | Edward Herbert | |
Pembrokeshire | John Wogan | |
Pembroke | Lewis Powell | |
Haverford West | Sir James Perrot | |
Radnorshire | James Price | |
Radnor | Charles Price |
See also
- List of Parliaments of England
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)
- Willis, Browne (1750). 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. p. 176–186.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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