Key to Appendix

Name

The 62 members of the Other House arranged in alphabetical order by surname.

Sources: HMC Lords, pp. 503–4; BL, Sloane MS 3246; TNA, C218/1/34.

Title(s)

Titles held by the members of the Other House at the time of their nomination. Sources: G.E.C., Peerage; ODNB; Perfect Politician; Noble, Memoirs of the Protectoral-House.

Social Status

Social status of the membership at the outbreak of the Civil Wars. These categories are largely based upon the important studies of parliamentary membership in the 1640s and 1650s by Jones, Underdown and Woolrych.

GG = Aristocracy or greater gentry

CG = Country gentry

LG = Lesser gentry

MG = Merchant gentry

BG = Below gentry

? = Unknown

Sources: Jones, ‘Composition and Activity of the Protectorate Parliaments’; ODNB; Underdown, Pride's Purge, pp. 361–98; Woolrych, Commonwealth to Protectorate, pp. 403–33.

Age

The age of each member at the time of their summons to the Other House in 1657.

Sources: G.E.C., Peerage; ODNB.

Attendance

Indicates whether the members attended the Other House at any point during the second session of the second Protectorate Parliament (1658) and the third Protectorate Parliament (1659).

‘P’ = Present.

‘X’ = Dead or Removed.

Sources: HMC Lords, pp. 503–67; Mus. of Lon., Tangye MS 11a, fols 1–61.

Politics

‘C’ = Civilian Cromwellian

‘C?’ = Probable Civilian / Conservative

‘M’ = Military Cromwellian

‘M?’ = Probable Military

‘R’ = Republican

‘?’ = Unknown

A ‘(k)’ has been added to the names of those identified as voting for kingship in A Narrative of the late Parliament (so called), pp. 22–3. The method of classification is discussed in more detail in Chapter 3.

Officers

Rank of members who were serving officers in 1657–59 and the number of regiments they commanded.

Sources: Firth & Davies, The Regimental History of Cromwell's Army. Previous Parliaments \

Those old peers who had sat in the House of Lords prior to its dissolution are listed as members of the Long Parliament.

‘LP’ = MP in Long Parliament

‘RP’ = MP in Rump Parliament

‘BP’ = Member of Barebone's Parliament

‘1PP’ = MP in First Protectorate Parliament

‘2PP’ = MP in Second Protectorate Parliament.