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Plympton Erle, also spelt Plympton Earle, was a parliamentary borough in Devon. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

Members of Parliament

1295–1640

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1640–1832

Elections

Elections in Plympton Erle were normally uncontested. The only contest between the Union of England and Scotland in 1707 and the abolition of the borough in 1832 was at the general election of 1802.

Notes

1. "BURLESTONE (BORLESTON), William (D.1406), of Harberton, Devon. | History of Parliament Online".
2. "RAYMOND, Thomas (D.1418), of Simpson in Holsworthy, Devon. | History of Parliament Online".
3. ^ "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 20 November 2004.
4. Payling, S. J. (2006). "Fitzwillam, Sir Thomas, speaker of the House of Commons". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/92985. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
5. ^ "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 20 November 2004.
6. ^ "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 20 November 2004.
7. Oldisworth was also elected for Salisbury, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Plympton Erle
8. Slanning was also elected for Penryn, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Plympton Erle
9. The election of 1690 was declared void by the House of Commons, and a writ for a by-election was issued
10. Edgcumbe was re-elected in 1734, but had also been elected for Lostwithiel, which he chose to represent, and did not sit in this Parliament for Plympton Erle
11. Jervoise was originally declared elected, but on petition (in a dispute over the franchise) his opponent Hele was declared to have been duly elected
12. Treby was re-elected in 1727, but had also been elected for Dartmouth, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Plympton Erle
13. Richard Edgcumbe was re-elected in 1747, but had also been elected for Lostwithiel, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Plympton Erle
14. George Edgcumbe was also elected for Fowey, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Plympton Erle
15. Knighted November 1760

References

• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
• Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig – Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)

• Parliamentary constituencies in Devon (historic)
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1295
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832
• Rotten boroughs