Buckingham MP

Buckingham, MP

I was personally rather surprise that one of the first job Henry Carey was as a MP of the borough of Buckingham. It seemed to me it was such a young age, considering that he was 21. Then again this is the 16th century were the parliament was a considerably different institution than it is now. For those who are not familiar back in the day election were essentially decided by who was land owner and even there it was only land owner who  own at least 40 shilling worth of rent. A situation, Henry found himself  due to his inheritance, although it was much more spread out than simply out buckhimghamshire.

Unspiringly however the website on the history of parliment was probably one of the most informative thing I've ever found onto our research subject, heck  it gives more about his life than most website.

Buckingham was a place of little importance at the time (its tax payer list were about 111 people a mere twenty years before Carey first time as MP, just to show you how small the electorate was).

Henry was part of the first parliment of Edward VI constitued in august of that year, but only gathered in November, luckily enough it is covered in the journal of the house of commons, though I have yet to find any particular reference to Henry Carey in the journal. When Mary tudor took over, he was actually changed from his position, but would later rejoin sometime later. Henry will actually have more than one job during this time and actually seem to be somewhat more active during his second mandate as MP several years later)

(apparently the national archive have archives on royal ward, but they are out of reach for me, I'M particulary curious about the bit about Carey being fine for marrying without royal consent, something I haven't quite heard of yet or seen anywhere else, probably because no one check that source out for that before hand, it does make me wonder about the circumstance of his marriage with Anne Morgan considering he was under royal authority at the time, maybe it wasn't arrange, but at the same time its rather speculative of my part)