Berwick-upon-Tweed was a constituency of the

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Berwick-upon-Tweed Berwick-upon-Tweed (), sometimes known as Berwick-on-Tweed or simply Berwick, is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, and the northernmost town in England. The 2011 United Kingdom census recor ...

was created a

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between 1119 and 1124,Margaret D. Young, ''The Parliaments of Scotland: Burgh and Shire Commissioners'', volume 2 (Edinburgh, 1993) p. 770. and was intermittently represented in Parliament.M. J. Taylor
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: the House of Commons 1509-1558'' (1982). 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

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whose name is recorded is Archibald Manderston, who attended on 11 April and 13 April 1481. No commissioner for Berwick-upon-Tweed is listed in the sederunt of 19 March 1482.''RPS''
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The burgh was lost to the English later that year, and sent no further representatives to the Scottish parliament. By 1512 the town had been enfranchised and was sending members to the

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