Berwick (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

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

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Former constituency
for the Parliament of Scotland
Former constituency
Abolished| 1482
Replaced by| Berwick-upon-Tweed

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

## History

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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

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1. ^ a b c Margaret D. Young, The Parliaments of Scotland: Burgh and Shire Commissioners, volume 2 (Edinburgh, 1993) p. 770.
2. ^ a b 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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* Berwickshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

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* Dingwall
* Dornoch
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* Dunfermline
* Dysart
* Edinburgh
* Elgin
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* Glasgow
* Haddington
* Inveraray
* Inverbervie
* Inverkeithing
* Inverness
* Inverurie
* Irvine
* Jedburgh
* Kilrenny
* Kinghorn
* Kintore
* Kirkcaldy
* Kirkcudbright
* Kirkwall
* Lanark
* Lauder
* Linlithgow
* Lochmaben
* Montrose
* Nairn
* New Galloway
* North Berwick
* Peebles
* Perth
* Pittenweem
* Queensferry
* Renfrew
* Rothesay
* Rutherglen
* St Andrews
* Sanquhar
* Selkirk
* Stirling
* Stranraer
* Tain
* Whithorn
* Wick
* Wigtown

Shires|

* Aberdeen
* Argyll
* Ayr
* Banff
* Berwick
* Bute
* Caithness
* Clackmannan
* Cromarty
* Dumbarton
* Dumfries
* Edinburgh
* Elgin and Forres
* Fife
* Forfar
* Haddington
* Inverness
* Kincardine
* Kinross
* Kirkcudbright
* Lanark
* Linlithgow
* Nairn
* Orkney and Shetland
* Peebles
* Perth
* Renfrew
* Ross
* Roxburgh
* Selkirk
* Stirling
* Sutherland
* Tarbert
* Wigtown

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