Castle Rising (UK Parliament constituency)
Castle Rising | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1558–1832 | |
Seats | Two |
Castle Rising was a
History
The borough extended over four parishes - Castle Rising, Roydon, North Wootton and South Wootton, in rural Norfolk to the north-east of King's Lynn. Castle Rising had once been a market town and seaport, but long before the Reform Act had declined to little more than a village. In 1831, the population of the borough was 888, and contained 169 houses.
Castle Rising was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote was vested in the owners of particular properties ("burgage tenements"), and that consequently the absolute right to nominate both the MPs could be bought and sold. Although it was possible for the landowner to create multiple voters by giving a reliable nominee notional ownership of the tenements - as was done in many other burgage boroughs - in Castle Rising the number of voters was kept as low as possible, and contested elections were almost unknown.
The
Castle Rising was abolished as a constituency by the Reform Act of 1832.
Members of Parliament
1558–1640
Year | First member | Second member |
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1558 | Sir John Radcliffe | Sir Nicholas L'Estrange[2] |
1559 | Thomas Steyning | Sir Nicholas L'Estrange[3] |
1562–1563 | Sir Nicholas L'Estrange | Francis Carew[3] |
1571 | Sir Nicholas L'Estrange | George Dacres[3] |
1572 | Nicholas Mynn | Edward Flowerdew, sick and replaced Jan 1581 by Sir William Drury[3] |
1584 | Michael Stanhope | Richard Drake[3] |
1586 | Philip Wodehouse | Thomas Norris[3] |
1588 | Bartholomew Kemp | Richard Stubbe[3] |
1593 | John Townshend |
Henry Spelman[3] |
1597 | Thomas Guybon | Henry Spelman[3] |
1601 | John Peyton | Robert Townshend[3] |
1604–1611 | Thomas Monson | Sir Robert Townshend |
1614 | Sir Robert Wynd |
Thomas Binge
|
1621–1622 | Robert Spiller | John Wilson
|
1624 | Sir Robert Spiller | Sir Thomas Bancroft |
1625 | Sir Hamon le Strange | Sir Thomas Bancroft |
1626 | Sir Hamon le Strange | Sir Thomas Bancroft |
1628 | Sir Robert Cotton |
Sir Thomas Bancroft |
1629–1640 | No parliaments summoned |
1640–1832
Notes
- ^ Pages 145 and 146, Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1957), The Walpole family are noted as "Earl of Orford".
- ^ "History of Parliament". Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ Hatton was also elected for Higham Ferrers, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Castle Rising.
- ^ Walpole was also elected for King's Lynn, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Castle Rising.
- ^ Wedderburn was also elected for Okehampton, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Castle Rising.
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- J. Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)