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12 CHARLES II.-A. D. 1660. MEETING OF THE CONVENTION PARLIAMENT.] April 25, 1660. This day, the New Parliament met according to appointment. Journals of both Houses now begin again; but before we enter upon the Proceedings of this ever-memorable Convention of two Estates, we shall present the reader with the names of those members who composed the lower of them, viz. the House of Commons; reserving a List of the Peers to another place, when more of them were assembled together, with their King in the midst of them:

A LIST of the Names of the Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, and Barons of the Cinque Ports, of England and Wales, as they were returned to the CrownOffice, for the Parliament begun at Westminster, April 25, 1660, commonly called the CONVENTION PARLIAMENT, which was sitting at the Return of King Charles, and voted his RESTORATION. Where there was a double Return, those in the Italic Character were not allowed to sit.

John Dormer. Wicomb,

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Lestwithiel,

John Clayton,
Walter Moyle.
Henry Ford.

Truro,
Walter Vincent,
Edward Boscawen,
Henry Roberts.
Bodmyn,

Henry Roberts,
John Scilly,

Sir Peter Killegrew,
Helston,

Thomas Robinson,
-Godolphin,
Sir Peter Killegrew.
Camelford,
Sir Peter Killegrew,
William Cotton,
Henry Nicol,
Samuel Trelawney.
Westlow,
John Buller,
John Keneal.
Grampound,

Hugh Boscawen, made
his Election for
Cornwall.
Thomas Herie.
Eastlow,
Henry Seymour,
John Trelawney,
George Strel ey,
Nathaniel Moyle.
Penryn,
Samuel Enys,
James Cobins.

George Howard,
Ellis Crimes.
Clifton, Dartmouth,
Hardness,

John Hale,

Frederick.

Beralstone,

Geo. Howard, made his Election for Tavistock. John Maynard, Sir Francis Drake, Tiverton,

Tho. Bampfield, made his Election for Ex

eter.

Robert Shapcot.
Ashburton,
Sir William Courtney,
John Fowel.

Honyton,
Sir John Young,
Samuel Serle.

Okehampton,

Edward Wise,
Josias Calmady,
Robert Reynolds.

Dorsetshire,
John Fitz-James,

Robert Coker.
Poole.

Sir Walter Erle,
George Cooper.
Dorchester,
Denzil Hollis,
John Whiteway.
Lyme-Regis,

Walter Young,
Tho. Moor, made his
Election for Heytes-
bury.

Weymouth.
Gen. Edw. Montagu,
Sir William Penn.

Melcomb-Regis,
Henry Weltham,
Samuel Bond,
Peter Middleton.
Bridport,

John Drake,
Henry Henly.

Shaftsbury,
Thomas Grove,
James Baker.

Wareham, George Pitt, Robert Colleford. Corfe-Castle, Ralph Banks, John Tregonwell. Essex, John Bramston, Edward Turner,

Colchester,

Sir Harbottle Grimston, Speaker, John Shaw.

Malden,
Tristam Conyers,

Henry Mildinay, de-
clared void,
Edward Harris.
Harwich,
Capel Luckyn,
Henry Wright.

Gloucestershire,
Matthew Hale,
Edward Stephens.
Gloucester,

Edward Masse,
James Stephens.
Cirencester.

Thomas Master,
Henry Powell.

Tewkesbury,

Henry Capell,
Richard Dawdeswell.
Herefordshire,
Edward Harley,
William Hinson, alias
Powell, made his
Election for Dover.
Hertford,
Roger Bosworth,
Herbert Wastfailing.
Weobly,

James Pitts,
Richard Weston,
Both declared void.
Leominster,

John Birch,
Edward Pytt.
Hertfordshire,
Rowland Litton,
Henry Cæsar.

St. Albans,
Richard Jennings,
William Foxwist,
Col. Alban Cor.
Hertford.
James Cooper,
Arthur Spark.
Huntingdonshire,
Rob. Lord Mandevil,
Henry Cromwell.
Huntingdon,

John Bernard,
Nicholas Pedley.
Kent,

Sir John Tufton,
Sir Edw. Deering.

Canterbury,
Sir Anth. Archer,
Heneage Finch.
Rochester,
John Mansham,
Peter Petit.

Maidstone, Thomas Twisden, Robert Barnham.

William Gardiner.

Hugh Forth.
Clithero,
Sir Ralph Ashton,
William Hulton.
Liverpool,
William Stanley,
Gilbert Ireland.

Leicestershire,
Thomas Merry,
Jathew Babinton.
Leicester.

John Grey,
Thomas Armstrong.
Lincolnshire,

Edward Rossiter,
Sir Geo. Saunderson.
Lincoln,

John Monson,
Thomas Meeres.
Boston,

Sir Anthony Irby,
Thomas Hatcher.
Great Grimsby,
William Wray,
Edward King.

Stamford,

John Hatcher,
Francis Wingfield,
John Weaver.
Grantham,
Thomas Skipwith,
John Newton,
William Eliis.
Middlesex,
Sir Wm. Waller,
Lancelot Leke.
Westminster,
Gilbert Gerrard,
Thomas Clargis.
London,
Wm. Wild, Recorder.
Major-gen. Brown,
John Robinson,
William Vincent.
Monmouthshire,
Henry lord Herbert,
William Morgan.

