This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected in 1640 to the Long Parliament which began in the reign of King Charles I and continued into the Commonwealth.
The fifth and last Parliament of Charles I began at Westminster 3 November 1640 and continued sitting till 20 April 1653, when it was dissolved. There were five additional constituencies which were Ashburton, Honiton and Okehampton in Devon, and Malton and Northallerton in Yorkshire.
The length of the parliament and the turbulent times of the civil war resulted in a considerable turnover of MPs. At election, several MPs were elected for more than one seat, which resulted in re-elections and possible disputes. Some electoral disputes were never resolved within the term of the parliament. In the first year groups of MPs were lost - some were created peers as Charles I wished to strengthen his House of Lords; others were expelled as monopolists or for subversion. As the country plunged into Civil War, the Westminster parliament was divided, with over 150 MPs throwing in their lot with the King, and meeting at Oxford. These were nearly all disabled as a result. Several MPs on both sides were killed in action, adding to the normal roll call of deaths through natural causes. By around 1645 replacements were being elected to replace the disabled members.
In December 1648 the army imposed its will on parliament and large numbers of MPs were excluded under Pride's Purge, creating the Rump Parliament. Many who were not officially excluded did not participate in the affairs of the house. Although the parliament was dissolved in 1653 and four intervening parliaments were called, the Long Parliament was reconvened in 1659 for another dissolution.
This list contains details of the MPs elected in 1640 and shortly afterwards. For the second half of the parliament after around 1645 when a new set of MPs were drafted in, see List of MPs in the English parliament in 1645 and after. There is also a list of MPs not excluded from the English parliament in 1648
Bedfordshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedfordshire | Wentworth went to the House of Lords 25 November 1640 and was replaced in 1641 by Roger Burgoyne | ||
| Sir Beauchamp St John Sir Samuel Luke | |||
Berkshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Fettiplace disabled 22 January 1644 Martin disabled 16 August 1643, but readmitted 6 January 1645 | |||
| Cornelius Holland William Taylor | |||
| Knollys junior died in 1643 | |||
| Disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Edmund Dunch Thomas Howard | Howard disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
Buckinghamshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| John Hampden Arthur Goodwin | Hampden killed in June 1643 Goodwin died August 1643 | ||
| Denton disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Sir Edmund Verney Thomas Lane | Verney killed October 1642 | ||
| Pakington disabled 20 August 1642 Verney disabled 22 September 1645 | |||
| Cheyney died 1641 | |||
| Robert Croke Thomas Fountaine | Croke disabled 15 November 1643; Fountain died in 1646 | ||
| John Borlase Gabriel Hippesley | |||
Cambridgeshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Cambridgeshire | Chicheley disabled 16 September 1642 | ||
| Eden died 1644 | |||
Cheshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Venables disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Sir Thomas Smith Francis Gamull | Smith and Gamul disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
Cornwall | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Alexander Carew Sir Bevil Grenville | Carew disabled 4 September 1643; Grenville disabled 19 September 1642 | ||
| Ambrose Manaton William Coryton | Coryton expelled for falsifying returns in 1641, replaced by John Harris; Manaton disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
| John Harris Joseph Jane | Harris and Jane both disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
| John Trevanion Richard Arundell | Trevanion killed in action; Arundell disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
