Yarmouth I.o.W.

Borough

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

Elections

DateCandidate
25 Nov. 1584ARTHUR GORGES
 WILLIAM STUBBS
1586THOMAS WEST II
 JOHN DUNCOMBE
14 Oct. 1588DANIEL HILLS
 JOHN HOWE
1593ROBERT DILLINGTON
 ROBERT CROSSE
26 Sept. 1597BENEDICT BARNHAM
 JOHN SNOW
24 Sept. 1601WILLIAM COTTON
 STEPHEN THEOBALD

Main Article

Having once elected MPs in conjunction with Newport in 1295, Yarmouth had allowed its representative status to lapse, until in 1584 this was restored at the instance of Sir George Carey (from 1596 2nd Baron Hunsdon), captain of the Isle of Wight. Returns were made by the mayor and burgesses, who, at any rate in 1584, 1597 and 1601, sent them blank to Carey. Only Dillington (1593) was a local man and he must have been acceptable to Carey when he was returned, though he quarrelled with him later, accusing him of tyranny. All the rest were connected with Carey one way or another—through a connexion at court (Gorges, Crosse, probably Stubbs); at London (Hills, Howe, Barnham, Theobald); a relation (Thomas West II); a dependant (Snow, Cotton) or a neighbour in Buckinghamshire (Duncombe). Yarmouth was incorporated in 1609.

VCH Hants, v. 286; Weinbaum, Charters, 51.

Author: P. W. Hasler

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