Appendix IV: Sources for the names of Members
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
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Sources for names of Members
Parl. | O[fficial] R[eturn of Members of Parl.] | Returns in P[ublic] R[ecord] O[ffice] not calendared in OR | Returns outside PRO | Add 341501 | Crown Office List | Civic, Municipal and Parish Records | Lords Jnls. | Com- mons Jnls. | Acts of Parl. | State Papers and other sources in PRO | Misc. | Total Names known for each Parl. | |
1510 | 2 | - | - | 5 | - | 43 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 53 | |
1512 | 2 | - | - | 62 | - | 513 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 14 | 63 | |
1515 | 2 | - | 2 | -5 | - | 506 | 2 | - | - | 3 | - | 59 | |
1523 | 1 | - | - | 6 | - | 43 | - | - | - | 9 | 27 | 61 | |
1529 | 318 | - | - | 2 | - | 10 | - | - | 1 | 158 | 19 | 347 | |
1536 | - | - | - | -10 | - | 3211 | 1 | - | 9 | 1912 | - | 61 | |
1539 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 40 | 3 | - | - | 99 | 213 | 146 | |
1542 | 147 | 4 | - | 1 | - | 42 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 214 | 200 | |
1545 | 238 | - | - | - | - | 25 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 264 | |
1547 | 198 | 16 | 2 | - | 198 | 5 | - | 6 | - | - | - | 425 | |
1553 (Mar.) | 260 | 15 | 2 | 5 | - | 17 | - | 6 | - | - | 115 | 306 | |
1553 (Oct.) | 333 | - | - | - | 53 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 386 | |
1554 (Apr.) | 386 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 116 | 388 | |
1554 (Nov.) | 299 | 1 | - | - | 93 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 393 | |
1555 | 351 | 6 | - | - | - | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | 817 | 371 | |
1558 | 391 | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 394 |
Ref Volumes: 1509-1558
Author: S. T. Bindoff
End Notes
- 1. A list of names of Members for the Cinque Ports compiled in the early 17th century by Sir Edward Dering†from the original returns preserved at Dover castle.
- 2. Excluding John Ashburnham I and Robert Sparrow as the evidence may refer to the Parliament of 1515.
- 3. Excluding John Clere and John Makin as the evidence may refer to the Parliament of 1515.
- 4. Cott. Galba D5, f. 366.
- 5. Excluding John Ashburnham I and Robert Sparrow as the evidence may refer to the previous Parliament.
- 6. Excluding John Clere and John Makin as the evidence may refer to the previous Parliament.
- 7. Hall, Chron. 657; Roper, Life of More (EETS cxcvii), 18.
- 8. Excluding William Ashby as the evidence may refer to the Parliament of 1536.
- 9. Strype, Whitgift, ii. 124-5.
- 10. Excluding Stephen Harry and John Hull I as the list gives no date for the Parliament.
- 11. Excluding William Biddlecombe, William Chandler, John Cother and William Fleming as the evidence may refer to the Parliament of 1529.
- 12. Excluding William Ashby as the evidence may refer to the previous Parliament.
- 13. Loseley Pk. Loseley mss box 2, ex inf. Dr. G.H. Glanville; Foxe, Acts and Mons. v. 505.
- 14. Hatfield 140/13; herald’s tricking bk. in the possession of T.M. Hofmann in 1972.
- 15. Lansd. 3, f. 75.
- 16. G. Burnet, Hist. Ref. ii. 447-8.
- 17. Guildford mus. Loseley 1331/2.