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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 
15122--62-513--121463
15152-2-5-5062--3-
59 
15231--6-43---92761
1529318--2-10--115819347
1536----10-32111-91912-61
1539--2--403--99213146
15421474-1-421-21214200
1545238----251----264
1547198162-1985-6---425
1553 (Mar.)2601525-17-6--115306
1553 (Oct.)333---53------386
1554 (Apr.)386---1-----116388
1554 (Nov.)2991--93------393
15553516---5-1--817371
1558391---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.