St Mawes | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Cornwall |
Major settlements | St Mawes |
1562–1832 | |
Seats | Two |
Replaced by | West Cornwall |
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 | |
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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 | |
Useless Parliament (1625) | 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 | |||
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