This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) in the Rump Parliament which was the final stage of the Long Parliament which began in the reign of King Charles I and continued into the Commonwealth.
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. This left many constituencies without representatives. Many MPs 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 in the house after 1648. For the original membership of the House of Commons in 1640 see List of MPs elected to the English parliament in 1640 (November). For the membership immediately preceding Pride's Purge, see List of MPs in the English parliament in 1645 and after
Bedfordshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
---|---|---|
Bedfordshire | Sir Roger Burgoyne, 2nd Baronet | Some sources exclude Burgoyne |
Bedford | Sir Beauchamp St John Richard Edwards | Edwards elected November 1650 |
Berkshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Berkshire | Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke Henry Marten | Pembroke died - replaced by Henry Neville; Marten regicide |
Windsor | Cornelius Holland | Holland regicide |
Reading | Tanfield Vachel Daniel Blagrave | |
Abingdon | Henry Neville | Elected Apr 1649 |
Wallingford | Edmund Dunch | |
Buckinghamshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Buckinghamshire | George Fleetwood Edmund West | Fleetwood regicide |
Buckingham | Sir Peter Temple John Dormer | |
Wycombe | Major General Richard Browne | Browne disabled 4 December 1649 |
Aylesbury | Thomas Scot Simon Mayne | Scot and Mayne regicides |
Amersham | Sir William Drake, 1st Baronet | Some sources give Drake excluded |
Wendover | Richard Ingoldsby Thomas Harrison | Ingoldsby regicide |
Marlow | Bulstrode Whitelocke | |
Cambridgeshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cambridgeshire | Francis Russell | |
Cambridge University | Henry Lucas Nathaniel Bacon | |
Cambridge | Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant-General, John Lowry | Cromwell regicide |
Cheshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cheshire | Sir William Brereton George Booth | |
City of Chester | John Ratcliffe | |
Cornwall | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cornwall | Hugh Boscawen Nicholas Trefusis | Some sources give Trefusis excluded Boscawen not recorded as sitting |
Launceston | ||
Liskeard | George Kekewich | Some sources give Kekewich excluded |
Lostwithiel | John Maynard | Maynard not recorded as sitting |
Truro | Francis Rous | |
Bodmin | Anthony Nichols | Nichols not recorded as sitting |
Helston | John Penrose | Penrose not recorded as sitting |
Saltash | Henry Wills | Some sources give Wills excluded |
Camelford | William Say Gregory Clement | Both regicides; Clement disabled 11 May 1652 |
Grampound | Sir John Trevor | |
Eastlow | John Moyle | |
Westlow | John Arundell | |
Penryn | Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet | |
Tregoney | John Carew | Regicide |
Bossiney | Sir Christopher Yelverton | Not recorded as sitting |
St Ives | John Feilder Henry Rainsford | |
Fowey | John Upton | |
St Germans | Benjamin Valentine | Died 1652 |
Mitchel | Charles Lord Rochester | |
Newport | ||
St Mawes | Richard Erisey | |
Callington | Thomas Dacres Lord Clinton | Some sources give Dacres excluded |
Cumberland | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Cumberland | William Armine Richard Tolson | Some sources give Tolson excluded |
Carlisle | Thomas Cholmley Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick | Cholmley not recorded as sitting |
Cockermouth | Sir John Hippisley Francis Allen | Allen regicide |
Derbyshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Derbyshire | Sir John Coke | |
Derby | Nathaniel Hallowes | |
Devon | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Devon | William Morice | Some sources give Morice excluded |
Exeter | Samuel Clark | |
Totnes | Oliver St John John Maynard | |
Plymouth | Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet | Some sources give Yonge excluded |
Barnstaple | Philip Skippon John Dodderidge | |
Plympton Erle | Christopher Martyn Sir Richard Strode | |
Tavistock | Edmund Fowell Elisha Crimes | Some sources give both excluded |