| Arundell disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Sidney Godolphin killed in action 1642; Francis Godolphin disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Hyde disabled 11 August 1642; Buller died | |||
| Piers Edgecumbe William Glanville | Both disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
| Coryton replaced by Sir John Trevor | |||
| Lower disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Thomas Arundell Henry Killigrew | Killigrew disabled 33 January 1644 | ||
| John Bampfylde Sir Nicholas Slanning | Slanning disabled 9 August 1642 | ||
| Both disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Sir Christopher Yelverton Sir John Clotworthy | Clotworthy sat for Maldon - replaced by Sir Ralph Sydenham - Sydenham disabled 28 September 1642 | ||
| Lisle chise Yarmouth, replaced by Edmund Waller; Waller disabled 14 July 1643 | |||
| Rashleigh disabled 22 January 1644; Buller died | |||
| Benjamin Valentine John Moyle jun. | Moyle died | ||
| William Chadwell John Arundell | Arundell chose Bodmin - replaced by Robert Holborne Chadwell disabled 22 January 1644; Holborne disabled 15 August 1642 | ||
| Maynard chose Totnes but not replaced; Edgcumbe disabled | |||
| Dr George Parry Richard Erisey | Parry disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
| Sir Arthur Ingram George Fane | Ingram died 1642; Fane disabled | ||
Cumberland | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Both disabled 15 March 1644 | |||
| Dalston disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Sir John Hippisley Sir John Fenwick | One seat vacant after Fenwick sat for Northumberland | ||
Derbyshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir John Curzon Bt Sir John Coke | |||
| Allestry disabled October 1643 | |||
Devon | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Wise died; Seymour disabled 16 January 1644 | |||
| Walker disabled 6 March 1643 | |||
| Trelawney expelled - replaced by Sir John Young | |||
| Pead died; Ferris disabled | |||
| Michael Oldisworth Sir Nicholas Slanning | Oldisworth chose Salisbury and Slanning chose Penryn - replaced by Hugh Potter and Sir Thomas Hele, 1st Baronet :Potter and Hele disabled | ||
| John Pym Lord William Russell | Russell ennobled 22 May 1641 - replaced by Hon. John Russell; Russell disabled 22 January 1644; Pym died December 1643 | ||
| Upton died 1641; Matthew disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| William Strode Sir Francis Cheeke | Cheek chose Harwich - replaced by Hugh Pollard; Pollard expelled 9 December 1641; Strode died 1645 | ||
| Sainthill disabled 22 January 1644; Hartnall disabled | |||
| Sir John Northcote Sir Edmund Fowell | |||
| Poole disabled 24 June 1643 | |||
| Edward Thomas Lawrence Whitaker | |||
Dorset | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Digby ennobled 10 June 1641; Rogers disabled 12 September 1642 | |||
| Constantine disabled 4 September 1643 | |||
| Denzil Holles Denis Bond | |||
| Strangways disabled 6 September 1642 | |||
| King disabled 27 February 1643; Napier disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Strangways disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Turner disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Windebanke fled from the Kingdom. His successor John Borlase disabled 4 March 1644 | |||
Essex | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Lord Rich Sir William Masham Bt | Rich elevated to House of Lords 27 January 1641 - replaced by Sir Martin Lumley, 1st Baronet | ||
| Barrington died 1644 | |||
| Sir Henry Mildmay Sir John Clotworthy | |||
Gloucestershire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Dutton disabled | |||
| Brett disabled | |||
| Gorges disabled 22 January 1644; George also disabled | |||
| Election originally voided for double return with Edward Alford; Cooke died 1643 | |||
Hampshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Ogle disabled 24 June 1643 | |||
| Goring disabled 16 August 1642 | |||
| Uvedale disabled | |||
| Cary (Falkland) disabled 22 September 1642 | |||
| Weston disabled 16 August 1642; Meux disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| Henry Tulse Matthew Davis | Tulse died 1642; Davis disabled 16 March 1643 | ||
