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FIVE CENTURIES OF PARLIAMENT research which
SEARCH FOR UNKNOWN MEMBERS.
1258 to 1832.
The first Report of the House of Commons Records Committee, after three years' work, has just been completed, and was presented to the Prime Minister before Parli- ment adjourned for the Christmas
recess.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, M.P., upon whom the main part of this most valuable work of research has fallen, surveyed in an interview the general scope of the report. "It deals," he said, "with the personnel
and politics of Parliament from the year 1258 to 1832. We first of all Burroyed what had already been done, that is to say, the information we have at present, which is based mainly upon the Blue Book pub | jlished by the Public Record Office in 1878, and the work of William Prynne, in the seventeenth contury. and that of Browne Willis, in the jeighteenth century.
"We found, of course, there are Tuig gaps in
our knowledge of the names of members, and a complete absence of anything in the nature of identification of the individual M. P. We go on to deal with the soнrees from which the missing names may be recovered--the muni 'cipal records, the Rolls of Parlia- ment, and the Journals of the House, which begin in 1547. From these sources we have collected over 17.000 names not given in the official return of 1878. These have all been card-indexed, both under con- 1129 G670 6006 2630 3932, from stituencies and under Parliaments. Shanghai.
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A General Post Office notifica- tion gives the following unclaim- ed correspondence, etc., waiting at the Post Office and also un- claimed radio telegrams at the Radio Telegraph Office, Govern- ment Building:-
Willoughby Mission House, from! Chefoo.
Complete List of Parliaments. "We have compiled also a com- plete list of Parliaments which have 4717 5894 7127 2490 5887, from met or been summoned and the Shanghai.
Idates of their sessions and diasolu- 4717 (439 3203 4141), from tions. Many of these dates have Chefoo.
been collected almost accidentally 0022 3883 1105 1705 5714, from from the payments made to the Shanghai.
borough members. For instance, 1837, from Shanghai.
the Rommey records have enabled us 1795 6534 6670 0022 0448 3448 to calculate the dates of the dissolu- ¡tion of several fifteenth century 3293, from Shanghai.
2639 5804 0577 0046 5714 2733, Parliaments. from Shanghai.
"Particulars, too, have been col- W. Burke, jr., Peninsula Hotel, lected of all the contests which havo from Batavia Centrum.
6459 1923 0587 7115 1601 6068) 3067 0735 5894, from Tientsin.
3057 0735 6894, from Shanghai. 0845, from Shanghaibo. Thy Teng Seng, 29 Road, from Soochow
Cow Seng
gene to the poll (or to show of Yikyonder, from Shanghai.
hands in earlier days); and they 0068 3166 6794 1648 3029 5065 have been card-Indexed under each Anti-Mist Chemical Co., S. Ba!-3046, from Canton.
Parliament. Knowing the material four, J. A. Boularin, E. Brocard,
4674 0069 6324 7130 2582 0674 available we have recommended that Mr. ond Mrs. C. B. Brooke, G.
a thorough work on the personnel of 0109, from Tientsin. Borea, P. P. Buchler, S. H. Bryant, China Bird Co., B. Clement, Mrs. V. I. Caton, Mrs. A. Clear, Mrs. M. De Choy, R. Clayton, Mrs. S. F. Chalfin, Mrs. W. D. Clark, P. O. Curry, Dr. R. E. Chambers, G. Carlli, G. Cramon, J. W. C. Davidsun, Miss M. Dallas, G. Doyal, S. J. A. Daoud, Miss J. Dark, D. Davies, F. H. Davies, Ampy & Fely Franquelli, Joe Fleming. V J. Fielding, Miss Margaret Finch, G. Gonchadoff, L. A. S. Gomes, A. A. Gile, Mra. Gerschel, C. Goldkette, J. F. Garges, Rev. M. Hensley, F. A. Hopking, M. C. Holloway, S. H. Haskell, J. Hen- derson, G. Herrlien. Mrs. W. H.
1796 6534 6670 6007 2639 2052-
6281, from Amoy.
SANTA CLAUS “EXPELLED.”
Michigan Says He Is Not "Gospel Truth."
The Council of Religious Educa-
Hudapeth, International Trust Co.,tion of Michigan have sentenced
F. Javier, F. H. Jewell, Jeswanki Trading Agencies S., C. Jeusen, Capt. S. B. Kitching ss. 'Chasinar,'
R. E. Kramer, c/o Sullivan Machin-
Santa Claus to expulsion from Michigan Sunday Schools.
The Council contend that Santa
is not "Gospel truth," and bellef
be
ery Co., O. Katz, John Kempf, H. J. in his existence must not Lee, S. McKirdy, c/o M.M.C. F. taught. Ministers in Detroit op- Miles, J. S. McCall, Miss M. Mur- pose this, says the British United phy, Dr. and Mrs. F. Metcalf, Mrs. Press.