Clifton Dartmouth Hardness | Thomas Boone | |
Bere Alston | Francis Drake | |
Tiverton | John Elford Robert Shapcote | Some sources give Shapcote excluded and Elford Not recorded as sitting |
Ashburton | Sir Edmund Fowell Sir John Northcote Bt | Some sources give both excluded |
Honiton | Walter Yonge | Yonge not recorded as sitting |
Okehampton | Lawrence Whitaker | |
Dorset | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Dorset | John Browne Sir Thomas Trenchard | Trenchard not recorded as sitting |
Poole | John Pyne | |
Dorchester | Denis Bond | |
Lyme Regis | Edmund Prideaux Richard Rose | Rose not recorded as sitting |
Weymouth | ||
Melcombe | William Sydenham John Bond | Some sources give both excluded |
Bridport | Roger Hill Thomas Ceeley | Some sources give Ceeley excluded |
Shaftesbury | John Fry John Bingham | Fry expelled for heterodoxy 24 February 1650 |
Wareham | John Trenchard | |
Corfe Castle | Francis Chettel | Not recorded as sitting |
Essex | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Essex | Sir William Masham Bt | |
Colchester | John Sayer | Not recorded as sitting |
Maldon | Sir Henry Mildmay | Regicide |
Harwich | Sir Thomas Cheek | |
Gloucestershire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Gloucestershire | Nathaniel Stephens | |
Gloucester | Thomas Pury John Lenthall | |
Cirencester | Sir Thomas Fairfax Nathaniel Rich | Fairfax not recorded as sitting |
Tewkesbury | John Stephens | |
Hampshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hampshire | Richard Whitehead Richard Norton | |
Winchester | John Lisle Nicholas Love | |
Southampton | George Gallop Edward Exton | |
Portsmouth | Richard Cromwell | |
Yarmouth | Viscount L'Isle Sir John Leigh | Some sources give Leigh excluded |
Petersfield | ||
Newport al. Medina | Sir Henry Worsley, 2nd Baronet William Stephens LLD | Some sources give Worsley excluded |
Stockbridge | William Hevingham William Jephson | Hevingham regicide; Jephson not recorded as sitting |
Newtown | Sir John Barrington John Bulkeley | |
Christchurch | John Kempe Richard Edwards | Kempe not recorded as sitting |
Whitchurch | Sir Thomas Jervoise Thomas Hussey | |
Lymington | John Button Henry Campion | Some sources give Gutton excluded; Campion not recorded as sitting |
Andover | Robert Wallop | Wallop regicide |
Herefordshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Herefordshire | ||
Hereford | Edmund Weaver Bennet Hoskyns | Some sources give Hoskyns excluded |
Weobley | Robert Andrews William Crowther | |
Leominster | ||
Hertfordshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Hertfordshire | ||
St Albans | ||
Hertford | Viscount Cranborne William Leman | Cranborne not recorded as sitting |
Huntingdonshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Huntingdonshire | Valentine Walton Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich | |
Huntingdon | Abraham Burrell | |
Kent (see also Cinque Ports) | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Kent | Augustine Skinner John Boys | Some sources give Boys excluded |
Canterbury | Sir Edward Masters John Nutt | |
Rochester | Richard Lee Sir Thomas Walsingham | Some sources give Lee excluded |
Maidstone | Thomas Twisden | Some sources give Twisden excluded |
Queensborough | Sir Michael Livesey Augustine Garland | Livesey and Garland regicides |
Lancashire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Lancashire | Ralph Assheton Sir Richard Hoghton, 3rd Baronet | |
Lancaster | Sir Robert Bindlosse Thomas Fell | Some sources give Bindlosse excluded |
Preston | William Langton | Not recorded as sitting |
Newton | William Ashurst | |
Wigan | Alexander Rigby | Rigby died 1650 |
Clitheroe | Richard Shuttleworth | Some sources give Shuttleworth excluded |
Liverpool | John Moore Thomas Birch | Moore regicide died 1650 |
Leicestershire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Leicestershire | Sir Arthur Hesilrige Henry Smith | Henry Smith regicide |
Leicester | Lord Grey of Groby Peter Temple | Grey and Temple regicide |
Lincolnshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Lincolnshire | Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet | Some sources give Wray excluded |
Lincoln | Thomas Grantham Thomas Lister | |
