Talk:Somerset, Coleraine

Counties of Derry. Donegal and Tyrone

1. The name of the constituency is given in [https://archive.org/details/constitutionald05parlgoog/page/426/mode/2up?q=%22An+Ordinance+by+the+Protector+for+Elections+in+Ireland%22&view=theater the 1656 Ordinance which created it].
2. [https://archive.org/details/ulsterjournalofa2161ulst/page/n64/mode/1up?view=theater the Ulster Journal of Archaeology] says that Gorges represented the constituency.
3. However, [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=JJUNAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA502&hl=en_GB the Return of members of Parliament for 1654] says that John Clarke and Thomas Newburgh represented it, and [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=JJUNAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA506&hl=en_GB the Return of Members of Parliament for 1656] says that Tristram Beresford and Thomas Newburgh represented it. [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=JJUNAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA510&hl=en_GB The Return of members of Parliament for 1658] has no entry for it.

Alekksandr (talk) 20:52, 14 March 2024 (UTC)