| Dunstable | Odiham | Langport |
| Newberry | Overton | Montacute |
| Ely | Bromyard | Stoke Curcy |
| Wisbeach | Ledbury | Watchet |
| Polurun | Ross | Were |
| Egremont | Berkhemstead | Farnham |
| Bradnesham | Stoteford | Kingston upon Thames |
| Crediton | Greenwich | Bradford |
| Exmouth | Tunbridge | Mere |
| Tremington | Manchester | Highworth |
| Liddeford | Melton Mowbray | Bromsgrove |
| Modbury | Spalding | Dudley |
| Southmolton | Waynfleet | Kidderminster |
| Teignmouth | Bamberg | Pershore |
| Torrington | Corbrigg | Doncaster |
| Blandford | Burford | Jervale |
| Winborn | Chipping Norton | Pickering |
| Sherborn | Doddington | Ravenser |
| Milton | Whitney | Tykhull |
| Chelmsford | Oxbridge | Hallifax |
| Bere Regis | Chard | Whitby |
| Alresford | Dunster | and |
| Alton | Glastonbury | Leeds |
| Basingstoke | ||
| Fareham |
The three last named places were summoned during the Commonwealth—also Manchester;—when discontinued, not known. Greenwich was summoned 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary; discontinued 6th of Philip and Mary. The other places were principally summoned and discontinued during the reigns of Edward the First, Second, and Third. Calais, in France, was summoned the 27th of Henry the Eighth; discontinued 3rd of Philip and Mary.
In the reign of Edward the Third, an act of Parliament, made in the reign of William the Conqueror, was pleaded in the case of the Abbey of St. Edmundsbury, and judicially allowed by the court. Hence it appears (says a writer on this subject) that parliaments, or general councils, are coeval with the kingdom itself.
The first triennial parliament was in the year 1561; the first septennial one, in the year 1716.
Henry the Eighth increased the representatives in parliament 38; Edward the Sixth, 44; Mary, 25; Elizabeth, 62; and James the First, 27.
P.T.W.
ANCIENT BOROUGH OF LYDFORD.
(For the Mirror.)
Lydford is a poor, decayed village, consisting of ragged cottages, situated about seven miles from the north of Tavistock, Devonshire. It was (says Britton) formerly a place of consequence; and Prince states, that this ancient town and borough was the largest parish in the county, or the kingdom, and that the whole forest of Dart belonged to it; to whose parson, or rector, all the tithes thereof are due. It is said that this town, in its best strength, was able to entertain Julius Cæsar, at his second arrival here in Britain; but, anno 997 it was grievously spoilt by the inhuman Danes. Recovering again, it had, in the days of the Conqueror, 122 burgesses. This is still the principal town of the Stannaries, wherein the court is held relating to those causes. There is an ancient castle, in which the courts are held; and offenders against the stannary laws were here confined, in a dreary and dismal dungeon, which gave rise to a proverb—”Lydford laws punish a criminal first, and try him afterwards.”