Berwick_(Parliament_of_Scotland_constituency)

Berwick (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Berwick (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Add article description


Berwick-upon-Tweed was a constituency of the Parliament of Scotland.

Quick Facts Former constituency, Abolished ...

History

Berwick-upon-Tweed was created a royal burgh between 1119 and 1124,[1] and was intermittently represented in Parliament.[2] The burgh is known to have been represented in the meetings of 20 November 1469, 6 May 1471, 6–7 May 1478, 1 March 1479 and 2 April 1481, but the only burgh commissioner whose name is recorded is Archibald Manderston,[1] who attended on 11 April[3] and 13 April 1481.[4]

No commissioner for Berwick-upon-Tweed is listed in the sederunt of 19 March 1482.[5] The burgh was lost to the English later that year, and sent no further representatives to the Scottish parliament.[1] By 1512 the town had been enfranchised and was sending members to the Parliament of England.[2]


References

  1. Margaret D. Young, The Parliaments of Scotland: Burgh and Shire Commissioners, volume 2 (Edinburgh, 1993) p. 770.
  2. M. J. Taylor, Berwick-upon-Tweed in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (1982).

See also



Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Berwick_(Parliament_of_Scotland_constituency), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.