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This is a list of members of Parliament nominated to the English parliament convened by Oliver Cromwell in 1653.
This Parliament was called the "Little Parliament", as no burgesses (representatives of cities and boroughs) were summoned to it except from the City of London. It did however include a small number of representatives for Scotland and Ireland. Given its skeletal nature, it was nicknamed the Barebone's Parliament after Praise-God Barebone one of the representatives for the City of London. The parliament first met on 5 July 1653 and sat until 12 December 1653.
List of constituencies and members
This list contains details of the members nominated by Oliver Cromwell and the Army Council in 1653. There were no elections.
| Constituency | Members | Notes |
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| Bedfordshire | Nathaniel Taylor Edward Cater. |
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| Berkshire | Samuel Dunch Vincent Goddard Thomas Wood. |
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| Buckinghamshire | George Fleetwood George Baldwin. |
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| Cambridgeshire | John Sadler Thomas French Robert Castle Samuel Warner. |
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| Cheshire | Robert Duckenfield Henry Birkenhead. |
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| Cornwall | Robert Bennet Francis Langdon Anthony Rous John Bawden. |
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| Cumberland | Robert Fenwick. | |
| Derbyshire | Gervase Bennet Nathaniel Barton. |
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| Devon | General-at-sea George Monck John Carew Thomas Saunders Christopher Martyn James Erisey Francis Rous Richard Sweet. |
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| Dorset | William Sydenham John Bingham. |
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| Durham | Henry Dawson. | |
| Essex | Joachim Matthews Henry Barrington John Brewster Christopher Earl Dudley Templer. |
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| Gloucestershire | John Crofts William Neast Robert Holmes. |
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| Hampshire See Southampton (below) | ||
| Herefordshire | Wroth Rogers John Herring. |
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| Hertfordshire | Henry Lawrence William Reeve. |
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| Huntingdonshire | Edward Montagu Stephen Pheasant. |
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| Kent | Viscount Lisle Thomas Blount William Kenrick William Cullen Andrew Broughton. |
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| Lancashire | William West John Sawry Robert Cunliffe. |
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| Leicestershire | Henry Danvers Edward Smith John Prat. |
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| Lincolnshire | Sir William Brownlow Richard Cust Barnaby Bowtel Humphrey Walcot William Thompson. |
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| Middlesex | Sir William Roberts Augustine Wingfield Arthur Squib. |
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| City of London | Robert Tichborne John Ireton Samuel Moyer John Langley John Stone Henry Barton Praise-God Barebone. |
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| Monmouthshire | Philip Jones. | |
| Norfolk | Robert Jermy Tobias Frere Ralph Wolmer Henry King William Burton. |
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| Northamptonshire | Sir Gilbert Pickering Bt Thomas Brooke. |
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| Northumberland | Henry Ogle. | |
| Nottinghamshire | John Oddingsels Edward Cludd. |
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| Oxfordshire | Sir Charles Wolseley William Draper Dr Jonathan Goddard. |
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| Rutland | Edward Horseman. | |
| Shropshire | William Bottrell Thomas Baker. |
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| Somerset | General-at-sea Robert Blake John Pine Dennis Hollister Henry Henley. |
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| County of Southampton | Richard Norton Richard Major John Hildesley. | |
| Staffordshire | George Bellot John Chetwood. | |
| Suffolk | Jacob Caley Francis Brewster Robert Dunken John Clarke Edward Plumstead. |
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| Surrey | Samuel Highland Laurence March. |
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| Sussex | Anthony Stapley William Spence Nathaniel Studeley. |
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| Warwickshire | John St Nicholas Richard Lucy. |
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| Westmoreland | Major-General Charles Howard. | |
| Wiltshire | Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Nicholas Green Thomas Eyre. |
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| Worcestershire | Richard Salwey John James. |
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| Yorkshire | Lord Eure Walter Strickland Francis Lascelles John Anlaby Thomas Dickenson Thomas St. Nicholas Roger Coats Edward Gill. |
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| Wales | Bussy Mansell James Philipps John Williams Hugh Courtenay Richard Price John Brown. |
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| Scotland | Sir James Hope Alexander Brodie (nominated but did not take his seat) John Swinton William Lockhart Alexander Jaffrays. |
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| Ireland | Sir Robert King Colonel John Hewson Colonel Henry Cromwell Colonel John Clark Daniel Hutchinson (Alderman) Vincent Gookin. |
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| Nominated | Lord General Oliver Cromwell Major-General Lambert Major-General Harrison Major-General Desborough Colonel Matthew Tomlinson. |
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Total of 140 (England and Wales 129, Scotland 5, Ireland 6), with an additional six nominated by the assembly.
See also
Notes
- Rous was appointed Speaker monthly (Willis 1750, p. 255).
- Dawson or Davison (Willis 1750, p. 255).
- Sources vary slightly:
- Total 144: made up of 128 members from England and Wales, and for Scotland and Ireland (and additional nominations) 16 (Willis 1750, p. 258)
- Total 144 (Burton & Goddard 1828, p. 500).
- "From the names submitted, the Council chose 140 members: 129 for England, 5 for Scotland, and 6 for Ireland" (Archontology.org staff 2010). This number excludes the additional nominated members but includes an additional English MP.
- ^ Burton & Goddard 1828, p. 499.
- ^ Willis 1750, p. 255.
- ^ Burton & Goddard 1828, p. 499 listed under "Four Northern Counties"
- ^ Burton & Goddard 1828, p. 500.
- ^ Willis 1750, p. 256.
- ^ Willis 1750, p. 257.
- Alison G. Muir, ‘Brodie, Alexander, of Brodie, Lord Brodie (1617–1680)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Aug 2017
- ^ Willis 1750, p. 258.
- Archontology.org staff 2010.
References
- Archontology.org staff (13 March 2010), England: Parliament 1640-1660, www.archontology.org, archived from the original on 25 December 2009, retrieved 7 September 2013
- Burton, Thomas; Goddard, Guibon (1828), Rutt, John Towill (ed.), Diary, of Thomas Burton, esq. member in the parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell from 1656-59: ... With an ... account of the Parliament of 1654; from the journal of Guibon Goddard, vol. 4, pp. 499–500
- Willis, Browne (1750). "Little Parliament". 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. pp. 255–258.
Further reading
- Brunton, D.; Pennington, D. H. (1954), Members of the Long Parliament, London: George Allen & Unwin
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803, London: Thomas Hansard, 1808, archived from the original on 4 September 2015