 The "Victoria County History of the County of Lincoln" includes some information about the representation of Stamford in early times.Stamford, on the other hand, which had sent Nicholas de Burton and Clement de Melton to the Parliament of 1295, only exercised what its burghers probably regarded as an onerous privilege once in the reign of Edward II when in 1322 it elected Eustace Malherbe and Hugh de Thurleby.A further paragraph relates the position before and after the borough began to send representatives regularly in 1467.