Name Index

To

Devon County Members of Parliament, Part IV The Tudor Period (1485-1603)

Trans. Devon Assoc., vol. 47, (1915), pp. 357-371

by

J.J. Alexander

Prepared by Michael Steer

The paper was read at the Association’s July 21, 1915 Exeter meeting.  The author asserts that between 1478 and 1529, a period that produced great intellectual movements in England and on the Continent, the official returns of members of parliament are entirely wanting, and except for a few places like Exeter where the names are recorded in the local archives, there is no way of knowing who the parliamentarians were. There are also several gaps and imperfections in the returns between 1536 and 1562. Large blue velvet-covered books were used for record-keeping by the Parliament of England, and it is in these “Blue Books” that the majority of recorded member’s names survive.  The paper is from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal that can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.