Boston | ||
Grimsby | William Wray Edward Rossiter | |
Stamford | Thomas Hatcher John Weaver | Some sources give Hatcher excluded |
Grantham | Sir William Airmine | |
Middlesex | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Middlesex | Sir Edward Spencer | Not recorded as sitting |
Westminster | John Glynne William Bell | Some sources give both excluded |
City of London | Isaac Penington John Venn | Venn died 1650 |
Monmouthshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Monmouthshire | John Herbert Henry Herbert | |
Monmouth | Thomas Pury jun. | |
Norfolk | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Norfolk | ||
Norwich | Thomas Atkins Erasmus Erle | |
King's Lynn | William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury Thomas Toll | |
Yarmouth | Miles Corbet Edward Owner | Corbet Regicide; Owner not recorded |
Thetford | Sir Thomas Wodehouse | |
Castle Rising | Sir John Holland, 1st Baronet | Some sources give Holland excluded |
Northamptonshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Northamptonshire | Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bt John Dryden Bt. | Pickering regicide |
Peterborough | ||
Northampton | Zouch Tate | Not recorded as sitting |
Brackley | ||
Higham Ferrars | Edward Harby | |
Northumberland | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Northumberland | William Fenwick | Some sources give Fenwick excluded |
Newcastle | John Blakiston Robert Ellison | |
Berwick upon Tweed | Sir Thomas Widdrington Robert Scawen | |
Morpeth | John Fiennes George Fenwick | |
Nottinghamshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Nottinghamshire | John Hutchinson Gervase Pigot | Hutchinson regicide |
Nottingham | Gilbert Millington Francis Pierrepoint | Millington regicide |
East Retford | Edward Nevill | |
Oxfordshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Oxfordshire | James Fiennes | Some sources give Fiennes excluded |
Oxford University | John Selden | |
Oxford | John Doyley John Nixon | Some sources give both excluded |
Woodstock | William Lenthall | Speaker |
Banbury | ||
Rutland | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Rutland | Thomas Waite James Harrington | |
Salop | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Shropshire | Humphrey Edwards | Edwards regicide |
Shrewsbury | Thomas Hunt William Masham | |
Bridgnorth | Robert Clive Robert Charlton | Some sources give both excluded |
Ludlow | Thomas Mackworth Thomas Moor | |
Wenlock | William Pierrepont Sir Humphrey Bridges | |
Bishops Castle | Isaiah Thomas John Corbet | Corbet attended only one day |
Somerset | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Somerset | John Harrington | Not recorded as sitting |
Bristol | Richard Aldworth Luke Hodges | |
Bath | James Ashe Alexander Popham | |
Wells | Lislebone Long | |
Taunton | Robert Blake George Searle | |
Bridgwater | Sir Thomas Wroth John Palmer | |
Minehead | Edward Popham Walter Strickland | Popham not recorded as sitting |
Ilchester | William Strode Thomas Hodges | Some sources give both excluded |
Milborne Port | William Carent | |
Staffordshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Staffordshire | John Bowyer Thomas Crompton | Some sources give Bowyer excluded |
Stafford | ||
Newcastle under Lyme | Sir John Merrick | |
Lichfield | Michael Noble | Noble died 1649 |
Tamworth | George Abbot Sir Peter Wentworth | |
Suffolk | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Suffolk | Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston | Not recorded as sitting |
Ipswich | John Gurdon Francis Bacon | Some sources (e.g. HoP website) say Bacon excluded but readmitted 1649 |
Dunwich | Gen. Robert Brewster | |
Orford | Sir Charles Legross | |
Aldeburgh | Squire Bence Alexander Bence | Some sources give Alexander Bence excluded |
Sudbury | Brampton Gurdon | |
Eye | ||
Bury St Edmunds | Sir Thomas Barnardiston | |
Surrey | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Surrey | ||
Southwark | George Thomson George Snelling | |
Bletchingly | John Evelyn, senior Edward Bysshe | Some sources give both excluded |
Reigate | William Lord Viscount Monson George Evelyn | |
Guildford | ||
Gatton | ||
Haslemere | John Goodwin Carew Raleigh | |
