| St Mawes | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1562 |
| Abolished: | 1832 |
| Type: | Borough |
| Elects Howmany: | Two |
| Region: | England |
| Towns: | St Mawes |
St Mawes was a rotten borough in Cornwall, England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1562 to 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until it was abolished by the Great Reform Act in 1832.
The borough consisted of the manor of St Mawes, a decayed fishing port and market town in the west of Cornwall. Like most of the Cornish boroughs enfranchised or re-enfranchised during the Tudor period, it was a rotten borough from the start.
The right to vote rested with the portreeve and "resident burgesses or free tenants", making it essentially a scot and lot borough (there were 87 voters in 1831), but the control of the "patron" was entirely secure. In practice the patron always worked in close collusion with the Crown, and the members returned were generally court nominees throughout the borough's existence. In the 1760s the Boscawen family (the Viscounts Falmouth) were considered to have the main influence over the choice of one member[1] and Robert Nugent over the other;[2] by the time of the Great Reform Act, the patronage had passed to the Marquess of Buckingham.
In 1831, the borough had a population of 459, and 95 houses.
| Parliament | First member | Second member | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament of 1563–1567 | Oliver Carminow | Edmund Sexton | |
| Parliament of 1571 | William Fleetwood | Israel Amice | |
| Parliament of 1572–1581 | Rowland Hind | Geoffrey Gates | |
| Parliament of 1584–1585 | William Onslow | Christopher Southouse | |
| Parliament of 1586–1587 | Sampson Lennard | Thomas Chaloner | |
| Parliament of 1588–1589 | John Potts | Walter Cope | |
| Parliament of 1593 | Nicholas Fuller | Henry Vincent | |
| Parliament of 1597–1598 | Michael Vyvyan | Richard Orver | |
| Parliament of 1601 | Robert Killigrew | Ralph Hare | |
| Parliament of 1604–1611 | Dudley Carleton | Sir John Speccot | |
| Addled Parliament (1614) | Francis Vyvyan | Sir Nicholas Smith | |
| Parliament of 1621–1622 | Edward Wrightington | William Hockmore | |
| Happy Parliament (1624–1625) | John Arundell | William Hockmore | |
| Sir James Fullerton | Nathaniel Tomkins | ||
| Parliament of 1625–1626 | Sir Henry Carey | William Carr | |
| Parliament of 1628–1629 | Thomas Carey | Hannibal Vyvyan | |
| No Parliament summoned 1629–1640 | |||
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | Dr George Parry | Royalist | Lord Sheffield | ||||
| November 1640 | Richard Erisey | ||||||
| January 1644 | Parry disabled from sitting – seat vacant | ||||||
| 1647 | William Priestley | ||||||
| December 1648 | Priestley and Erisey excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | ||||||
| 1653 | St Mawes was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||||
| William Tredenham | John Lampen[3] | ||||||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | ||||||
| April 1660 | Sir William Tredenham | Arthur Spry | < | -- party --> | |||
| 1663 | Sir Richard Vyvyan | ||||||
| 1665 | Joseph Tredenham | ||||||
| February 1679 | Sidney Godolphin | Henry Seymour | < | -- party --> | |||
| September 1679 | Sir Joseph Tredenham | ||||||
| 1685 | Sir Peter Prideaux | ||||||
| 1689 | Sir Joseph Tredenham | < | -- party --> | ||||
| March 1690 | Henry Seymour Portman | ||||||
| April 1690 | John Tredenham | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1695 | Seymour Tredenham | ||||||
| 1696 | Henry Seymour Portman | ||||||
| 1698 | Sir Joseph Tredenham | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1705 | Francis Godfrey | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1707 | John Tredenham | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1710 | Sir Richard Onslow | Whig | |||||
| 1711 | John Anstis | ||||||
| 1713 | Edward Rolt | Francis Scobell | |||||
| 1715 | William Lowndes | John Chetwynd | |||||
| 1722 | Sidney Godolphin | < | -- party --> | Samuel Travers | |||
| 1726 | Samuel Molyneux | ||||||
| 1727 | Henry Vane | Whig | John Knight[4] | Whig | |||
| 1728 | William East | ||||||
| 1734 | Richard Plumer | ||||||
| 1741 | Robert Nugent[5] | < | -- party --> | James Douglas | |||
| 1747 | The Lord Sundon | ||||||
| 1753 | Sir Thomas Clavering | ||||||
| April 1754 | Henry Seymour Conway | Whig | |||||
| December 1754 | James Newsham[6] | ||||||
| 1761 | Edmund Nugent | < | -- party --> | Richard Hussey | |||
| 1768 | George Boscawen | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1770 | Michael Byrne | ||||||
| 1772 | James Edward Colleton | ||||||
| 1774 | Viscount Clare[7] | Hugh Boscawen | < | -- party --> | |||
| 1784 | (Sir) William Young[8] | Tory | |||||
| 1790 | Colonel John Graves Simcoe | ||||||
| 1792 | Thomas Calvert | ||||||
| 1795 | William Drummond | ||||||
| May 1796 | George Nugent[9] | ||||||
| October 1796 | Jeremiah Crutchley | ||||||
| 1802 | William Windham | Tory | |||||
| 1806 | Sir John Newport[10] | Whig | Scrope Bernard | Tory | |||
| January 1807 | William Shipley | ||||||
| July 1807 | Viscount Ebrington | Whig | |||||
| 1808 | Earl Gower | Whig | |||||
| 1809 | Scrope Bernard-Morland | Tory | |||||
| 1812 | William Shipley | ||||||
| 1813 | Francis Horner | Whig | |||||
| 1817 | Joseph Phillimore | Tory | |||||
| 1826 | Sir Codrington Carrington | Tory | |||||
| 1830 | George Pigott | Tory | |||||
| 1831 | Sir Edward Sugden | Tory | |||||
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | ||||||