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Jnestorius (talk | contribs) →Prior to 1918: As well as the parish, the borough included an extra-parochial area called the "Minster Precincts" comprising the cathedral close. he borough franchise was scot and lot in the parish and householder in the Minster Precincts. |
Jnestorius (talk | contribs) →Prior to 1918: add link to map in 1832 report ref // "comprised the Minster Precincts and the south-eastern part of the surrounding parish of Saint John the Baptist, excluding the parish's northern and western townships" |
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The earliest known members representing [[Peterborough]] were in 1547, shortly after it had gained [[city status in the United Kingdom|city status]], when [[Peterborough Cathedral]] became the seat of the new [[Anglican Diocese of Peterborough|diocese of Peterborough]] in 1541. The cathedral had been Peterborough Abbey until the [[dissolution of the monasteries]] abolished it in 1539. The new city was not an [[ancient borough]], nor a [[municipal borough]] until 1876; no charter survives granting the status of city or the right to Parliamentary representation or delimiting its boundary for electoral purposes.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Peterborough |via=History of Parliament Online |title=the House of Commons 1509-1558 |chapter-url=http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/peterborough |editor-first=S.T. |editor-last=Bindoff |first= N. M. |last=Fuidge |orig-year=1982 |publisher=Boydell and Brewer }}</ref><ref name="comms1832"/>
The centre of the city was was an [[extra-parochial area]] called the "Minster Precincts" comprising the [[cathedral close]].<ref name="comms1832"/> The commissioners appointed prior to the parallel [[Great Reform Act]] and [[Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832|Parliamentary Boundaries Act]] of 1832 reported that Peterborough's parliamentary boundary, as far as was then known,
The 1832 acts extended the parliamentary borough of Peterborough to the entire parish of Saint John the Baptist (adding 48 qualifying properties<ref name="comms1832"/>) and retained its two members.<ref name="comms1832"/> (The rural portion of the Soke was included in the [[North Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Northern division of Northamptonshire]].) Under the [[Boundary Act 1868]], the area of [[New Fletton]] and [[Woodston, Peterborough|Woodstone]] (south of the River Nene) was transferred from Huntingdonshire.<ref>{{multiref|
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