Berwick (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

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

Not to be confused with North Berwick (Parliament of Scotland constituency).

Berwick-upon-Tweed
Former Constituency
for the Parliament of Scotland
Former constituency
Abolished1482
Replaced byBerwick-upon-Tweed

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).
  3. Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1481/4/11.
  4. RPS, 1481/4/17.
  5. RPS, 1482/3/2.

See also


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