List of Speakers of the House of Commons of England
Speakers of the House of Commons of England from 1377 to 1707
Source: Laundy The Office of Speaker For Speakers of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801, see List of Speakers of the British House of Commons.

List of Speakers of the House of Commons of England

Section Title: Speakers of the House of Commons of England from 1377 to 1707
Table Section Text: Source: Laundy The Office of Speaker For Speakers of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801, see List of Speakers of the British House of Commons.

From	Until	Speaker	Constituency	Notes

1588	1589	Sir Thomas Snagge	(Bedford)

1592	1593	Sir Edward Coke	(Norfolk)	Solicitor-General for England and Wales

1597	1598	Sir Christopher Yelverton	(Northamptonshire)

1601	Sir John Croke	(City of London)

1603	1611	Sir Edward Phelips	(Somerset)

1614	Sir Randolph Crewe	(Saltash)

1621	1622	Sir Thomas Richardson	(St Albans)

1623	1625	Sir Thomas Crewe	(Aylesbury)

1625	1626	Sir Heneage Finch	(City of London)

1628	1629	Sir John Finch	(Canterbury)	(Impeached by the Long Parliament, October 1640, and fled to Holland, but returned at the Restoration)

1640	Sir John Glanville	(Bristol)

1640	1647	William Lenthall	(Woodstock)

1644	1645	Sir Sampson Eure	(Leominster)	Speaker in the Oxford Parliament (1644)

1647	Henry Pelham	(Grantham)	(temporary during Lenthall's abandonment of the Speakership)

1647	1653	William Lenthall	(Woodstock)	(Lenthall was restored to the Chair by the Army and remained in office until Cromwell's dismissal of the Rump)

1653	Rev. Francis Rous	(Devon)

1654	1655	William Lenthall	(Oxfordshire)

1656	1658	Sir Thomas Widdrington	(Northumberland)

1657	1657	Bulstrode Whitelocke	(Buckinghamshire)	(temporary during Widdrington illness)

1658	1659	Chaloner Chute	(Middlesex)

1659	Sir Lislebone Long	(Wells)	(temporary during Chute's illness, but was himself taken ill after only five days in office}

1659	Thomas Bampfylde	(Exeter)

1659	1660	William Lenthall	(Oxfordshire)

1660	William Say	(Camelford)	(temporary during Lenthall illness)

1660	Sir Harbottle Grimston	(Colchester)

1661	1671	Sir Edward Turnour	(Hertford)

1672	Sir Job Charlton	(Ludlow)

1673	Sir Edward Seymour	(Totnes)

1678	Sir Robert Sawyer	(Wycombe)	((Temporary during Seymour's illness)

1678	1679	Sir Edward Seymour	(Totnes)

1679	Sir William Gregory	(Weobley)

1680	1681	Sir William Williams	(Chester)

1685	1687	Sir John Trevor	(Denbigh)

1688	1689	Henry Powle	(Windsor)

1689	1695	Sir John Trevor	(Yarmouth, IoW)	(expelled for corruption)

1695	1698	Paul Foley	(Hereford)

1698	1700	Sir Thomas Littleton	(Woodstock)

1701	1705	Robert Harley	(New Radnor)

1705	1707	John Smith	(Andover)

Sentence(s)

Heneage Finch was Speaker of the English House of Commons in 1626.
Heneage Finch was Speaker of the English House of Commons in 1626.
Heneage Finch was Speaker of the English House of Commons in 1626.

final_sentence: Heneage Finch was Speaker of the English House of Commons in 1626.
final_sentence: Heneage Finch was Speaker of the English House of Commons in 1626.
final_sentence: Heneage Finch was Speaker of the English House of Commons in 1626.