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.
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. | ||
Samuel Dunch Vincent Goddard Thomas Wood. | |||
George Fleetwood George Baldwin. | |||
Cambridgeshire | John Sadler Thomas French Robert Castle Samuel Warner. | ||
Robert Duckenfield Henry Birkenhead. | |||
Robert Bennet Francis Langdon Anthony Rous John Bawden. | |||
Robert Fenwick.[1] | |||
Gervase Bennet Nathaniel Barton. | |||
General-at-sea George Monck John Carew Thomas Saunders Christopher Martyn James Erisey Francis Rous[2] Richard Sweet. | |||
William Sydenham John Bingham. | |||
Henry Dawson.[3] | |||
Joachim Matthews Henry Barrington John Brewster Christopher Earl Dudley Templer. | |||
John Crofts William Neast Robert Holmes. | |||
Hampshire See Southampton (below) | |||
Wroth Rogers John Herring. | |||
Henry Lawrence William Reeve. | |||
Edward Montagu Stephen Pheasant. | |||
Viscount Lisle Thomas Blount William Kenrick William Cullen Andrew Broughton. | |||
William West John Sawry Robert Cunliffe. | |||
Henry Danvers Edward Smith John Prat. | |||
Sir William Brownlow Richard Cust Barnaby Bowtel Humphrey Walcot William Thompson. | |||
Sir William Roberts Augustine Wingfield Arthur Squib. | |||
Robert Tichborne John Ireton Samuel Moyer John Langley John Stone Henry Barton Praise-God Barebone. | |||
Philip Jones. | |||
Robert Jermy Tobias Frere Ralph Wolmer Henry King William Burton. | |||
Sir Gilbert Pickering Bt Thomas Brooke. | |||
Henry Ogle. | |||
Nottinghamshire | John Oddingsels Edward Cludd. | ||
Oxfordshire | Sir Charles Wolseley William Draper Dr Jonathan Goddard. | ||
Edward Horseman. | |||
William Bottrell Thomas Baker. | |||
General-at-sea Robert Blake John Pine Dennis Hollister Henry Henley. | |||
County of Southampton | Richard Norton Richard Major John Hildesley. | ||
George Bellot John Chetwood. | |||
Jacob Caley Francis Brewster Robert Dunken John Clarke Edward Plumstead. | |||
Samuel Highland Laurence March. | |||
Anthony Stapley William Spence Nathaniel Studeley. | |||
John St Nicholas Richard Lucy. | |||
Major-General Charles Howard. | |||
Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Nicholas Green Thomas Eyre. | |||
Richard Salwey John James. | |||
Lord Eure Walter Strickland Francis Lascelles John Anlaby Thomas Dickenson Thomas St. Nicholas Roger Coats Edward Gill. | |||
Wales | Bussy Mansell James Philipps John Williams Hugh Courtenay Richard Price John Brown. | ||
Scotland | Sir James Hope Alexander Brodie (nominated but did not take his seat) [4] John Swinton William Lockhart Alexander Jaffrays. | ||
Ireland | Sir Robert King Colonel John Hewson Colonel Henry Cromwell Colonel John Clark Daniel Hutchinson (Alderman) Vincent Gookin. | ||
Nominated | Lord General Oliver Cromwell Major-General Lambert Major-General Harrison Major-General Desborough Colonel Matthew Tomlinson. |
Total of 140 (England and Wales 129, Scotland 5, Ireland 6), with an additional six nominated by the assembly.[5]