Sussex | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Sussex | Anthony Stapley | |
Chichester | ||
Horsham | Hall Ravenscroft | |
Midhurst | William Cawley Sir Gregory Norton Bt. | Cawley regicide |
Lewes | Herbert Morley Henry Shelley | |
New Shoreham | Herbert Springet | Some sources give Springet excluded |
Bramber | James Temple | Regicide |
Steyning | Edward Apsley | |
East Grinstead | Robert Goodwin John Baker | |
Arundel | John Downes | Regicide |
Warwickshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Warwickshire | ||
Coventry | John Barker | Barker originally excluded but reinstated in 1649 |
Warwick | William Purefoy Godfrey Bosvile | Purefoy regicide |
Westmorland | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Westmoreland | James Bellingham Henry Lawrence | Some sources give Lawrence excluded; Bellingham not recorded as sitting |
Appleby | Richard Salway Henry Ireton | Ireton regicide, died November 1651. |
Wiltshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Wiltshire | Edmund Ludlow | Regicide |
Salisbury | Michael Oldisworth John Dove | |
Wilton | Sir Henry Vane (the elder) | |
Downton | Alexander Thistlewaite | Some sources give Thistlethwaite excluded |
Hindon | Robert Reynolds Edmund Ludlow | |
Heytesbury | Thomas Moore Edward Ashe | Some sources give Moore excluded |
Westbury | John Ashe | |
Calne | Hugh Rogers Rowland Wilson | Wilson died 19 February 1650 |
Devizes | Sir Edward Bayntun Robert Nicholas | |
Chippenham | William Eyre of Neston Sir Edward Bayntun | |
Malmesbury | Sir John Danvers | Regicide |
Cricklade | ||
Great Bedwyn | Edmund Harvey | Harvey regicide |
Ludgershall | ||
Old Sarum | Hon. Robert Cecil Sir Richard Lucy | Cecil not recorded as sitting |
Wootton Bassett | ||
Marlborough | Charles Fleetwood Philip Smith | |
Worcestershire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Worcestershire | John Wilde Humphrey Salwey | |
Worcester | John Coucher | Coucher was 88 in 1648 and if not excluded did not attend |
Droitwich | George Wylde II Edmund Wylde | |
Evesham | Richard Cresheld | Cresheld not recorded as sitting |
Bewdley | Nicholas Lechmere | |
Yorkshire | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Yorkshire | ||
York | Sir William Allanson Thomas Hoyle (Alderman) | Hoyle died 1650 |
Kingston upon Hull | Sir Henry Vane, junior Peregrine Pelham | Pelham regicide died 1650 |
Knaresborough | Sir William Constable, Bt. Thomas Stockdale | Constable regicide |
Scarborough | John Anlaby Luke Robinson | |
Ripon | Sir Charles Egerton Sir John Bourchier | Bourchier Regicide; Some sources give Egerton excluded |
Richmond | Thomas Chaloner Francis Thorpe | Chaloner regicide |
Hedon | Sir William Strickland John Alured | Alured regicide died 1651 |
Boroughbridge | Sir Thomas Maulaverer Bt Henry Stapylton | Mauleverer Regicide; Some sources give Stalylton excluded |
Thirsk | Thomas Lascelles William Ayscough | Some sources give Ayscough excluded |
Aldborough | Brian Stapylton James Chaloner | Stapylton not recorded as sitting |
Beverley | James Nelthorpe | |
Pontefract | Henry Arthington William White | |
Malton | Henry Darley John Wastell | |
Northallerton | Richard Darley | |
Cinque Ports | ||
Hastings | Roger Gratwick | |
Romney | ||
Hythe | Henry Heyman Thomas Westrow | |
Dover | John Dixwell Benjamin Weston | Dixwell regicide |
Sandwich | ||
Seaford | ||
Rye | William Hay John Fagg | |
Winchelsea | Samuel Gott | Some sources give Gott excluded |
Wales | ||
Constituency | Members | Notes |
Anglesey | ||
Newburgh | ||
Brecknockshire | Philip Jones | |
Brecknock | Ludovic Lewis | |
Cardiganshire | Sir Richard Pryse, 1st Baronet | |
Cardigan | Thomas Wogan | |
Carmarthenshire | ||
Carmarthen | ||
Carnarvonshire | ||
Carnarvon | ||
Denbighshire | ||
Denbigh | ||
Flintshire | John Trevor | |
Flint | ||
Glamorgan | Philip, Lord Herbert | Herbert succeeded to peerage in 1649 |
Cardiff | Algernon Sidney | |
Merioneth | John Jones | |
Montgomeryshire | ||
Montgomery | George Devereux | |
Pembrokeshire | ||
Pembroke | Sir Hugh Owen, 1st Baronet | |
Haverford West | ||
Radnorshire | Arthur Annesley | Some sources give Annesley excluded |
Radnor |
![]() | This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations .(October 2013) |
