A Comprehensive History of Norwich

by A. D. Bayne

The following is a list of the burgesses who served in parliament for this city, according to the earliest accounts. The figures set before the names denote the year of each king or queen’s reign.

EdwardI. 1272.
26.	Adam de Toftes	John le Graunt
27.	Robert de Holveston	Roger de Tudenham
28.	Robert de Holveston	Roger de Tudenham
30.	Roger de Tudenham	Robert de Weston
31.	John le Graunt	John de Morle
32.	John le Graunt	John de Morle
33.	Jeff. de Norwich	Ralph de Burewode
34.	William de Wichingham	Henry Gare
EdwardII. 1307.
1.	John de Morle	John Sparrowe
1.	Tho. Butt	Thomas de Hakeford
2.	John de Morle	John Benediscite
4.	John de Morle	John Sparowe
5.	John de Morle	John Sparowe
6.	John de Corpesty	Thomas Butt
6.	William de Wichingham	John de Ellingham
7.	William de Wichingham	John de Ellingham
8.	Roger de St. Austin	John de la Salle
8.	John Sparrowe	Roger Fitz Hugh
12.	John de Morle	Peter de Scothow
15.	John Flynt	Thomas de Byntree
16.	John de Morle, jun.	Robert de Hakeford
19.	Wm. de Strumpsawe	William de Wichingham
20.	William Bateman	William Butt

In the next reign the members for the city were paid £7 6s. 8d. for their attendance in parliament.

EdwardIII. 1327.
1.	John de Morle	Thos. Butt
2.	Thos. Butt	Reginald de Gurmuncestre
2.	Richard Arundel	John de Morle
4.	Thos. Butt	John Ymme
4.	Thos. Butt	William de Horsford
5.	Thos. Butt	John de Snyterton
6.	Thos. Butt	Peter de Hakeford
7.	Thos. Butt	Peter de Hakeford
8.	John de Morle	Peter de Hakeford
8.	Thos. Butt	Peter de Hakeford
9.	John de Berney	Peter de Hakeford
9.	William Butt	Thomas Butt
11.	Thomas de la Rokele	John le Grey
12.	Robert Bendish	William de Wichingham
12.	Thomas de la Rokele	Edmund Cosyn
14.	Robert de Wyleby	John Fitz John
15.	Richard de Bytering	Robert de Bumpstede
17.	John Ymme	Peter de Hakeford
17.	John Ymme	John de Morle
20.	Robert de Poleye	John de Plumstede
21.	Edmund Cosyn	John de Hakeford
22.	Robert de Poleye	Peter de Hakeford
24.	Richard de Bytering	Robert de Bumpstede
26.	Roger Hardegray
27.	Richard de Bytering	Robert de Bumpstede
28.	Robert de Bumpstede	Edmund Sturmere
29.	Roger Hardegray	Robert de Bumpstede
31.	Roger Hardegray	William Sky
33.	John de Morle	John le Grant
34.	Roger Hardegray	Richard de Bytering
36.	Robert de Bumpstede	Walter de Bixton
42.	John de Knateshall	William de Blickling
45.	John Latymer
46.	Richard Fishe	Jeffery Seawale
47.	John de Stoke	William Gerrard
49.	Bartho. de Appelyard	William de Blickling
50.	Robert Popingeay	Thomas Spynk.

Many of the foregoing list are evidently Norman names. The members, returned almost every year and paid for their services, had little to do except to vote supplies to the reigning sovereign.

Richard II. 1377.

1.	William de Bixton	Peter de Alderford
2.	Walter de Bixton	Henry Lomynour
3.	Walter de Bixton	Thomas Spynk
4.	John Latymer	Robert de Bernham
5.	John de Well	Walter de Bixton
5.	John de Well	William Gerrard
6.	William Blickling	Walter de Bixton
7.	Walter de Bixton	William Appleyard, jun.
7.	William Gerrard	John Parlet
8.	William Appleyard	Thomas Gerrard
9.	Clement Hereward	William Appleyard
10.	Walter Niche	Walter de Bixton
10.	Walter de Bixton	Thomas Spynk
11.	William Appleyard	Walter de Bixton
12.	Walter de Bixton	John de Multon
13.	Henry Lomynour	Walter de Bixton
14.	Walter de Bixton	William Everard
14.	William Appleyard	Thomas Gerrard
15.	Walter de Bixton	Thomas Gerrard
16.	William Everard	John de Multon
17.	Henry Lomynour	William Everard
18.	William Appleyard	Henry Lomynour
19.	William Appleyard	Thomas Gerrard
20.	William Appleyard	Henry Lomynour
21.	Walter de Bixton	Richard White
22.	Henry Lomynour	Roger de Blickling

Henry IV. 1399.

1.	Henry Lomynour	William de Blickling
2.	Edmund Warner	William de Crakeford
2.	Edmund Warner	Walter de Eton
3.	William Appleyard	William de Crakeford
5.	William Everard	Walter de Eton
7.	Walter de Eton	Robert Dunston
10.	Robert Dunston	William Ampulford
13.	Thomas Gerrard	Bartholomew Appleyard
14.	Bartholomew Appleyard	John Alderford
14.	William Sedeman	John Biskelee

Henry V. 1413.