Minehead was a parliamentary borough in

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, forming part of the town of Minehead, which elected two

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(MPs) to the

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from 1563 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the

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Members of Parliament

MPs 1563–1629

* ''Constituency probably established 1563''Most sources date Minehead's enfranchisement from 1563, which seems clearly implied by the House of Commons Journals, but Browne Willis gives two names (Thomas Fitzwilliams and John Fowler) as the town's representatives in the 1559 Parliament. Sir John Neale notes that the names differ from those given for 1563 "which normally is a sign of reliability"

MPs 1640–1832

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References

*Robert Beatson, ''A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament'' (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807

*D Brunton & D H Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) *''Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803'' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808

* J E Neale, ''The Elizabethan House of Commons'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) * J Holladay Philbin, ''Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965) *Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig — Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973) * *{{cite web, last=Jenkins, first=Terry, title=Minehead, url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/constituencies/minehead, work=The History of Parliament, publisher=The History of Parliament Trust, access-date=24 September 2012 Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1563 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832 Rotten boroughs

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