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Heytesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

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134: 89:, in the south-west of Wiltshire. In 1831, when the population of the whole parish was 1,394, the borough had a population of only 81. Already a small settlement, much of Heytesbury burned to the ground in 1765, but this did not affect its right to return members to parliament. The houses lost were subsequently rebuilt. 1752: 1702: 1747: 96:
borough, meaning that the right to vote was reserved to the householders of specific properties or "burgage tenements" within the borough; there were twenty-six of these tenements by the time of the Reform Act, and all had been owned by the
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A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807
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since the 17th century, giving them control of the choice of the two Members. Shortly before the Reform Act, the head of the family,
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in Wiltshire which elected two Members of Parliament. From 1449 until 1707 it was represented in the
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Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803
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Heytesbury was abolished as a constituency by the Reform Act, which swept away all such
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)
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The borough consisted of a small part of the small market town or large village of
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Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832
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Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1449
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The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III
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The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland
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Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales
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Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire (historic)
1586:"BISSE, Edward (c.1588-by 1647), of Spargrove, Som" 48: 40: 20: 73:until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the 1492:The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504 1564:"History of Parliament 1558–1603: Heytesbury" 1523:"History of Parliament 1509–1558: Heytesbury" 8: 1717:(London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1816) 17: 1724:(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965) 632: 163: 1671:Succeeded as The Lord Bridport (in the 1462: 1558: 1556: 1554: 1552: 1550: 1548: 1546: 1544: 1542: 1540: 1517: 1515: 1513: 1511: 1509: 1507: 1505: 1503: 1501: 7: 731:Heytesbury was unrepresented in the 1632:Created The Lord Auckland (in the 14: 1698:. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 780:Not represented in the restored 132: 1355:George James Welbore Agar-Ellis 743:Parliaments of the Protectorate 114:South Wiltshire county division 1707:(London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) 1610:William A'Court Ashe from 1768 1: 1590:historyofparliamentonline.org 1566:. History of Parliament Trust 1525:. 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Index

borough constituency
House of Commons
1832
parliamentary borough
House of Commons of England
British House of Commons
Reform Act 1832
Heytesbury
burgage
heads of the A'Court family
Sir William Ashe A'Court
rotten and pocket boroughs
South Wiltshire county division
incomplete
adding missing items
John Kingsmill
Sir John Seymour
Robert Seymour
William Sharington
Edward Chamberlain
Thomas Throckmorton
Thomas Eynns
Fulk Mounslowe alias Langley
Thomas Hill
Richard Forsett
Christopher Dymars
Henry Unton
?Thomas Chaffyn
Thomas Hungerford
Fulk Mounslowe alias Langley

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