List of members nominated to the English parliament in 1653 explained

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.

ConstituencyMembersNotes
BedfordshireNathaniel Taylor
Edward Cater.
Samuel Dunch
Vincent Goddard
Thomas Wood.
George Fleetwood
George Baldwin.
CambridgeshireJohn 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.
NottinghamshireJohn Oddingsels
Edward Cludd.
OxfordshireSir 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 SouthamptonRichard 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.
IrelandSir Robert King
Colonel John Hewson
Colonel Henry Cromwell
Colonel John Clark
Daniel Hutchinson (Alderman)
Vincent Gookin.
NominatedLord 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]

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. listed under "Four Northern Counties"
  2. Rous was appointed Speaker monthly .
  3. Dawson or Davison .
  4. Alison G. Muir, ‘Brodie, Alexander, of Brodie, Lord Brodie (1617–1680)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Aug 2017
  5. Sources vary slightly:
    • Total 144: made up of 128 members from England and Wales, and for Scotland and Ireland (and additional nominations) 16
    • Total 144 .
    • "From the names submitted, the Council chose 140 members: 129 for England, 5 for Scotland, and 6 for Ireland" . This number excludes the additional nominated members but includes an additional English MP.