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I. The Nature, Functions and remit of the House of Commons

Speaking at the start of the 1621 Parliament, with memories of the disastrous Addled Parliament clearly uppermost in his thoughts, James I reminded the assembled members of both Houses ‘what a Parliament is’, though he added, ‘I know you know it already’.CD 1621, ii. 3. In presuming to define a Parliament to its own members, James was tacitly acknowledging a point of fundamental importance – that the purposes of England’s representative assembly were far from universally agreed.

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These volumes of the History contain biographies of the 1,754 Members who sat in the House of Commons between the opening of the first Jacobean Parliament in March 1604 and the dissolution of Charles I’s third Parliament in March 1629, together with entries on an additional 29 individuals who for various reasons have not been considered full Members. Those whose status had not been resolved by the end of the Parliament in which they sat have been included in the main sequence.

Banbury

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Banbury, a small market town, was enfranchised as a single member constituency and incorporated by a charter of 1554.A. Beesley, Banbury, 219-22. Twelve aldermen, one of whom served as bailiff, and 12 capital burgesses together constituted both the common council and the electorate. VCH Oxon. x. 73-4; R.K. Gilkes ‘Banbury: the Pattern of Local Govt.’, Cake and Cockhorse, v.

Stamford

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Positioned astride the River Welland, Stamford occupied an anomalous geographical position, as it was situated where the counties of Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland met. The borough was incorporated in 1462, with a council consisting of an annually elected ‘alderman’, 12 other ‘comburgesses’, and 12 ‘capital burgesses’. Its record of regular representation in Parliament began five years later. HP Commons 1558-1603, i.

AYSCOUGH, Edward.

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EITHERof South Kelsey, Lincs. and Lincoln’s Inn, London. bap. 1970, 7th but 1st surv. s. of Sir Edward Ayscough of South Kelsey and Hester, da. of Thomas Grantham of Goltho, Lincs. and St. Katherine’s, nr. Lincoln, Lincs.Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. 1), p. 65. educ. L. Inn 1608, called either 1615 or 1616. LI Admiss.; LI Black Bk. ii. 175, 188. suc. fa. 1612. C142/328/163. unm. Sub-commr. inquiry into exacted fees 1623,Bodl. Tanner 101, no. 67. commr. inquiry into exacted fees 1627-at least 1635, CSP Dom. 1627-8, p. 232; 1629-31, p. 179; CSP Dom. Addenda 1625-49, p. 510. to levy Crown debts 1628, HMC Rutland, i. 485. to discover and prosecute those who have concealed customs due for tobacco 1635, to investigate the misdemeanours of the alum farmers 1635-at least 1640, to compound with offenders for importing or growing tobacco 1636, to inquire into frauds in the import of deal boards and fir timber 1638. CSP Dom. 1635-6, p. 377; 1637-8, pp. 335, 363; 1639-40, p. 394; Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry 1625-40 ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv), 42, 226.Ancient, G. Inn 1627. PBG Inn, i. 277.Commr. inquiry, exacted fees, Notts. 1634, encroachments, Palace of Westminster 1636. C181/4, f. 159; CSP Dom. 1635-6, p. 301.ORof Nuthall, Notts. and Gray’s Inn, London. b. c.1591, 1st s. of Sir Roger Ayscough of Nuthall, storekeeper of the Ordnance 1609-12, and Dorothy, da. of William Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe, Lincs. educ. Southwell, Notts. (Mr. Reynolds); Caius, Camb. 1608, aged 17; G. Inn 1608, called 1617. m. 13 Jan. 1618, Mary, da. of Francis Roberts of Willesden, Mdx., 1s. suc. fa. c.1614. Lincs. Peds. 63-4; The Gen. v. 303; Al. Cant.; J. Venn, Biog. Hist. of Caius, i. 197; PBG Inn, i. 226, 277; PROB 11/160, f. 359.
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