| Sir Thomas Jervoise Richard Jervoise | |||
Herefordshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Coningsby expelled as monopolist 30 October 1641 replaced by Humphrey Coningsby who was disabled | |||
| Weaver died May 1642 - replaced by James Scudamore. Scudamore disabled; Seaborne disabled 3 January 1646 | |||
| Tomkins disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Eure disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
Hertfordshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Capel was raised to the peerage 6 August 1641 and replaced by Thomas Dacres | |||
| Jennings died 1642 | |||
| Viscount Cranborne Sir Thomas Fanshawe | Fanshawe disabled 24 November 1643 | ||
Huntingdonshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Montagu disabled 3 December 1642 | |||
| George Montagu Edward Montagu | |||
Kent (see also Cinque Ports) | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Dering disabled 2 February 1642 and died 1644; Colepepper disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Sir Thomas Walsingham Richard Lee | |||
| Barneham died 1646 | |||
| Harrison disabled 24 June 1643; Hales disabled 1648 | |||
Lancashire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Kirby disabled 29 August 1642 | |||
| John Harrison Thomas Fanshawe | Fanshawe disabled 7 September 1642; Harrison disabled 4 September 1643 | ||
| Standish died 1642 | |||
| William Ashurst Peter Legh | Legh died after duel February 1642 - replaced by Sir Roger Palmer Palmer disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
| Bridgeman disabled 29 August 1642 | |||
| Sir Richard Wynn, 2nd Baronet John Moore | |||
Leicestershire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| de Grey became Earl of Kent in 1643 | |||
| Coke disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
Lincolnshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir John Wray Sir Edward Ayscough | |||
| Broxholme died 1647 | |||
| Sir Anthony Irby William Ellis | |||
| Wray died 1646; Holles disabled 22 August 1642 | |||
| Palmer disabled 7 September 1642 | |||
| Hussey died March 1641 - replaced by Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet | |||
Middlesex | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Francklyn died 1647 | |||
| Cradock died in 1641 and was replaced by John Venn | |||
Monmouthshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Williams died 1641; Herbert disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| Disputed election - declared void 29 November 1644 | |||
Norfolk | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Moundeford died - replaced by Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet in 1641. Hobart died in 1647 | |||
| Richard Harman Richard Catelyn | Harman died 1645; Catelyn disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
| Perceval died 1644, his replacement Edmund Hudson expelled 1647 | |||
| Miles Corbet Edward Owner (Recorder) | |||
| Sir Thomas Wodehouse Framlingham Gawdy | |||
| Hatton sat for Heigham Ferrers - replaced by Sir Robert Hatton; Hatton disabled 7 September 1642 | |||
Northamptonshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bt John Dryden Bt. | |||
| William FitzWilliam Sir Robert Napier, 2nd Baronet | |||
| Zouch Tate Richard Knightley | |||
| Hatton disabled 7 September 1642 | |||
Northumberland | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Percy expelled on 9 December 1641 - replacement Sir John Fenwick disabled 22 January 1644; Widdrington disabled 26 August 1642 | |||
| Melton died 1640 - replacement Sir Henry Anderson disabled 4 September 1643 | |||
| Sir Thomas Widdrington Sir Edward Osborne | |||
| John Fenwick Sir William Carnaby | Carnaby disabled 26 August 1642; Fenwick disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
Nottinghamshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir Thomas Hutchinson Robert Sutton | Hutchinson died 1643; Sutton disabled 1643 | ||
| Francis Pierrepoint William Stanhope | |||
| Sir Gervase Clifton Charles Viscount Mansfield | Clifton disabled; Mansfield disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
Oxfordshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Thomas Viscount Wenman Hon. James Fiennes | |||
| Roe died by 1644 | |||
| Whistler and Smith both disabled 18 November 1646 | |||
| Lenthall was Speaker Pye in place of William Herbert | |||
Rutland | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir Guy Palmes Hon. Baptist Noel | Noel succeeded to peerage 1643; Palmes disabled 28 September 1643 | ||
Salop | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir Richard Lee, 2nd Baronet Sir Richard Newport | Lee disabled 6 September 1642 Newport ennobled 14 October 1642 | ||
| Shrewsbury | Francis Newport William Spurstow | Newport disabled 22 January 1643; Spurstow died | |
| (Sir) Thomas Whitmore Edward Acton | Acton and Whitmore both disabled 5 February 1644 | ||
| Baldwin and Goodwin disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| Littleton disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| Howard disabled 6 September 1642; Moor died by 1644 | |||
Somerset | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir John Poulett Sir John Stawell | Powlett and Stawell both disabled 8 August 1642 | ||
| Hooke and Longe expelled as monopolists 1642 Replaced by John Glanville and John Tailer both disabled 25 September 1645 | |||
| Bassett disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| Hopton disabled 5 August 1642; Rodney disabled 12 August 1642 | |||
| Portman disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| Peter Wroth Edmund Wyndham | Wyndham expelled 1641, his replacement Thomas Smith disabled 5 August 1642; Wroth died 1644 | ||
| Sir Francis Popham Alexander Luttrell | Luttrell died 1642, replacement Thomas Hanham disabled 1644; Popham died 1644 | ||
| Phelips and Hunt disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| Kyrton disabled 11 August 1642; Digby disabled 5 August 1642 | |||
Staffordshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir Edward Littleton Hervey Bagot | Bagot disabled 24 November 1642; Littleton disabled 4 March 1644 | ||
| Ralph Sneyd Richard Weston | Weston disabled 1642; Sneyd disabled 20 May 1643 | ||
| Leveson disabled 24 November 1642 | |||
| Cave disabled 30 August 1642 | |||
| Wilmot expelled 9 December 1641; Stanhope killed in action 1643 | |||
Suffolk | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston Sir Philip Parker | |||
| Cage died by 1644 | |||
| Henry Coke Anthony Bedingfield | Coke disabled 7 September 1642 | ||
| Rainsborough died 1641 replaced by Alexander Bence | |||
| (Sir) Simonds d'Ewes Sir Robert Crane | Crane died 1643 | ||
| Cornwallis disabled 23 September 1642 | |||
| Jermyn disabled 14 February 1644 | |||
Surrey | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir Richard Onslow Sir Ambrose Browne | |||
| Edward Bagshawe John White | White died 1643; Bagshawe disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
| John Evelyn, senior Edward Bysshe jun. | |||
| William Lord Monson Sir Thomas Bludder | Bludder disabled | ||
| Abbotts died 1645 | |||
| Sir Samuel Owfield Thomas Sandys | Owfield died 1644 | ||
| John Goodwin Poynings More | |||
Sussex - see also Cinque Ports | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Christopher Lewknor Sir William Morley | Lewknor disabled 2 September 1642; Morley disabled 23 November 1642 | ||
| Thomas Middleton Hall Ravenscroft . | |||
| May disabled 23 November 1642 | |||
| Bowyer disabled 23 November 1642 | |||
| Leedes disabled 23 November 1642; Farnefold died in 1643 | |||
| Buckhurst disabled 5 February 1643 | |||
| Henry Garton Sir Edward Alford | Garton died; Alford disabled 22 January 1644 | ||
Warwickshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Richard Shuckburgh James Compton | Compton inherited peerage 1643; Shuckburgh disabled 11 October 1644 | ||
| John Barker Simon Norton | |||
| Lucy died 1640 replaced by Godfrey Bosvile | |||
Westmorland | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Sir Philip Musgrave Sir Henry Bellingham | Musgrave disabled 15 March 1643; Bellingham disabled 11 October 1645 | ||
