Flintshire

County

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
Available from Boydell and Brewer

Elections

DateCandidate
30 Jan. 1559JOHN GRIFFITH I
1562/3GEORGE RAVENSCROFT
1571JOHN GRIFFITH I
1572WILLIAM MOSTYN
4 Feb. 1577THOMAS MOSTYN vice Mostyn, deceased1
2 Nov. 1584JOHN HOPE
3 Oct. 1586WILLIAM RAVENSCROFT
28 Oct. 1588ROGER PULESTON II
1593THOMAS HANMER
19 Sept. 1597WILLIAM RAVENSCROFT
12 Oct. 1601WILLIAM RAVENSCROFT

Main Article

The representation of Flintshire during this period was in the hands of a group of leading county families related to one another by marriage. Although several of the MPs were related to such powerful patrons as the earls of Derby and Thomas Egerton I, the lord keeper, there is no hint of any outside interference in the county elections. The only MP who requires comment is William Ravenscroft (1586, 1597, 1601), who may have been elected to the county seat in preference to his father and elder brother because he was already in London, practising as a lawyer.

Author: M.A.P.

Notes

  • 1. OR (1878), app. xxxv.