Nicholas Throckmorton (alias Carew) MP for Surrey. Throckmorton or Carew died in February 1644, and was buried in Beddington church. One of his great-grandsons was Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet, another Member of Parliament. Throckmorton married firstly by 1599, Mary More, daughter of Sir George More of Loseley Park, Surrey, and had five sons and three daughters. He married secondly by 1618, Susan Butler, née Bright, of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, widow of Henry Butler merchant of London and had a son and daughter. He was the brother of Arthur Throckmorton and of Elizabeth who married Sir Walter Raleigh. Nicholas Throckmorton (alias Carew) Sir
5th Parliament of Queen Elizabeth I 5th Parliament of Queen Elizabeth I The 5th Parliament of Queen Elizabeth I was summoned by Queen Elizabeth I of England on 12 October 1584 and assembled on 23 November 1584. The size of the House of Commons had by now increased further to 460 members, compared with only 402 in her first Parliament of 1558/9. Like the 4th Parliament of 1572, Elizabeth's 5th Parliament was called in response to a Catholic conspiracy aimed at putting Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots on to the English throne. The Throckmorton plot, as it came to be known, was a foiled conspiracy to