| Viscount Dungarvan Sir John Brooke | Brooke disabled 15 March 1643; Dungarvan disabled 1643 | ||
Wiltshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Thynne disabled 1642; Ludlow died 1644 | |||
| Hyde disabled 4 August 1642 | |||
| Cooper's election disputed and he never sat; Griffin disabled on 5 February 1644 | |||
| Robert Reynolds Miles Fleetwood | Fleetwood died 1641 - replacement Thomas Bennett died 1644 | ||
| William Wheler John Ashe | |||
| Lowe disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Edward Bayntun | |||
| Hungerford disabled 1644 | |||
| Robert Jenner Thomas Hodges | |||
| Smith and Hardinge both disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| William Ashburnham Sir John Evelyn | Ashburnham expelled 1641 | ||
| Hon. Robert Cecil Edward Herbert | Herbert impeached 1641; replacement Sir William Savile disabled 6 September 1642 | ||
| Pleydell disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| John Francklyn Sir Francis Seymour | Seymour raised to the peerage 1641; Francklyn died | ||
Worcestershire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Endymion Porter Samuel Sandys | Sandys disabled 20 August 1642; Porter disabled 10 March 1643 | ||
| Richard Cresheld William Sandys | Sandys expelled 1641, replacement John Coventry disabled 12 August 1642 | ||
| Sir Henry Herbert | Herbert disabled 20 August 1642 | ||
Yorkshire | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax Henry Belasyse | Belasyse disabled 6 September 1642; Fairfax died 1648 | ||
| Sir William Allanson Thomas Hoyle (Alderman) | |||
| Sir Henry Vane, junior Sir John Lister | |||
| Benson expelled 2 November 1641 - disputed election returned William Deerlove and then William Constable; Slingsby disabled 6 September 1642 | |||
| Cholmeley disabled 3 April 1643; Hotham disabled 8 September 1643 | |||
| W Mallory disabled 6 September 1642; J Mallory disabled 16 January 1644 | |||
| Sir William Pennyman, Bt. Sir Thomas Danby | Pennyman disabled 11 August 1642; Danby disabled 6 September 1642 | ||
| Stapleton died 1647 | |||
| Belasyse and Ingram both disabled 6 September 1642 | |||
| Strickland disabled 21 January 1643; Aldborough disabled 6 September 1642 | |||
| Hotham disabled 7 September 1643; Warton disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Wentworth of Woolley disabled 6 September 1642; Wentworth of Woodhouse disabled 22 January 1644 | |||
| Hebblethwaite disabled 29 November 1644 | |||
| Sir Henry Cholmley Sir John Ramsden | Ramsden disabled April 1644 | ||
Cinque Ports | |||
| Ashburnham and Eversfield both disabled 5 February 1644 | |||
| Webb expelled 21 January 1642 as monopolist - replaced by Richard Browne | |||
| Harvey died 1645 | |||
| Sir Edward Boys Sir Peter Heyman | |||
| Sir Thomas Peyton Sir Edward Partridge | Peyton disabled 5 February 1644 | ||
| John White Sir John Jacob, 1st Baronet | Jacob expelled 1641 replaced by William Hay; White disabled 5 February 1644 | ||
| Crisp expelled 1641- replacement William Smith disabled 1644 ; Finch died 1642 | |||
Wales | |||
| Constituency | Members | Notes | |
| John Bodvel | Bodvel disabled 5 February 1644 | ||
| John Griffith | Griffith died 10 August 1642 | ||
| William Morgan | |||
| Herbert Price | Price disabled | ||
| Walter Lloyd | Lloyd disabled 5 February 1644 | ||
| John Vaughan | Vaughan disabled 1 September 1645 | ||
| Vaughan disabled 1644 | |||
| Francis Lloyd | Lloyd disabled 5 February 1644 | ||
| John Griffith jun | Griffith disabled 10 August 1642 | ||
| William Thomas | Thomas disabled 5 February 1644 | ||
| Thomas Middleton | |||
| Simon Thelwall | |||
| John Mostyn | Mostyn disabled 5 February 1644 | ||
| John Salusbury | Salusbiry disabled 5 February 1644 | ||
| Philip, Lord Herbert | |||
| Killed at Battle of Edgehill Oct 1642. No representation 1642-1645 | |||
| William Price | Price disabled 5 February 1644 | ||
| Sir John Pryce, 1st Baronet | Pryse disabled 20 October 1645 | ||
| Richard Herbert | Herbert disabled 12 September 1642 | ||
| died by 1644 | |||
| Sir John Stepney, 3rd Baronet | disabled | ||
| Charles Price | Price disabled 1642 | ||
| Philip Warwick | Warwick disabled 5 February 1644 | ||