List of Speakers of the House of Commons of England
List of Parlours or Prolocutors before 1377
Before 1377, the Speaker was referred to by terms such as the parlour and the prolocutor. Some of them presided, and Peter de Montfort and Peter de la Mare were certainly presiding officers of the Commons.

List of Speakers of the House of Commons of England

Section Title: List of Parlours or Prolocutors before 1377
Table Section Text: Before 1377, the Speaker was referred to by terms such as the parlour and the prolocutor. Some of them presided, and Peter de Montfort and Peter de la Mare were certainly presiding officers of the Commons.

Parliament	Presiding Officer	Constituency	Notes

First English Parliament, 11 June 1258	Peter de Montfort	first identified presiding officer of the English House of Commons, styled prolocutor

27th of Edward II, 7 January 1327	William Trussell	joint spokesman of Lords and Commons, styled procurator

10th of Edward III, 16 March 1332	Henry Beaumont	...

11th of Edward III, 9 September 1332	Geoffrey le Scrope	...

26th of Edward III, 29 March 1340	William Trussell	...

30th of Edward III, 28 April 1343	William Trussell	spokesman for the Commons alone

33rd of Edward III, 1347	William de Thorpe	...

34th of Edward III, 1348	William de Thorpe	...

36th of Edward III, 9 February 1351	William de Shareshull	...

55th of Edward III, 28 April 1376	Sir Peter de la Mare	Herefordshire	First term (second after 1377)

Sentence(s)

Sir Peter de la Mare was Speaker of the House of Commons during the Parliament of 1376.

final_sentence: Sir Peter de la Mare was Speaker of the House of Commons during the Parliament of 1376.