The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In September 1640, King Charles I issued writs summoning a parliament to convene on 3 November 1640. He intended it to pass financial bills, a step made necessary by the costs of the Bishops' Wars against Scotland. The Long Parliament received its name from the fact that, by Act of Parliament, it stipulated it could be dissolved only with agreement of the members; and those members did not agree to its dissolution until 16 March 1660, after the English Civil War and near the close of the Interregnum.
Pride's Purge is the name commonly given to an event that took place on 6 December 1648, when soldiers prevented members of Parliament considered hostile to the New Model Army from entering the House of Commons of England.
The Rump Parliament was the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride commanded soldiers to purge the Long Parliament, on 6 December 1648, of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason.
Nathaniel Fiennes, c. 1608 to 16 December 1669, was a younger son of the Puritan nobleman and politician, William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele. He sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659, and served with the Parliamentarian army in the First English Civil War. In 1643, he was dismissed from the army for alleged incompetence after surrendering Bristol and sentenced to death before being pardoned. Exonerated in 1645, he actively supported Oliver Cromwell during The Protectorate, being Lord Keeper of the Great Seal from 1655 to 1659.
Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659 and became Earl of Leicester in 1677. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, when he was known as Viscount Lisle, a subsidiary title of the Earls of Leicester.
Andover was the name of a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1295 to 1307, and again from 1586, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It was a parliamentary borough in Hampshire, represented by two Members of Parliament until 1868, and by one member from 1868 to 1885. The name was then transferred to a county constituency electing one MP from 1885 until 1918.
Denis Bond was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1656. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and served as president of the Council of State during the Commonwealth.
John Fiennes was the third son of Puritan noble and politician William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele. He served in the Parliamentarian army during the First English Civil War, before resigning his commission when elected MP for Morpeth in 1645. Excluded from Parliament by Pride's Purge in December 1648, he largely avoided politics thereafter but was appointed to Cromwell's Upper House in 1658.
Edmund Dunch, 1st Baron Burnell of East Wittenham (1602–1678) was an English Member of Parliament who supported the Parliamentary cause before and during the English Civil War. During the Interregnum he sat as a member of parliament. In 1659, after the Protectorate and before the Restoration, regaining his seat in the Rump he also sat in Committee of Safety. After the restoration of the monarchy he was not exempted under the Act of Pardon and Oblivion but the titles granted to him under the Protectorate were not recognised under the restored monarchy of Charles II.
Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1676. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War.
Nathaniel Hallowes (1582–1661) of Dethick, Derbyshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1653 and again in 1659. He was an active Parliamentarian during the English Civil War.
Richard Lee was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1648.
Sir Thomas Jervoise was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1653. He was a staunch supporter of the Parliamentary side during the English Civil War.
John Barker was an English draper and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1653. He supported the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War.
Francis Buller was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1624 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War.