Church,
declared
V. Moesserec, Eric McMillan es. "We shall call witnesses," said Dr. Chester Emmerson, of North Chasinar, Reni Mockly, Misa R. Metcalf, J. McCarthy, Mrs. E. P. Woodward Congregational Church. MacDonald, Miss F. Moorhead, D. "They will be children, happy in Macleod, A. G. Wm. Mar, Miss K. | the belief that Santa Claus exists." Matheson, Mra. K. Nelson, Northern | "--Dr. Joseph Vance, of the First Bank Ltd., W. C. Newbern, R. Presbyterian Pollak, C. E. Peterson, Mr. Piters or Cherniakoff, G. Parisat, Mias J. Ruot, I. W. Rodgers, D. Ramos, K. "Of course he's a myth," he Szeto, V'm Stawart, W. O. Swith, eaid, "but a beautiful one: Chil Mrs. T. Soares, Miss M. Sollman, L. } dren without Santa Claus' would Srichandra, (Siamese Student), F. be like. life without play." H. Tyson, W. U. J. Tabalra, Dr. J.
that the Council could not expél Santa from his church.
Other Detroit ministers support:
A. Urquhart, J. Vacheron, Capt. J. this contention, but the Council A. Vemon, H. Whitehead, J. Asays "the place of Santa Claus Is Wells, Dr. G. C. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. | in the home and not the Sunday. M. Webb. Basilio Yboa.
Registered Articles.
E. Fleischmann, J. Gutierrez, C. E. Johnson, Mrs. E. Mckenny, Odeon, China Co., Ltd., G. Parisot, A. Thompson, Yun Soue.
Unpaid Correspondence. -M. Acosta, W., Becherer, Mr. and Mrs. L Dungan, Mrs. L. J. Farn worth, Dr. Feley, E. Y. Keng. W. J. Manning, G. Reid, B. S. Sugge,
School."
DO HAVE MERCY.
Governor-General on Pedestrians.
Melbourne. "Have mercy on the pedestrians because spare parts for him arb difficult to get," said the Governor- General (Sir Isaac Isaacs) at the Royal Automobile Club's dinner, Unclaimed Radio Telegrama.
Other sayings, were:- Khioenjan, Wing Lok Street, When two, motor cars get from Batavin.rusho wa Njealous and start racing, it gener-
LeeShipping Company, from ally ends in a dead, hekt. Shanghaiyahe sa te pofThe frat motor car I saw be
0145 from Amoy na autolonged to a Russian Prince. There Slangan; from Swatow. Hai awere more, Ruslan
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"There must be at least 35,000 persons who were members of Parliament before the year 1832; and while it is true that in the fourteenth century the lives of bur- gess members must remain largely a terra incognita, yet from 1,400 Parliament should be undertaken. onwards the personnel of the House Such a work would be of consider-of Commons occupied. positions, able importance to the history of both in their own counties and in the country, to sociology-giving, as official life, sufficiently well record- it were, cross sections to the society ed to make identification practicable. of the day-and, above all, to con-
"But 33,000 biographies is ob
one-man job. The stitutional history, showing the viously not a position at any time held by the report mentions that the late Mr. House of Commons in the govern W. Duncomb Pink did during his ment and estimation of the country. long life complle quite half the "It is obvious, for instance, that biographies of the members from those officials who constituted the the year 1500 onwards. These bio- Cabinet of the day sat very much graphies can, more largely in the House of Com- mons in medieval times than is generally supposed. In the same way the lawyers used Parliament as a stepping-stone in their learned career.
of course, now be largely supplemented, and they are only to be found in manuscript at the John Rylands Library in Man- chester. Mr. Pink was particularly good on the Civil War period, and it is greatly to be regretted that practically none of his work sur vived in print.
"The report will be accompanied by appendices giving the lists of
"Thousands of interesting side-1 Parliaments, and assemblies which were not true Parliaments, of hte lights are thrown by this work of namos recovered for those blank research upon the development of Parliaments from 1478 to 1542, and democracy-for example, the begin of the number of boroughs and ning of contests going to the poll,] counties represented at different the early by-elections, the growing times. These will show the gradual continuity of Parliament, the re- increase after 1421 of the boroughs presentation of the Ministry in the represented, the great changes in House,, the decision on disputed re- the House of Commons made at the turns, the wooing of constituencies, time of the Civil Wars, and the in-and the payment of members. clusion then of Ireland and Scot- land.
"The interesting part about the payment of members is its cessation became "One appendix will deal with the as competition for seats state of the municipal records in the keener. The last member of the old more ancient of the Parliamentary Parliament who is said to have boroughs, and another one, of ex-drawn his pay was Andrew Marvel, ceptional importance, has been con- the Radical member for Hull, whe tributed by the authorities of the sat in the Pensioners' Parliament Probate Registry at Somerset from 1661 to 1678," House, showing the material in print and otherwise, which is avail able for studying wills.
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