1357 31st 1359 33rd 1360 34th 1362 36th 1363 37th A. D. 1355 Anno 29th Edward III. Parliament at Westminster-Thomas Drayton and John Ellis. Parliament at Ditto-Peter Cressy and Robert Ellis. Parliament at Ditto-William Ellis and Simon Atte Gappe. 1372 46th 1373 47th 1376 50th 2nd 1379 3rd Parliament at Ditto-William Ode and John De Halle. Parliament at Gloucester-William Ellis and Geoffrey Summerton. 21st A. D. 1396 Anno 20th Richard II. Parliament at Westminster-Hugo Atte Fen and Richard Okey. Parliament at Ditto-Ralph Ramesey and Richard Okeney. 1st Henry IV. Parliament at Ditto-John Beketon and Hugh Atte Fen. Parliament at Ditto-Roger Adams and Geoffrey Pampyn. Parliament at Ditto-William Parker and Alexander Gapp. 1st Henry V. Parliament at Ditto-William Okeney and Alexander Gapp. Parliament at Ditto-Geoffrey Pamping and Robert Ellis. Parliament at Ditto-Schedule lost. Parliament at Gloucester-Robert Ellis and Henry Rafman. Parliament at Ditto-Richard Ellis and Robert Cupper. 1st Henry VI. Parliament at Ditto-Robert Ellis and John Hasting. 1397 1400 1404 5th 1410 11th 1413 1414 2nd 1415 3rd 1419 7th 1420 8th 1421 9th 2nd Parliament at Ditto-Thomas Hall and Ralph Brouning. An unfortunate chasm here occurs in my manuscript list of the Parliamentary Burgesses for this town for according to Brady on Boroughs, page 77, it appears, that from the 17th of Edward IV., which are the last returns in the Tower, to the first year of Edward VI., they are all lost, except a few imperfect bundles in the Roll's Chapel. In consequence of this irremediable disaster, it is now become (with a very few exceptions only, where local Records have been preserved,) almost impossible to ascertain with certainty the returns for those Boroughs which were either summoned, omitted, or restored, between the two periods. 1547 A. D. 1541 Anno 33rd Henry VIII. Parliament at Westminster-Humphrey Wynn (only one.) 7th Second Parliament at Ditto-William Bishop, sen. and John Echard. 1st Elizabeth Parliament at Ditto-Thomas Woodhouse, Knt. and William Barker, Gent. 1553 1st Mary 2nd & 3rd 1557 4th & 5th 5th Parliament at Ditto-Thomas Timperley and William Gryce. A. D. 1596 Anno 39th Elizabeth. Parliament at Westminster-Henry Hobart and John Felton. Parliament at Ditto-Henry Hobart and Thomas Damer. 1st James I. Parliament at Ditto-Thomas Damer and John Wheeler. 1600 43rd Parliament at Ditto-Henry Hobart, Knt. and George Hardweare. 1603 1614 12th 1620 18th 1623 21st 3rd 1639 15th 16401 16th Second Parliament at Ditto-Sir John Corbet, Bart. and Thomas Johnson. Parliament at Ditto-Miles Corbet and Edward Owner. 5th Charles II. (the Commonwealth)-No Representatives for Cities or Boroughs. 6th Charles II. (Ditto)-Colonel William Goffe || and Thomas Dunn. Afterwards General Goffe, another of the Regicides. In 1656, he was returned for the County of Southampton and at the Restoration escaped to America. THE RESTORATION. A. D. 1660-Sir John Palgrave,* Bart. and Miles Corbet, Esq. both removed on petition, and the following returnedSir John Potts,† Bart. and Sir William D'Oyley.‡ Knt. 1661-William Coventry,|| Esq. and Sir William D'Oyley. 1679-Lord Huntington and Sir William Coventry, Knt. 1680-Richard Huntington, Esq. and George England, Esq. 1681-Sir James Johnson, Knt. and George England, Esq. Previously to this year, the Corporation had usually elected the Burgesses of Parliament by an inquest of twelve men from their own body, viz. six aldermen and six of the common council, or sometimes by a majority of assembly, as in 1654. At this period, (1681) the whole body of the freemen of the Borough claimed the right of electing their Representatives in Parliament, and accordingly chose the two gentlemen above named, upon which occasion Sir James Johnson made a celebrated speech to the electors. An appeal against this return was made by the Corporation to the House of Commons, who decided in favour of the freemen, a majority of whom have ever since elected their own Representatives. *Sir John Palgrave, of Norwood Berningham, in Norfolk. Created a Baronet, in 1641. + Sir John Potts, Bart. of Mannington, in Norfolk. presented this county in 1640. He re Sir William D'Oyley, Knt. of Shottisham, in Norfolk. Created a Baronet in 1663, and appointed one of the Commisioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen and Prisoners of War, in 1665: he died in 1677. Fourth son of Thomas, first Earl of Coventry, and Secretary to the Admiralty in 1661, Knighted 1665, and one of the Commissioners of the Treasury in 1667: he died at the age of 60 years, in 1686. |