Monmouth,
Sir Trevor Williams.

Norfolk,

Sir Hora. Townshend,
T. Richardson, Baron
of Cramond.
Norwich,

William Baruham
Thomas Rant.

Lynn-Regis,
Sir Ralph Hare,
Edward Walpole.
Yarmouth,

John Potts,
Sir Wm. D'Oyley,
Sir John Palgrave,
Miles Corbet.

Thetford,
Sir Philip Wodehouse,
Robert Paston.
Castle-Rising,
Sir John Holland,
John Spelman.
Northamptonshire,
Sir Henry Yelverton,
John Crew.

Peterborough,

C. lord de le Spencer, Humphrey Orme. Francis St. John, Northampton, Sir John Norwich, Richard Rainsford. Brackley, Thomas Crewe, William Lisle, jun. Higham-Ferrers, Sir Thomas Dacres, Edward Harvey. Northumberland, Sir William Fenwick, Ralph Delaval. Newcastle upon-Tyne, Robert Ellison, William Calverley. Berwick,

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Sir Thomas Widdrington, one of the Lords Commissioners the Great Seal of England. Made his Election for York. John Rushworth.

Morpeth. Thomas Widdrington, Col. Ralph Knight. Nottinghamshire, William Pierepoint, Gilbert lord Haughton. Nottingham, Arthur Stanhope, Col. John Hutchinson, expelled the House June 9, and rendered incapable of bearing any Office of public Trust. East-Retford. William Hickman,

Oxford,

Henry Carey, viscount
Falkland.
James Haxley.
Woodstock,
Sir Tho. Spencer,
Edward Atkins,
Banbury,
Sir Anthony Cope.
Rutlandshire,
Philip Sherard,
Samuel Brown.
Shropshire,
Sir Wm. Whitmore,
Henry Vernon.
Shrewsbury,
Samuel Jones,
Thomas Jones.
Bridgenorth,
Walter Acton,
John Bennet.

Ludlow,
Tim. Lyttleton,
John Charlton.

Great Wenlock,
Sir Francis Lawley,
Thomas Whitmore.
Bishops-Castle.
William Oakley,
Edmund Waring.
Somersetshire,
George Horner,
Hugh Smith.

Bristol,
John Stephens,
John Knight, sen.
Bath,
Alexander Popham,
William Prynne.
Wells,
Thomas White,
Henry Bull.

Taunton,
William Windham,
Thomas Gorger.

Bridgewater,
Sir Tho. Wroth,
Francis Rolle.

Minehead,
Francis Luttrel,
Charles Prymme.
Ilchester,
Robert Hunt,
Henry Dunster.

Milborn-Port,
William Milborn,
Michael Maller.

Winchester,

Tho. Cole, made his Election for Peters

field,

John Hooke.

Southampton,

William Stanley, Robert Richbell.

Portsmouth,

Rd. Norton, made his
Election for South-,
amptonshire,
Henry Whitehead.
Yarmouth,
Sir George Leigh,
Richard Lucy.
Petersfield,
Thomas Cole,
Arthur Bold.

Newport,
Robert Dillington,
William Oglander.
Stockbridge,
Francis Rivet,
Sir John Evelin.
Newton,

Sir John Barrington,
Sir Henry Worsley.
Christ-Church,
John Hildesley,
Henry Fulse.

Whitchurch, Robert Wallop, He was expelled the House June 11, and excepted out of the Act of general Pardon and Oblivion, in respect only of such Pains, Penalties and Forfeitures, (not extending to Life) as should be thought fit to be inflicted on him, Giles Hungerford. Lymington,

John Button,
Henry Bromfield.
Andover,

John Trott,
John Collins.

Staffordshire,
Edward Bagot,
William Snead.
Litchfield,
Michael Biddolph,
Thomas Manners.
Stafford,
Sir Charles Wolseley,
John Swinfen.
Newcastle under Line,
John Bowyer,
Samuel Terrick.

Tamworth, Rd. Newdigate, lord chief justice of the Upper Bench.

Thomas Fox.

Suffolk,

Sir Henry Felton,

Henry North.
Ipswich,
Nathaniel Bacon,

Francis Bacon.
Dunwich,

John Rous,
Henry Beddingfield.
Orford,
Walter Devereux,
Allen Broderick.
Aldborough,

Robert Brook,
Thomas Bacon.
Sudbury,

John Gurdon,
Joseph Brand,
Robert Cordel.

Eye,
Charles Cornwallis,
George Reeve.

St. Edmunsbury,
Sir Henry Crofts,
Sir John Duncombe,
Thomas Chaplin,
Thomas Clarke.
Surrey,
Francis Angier, baron
of Langford.
Daniel Harvey.
Southwark,
John Langham,
Thomas Bludworth.
Blechingley,
Sir John Evelin,
John Goodwyn.
Ryegate,
John Hele,
Edward Thurland.
Guildford,
Sir Rd. Onslow,
Arthur Onslow.
Galton,
Thomas Turgis,
William Oldfield,

Roger James,

Rob.Wood. Declared
void.

Haslemere,
John Westbrook,
Richard West.
Sussex,
Sir John Pelham,
Henry Goring.
Chichester,
Henry Peckham,
John Farrington,
William Cawley.

Horsham,
Thomas Middleton,
Hall. Ravenscroft.