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    even regarded as a parliament by its contemporaries. However, for its failure it has been known to posterity as the Addled Parliament. James had struggled...
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    The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for...
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    Barebone's Parliament, also known as the Little Parliament, the Nominated Assembly and the Parliament of Saints, came into being on 4 July 1653, and was...
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    The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great...
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  • Thumbnail for Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
    the Middle Temple. He served as Member of the Parliament of England for Dorset in the Addled Parliament of 1614 and was a Justice of the Peace for the...
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    The Rump Parliament was the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride commanded soldiers to purge the Long Parliament, on 6 December 1648, of those...
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    shorter Addled Parliament of 1614, Backhouse was nominated to another nine committees, but again remained a silent MP. After the Addled Parliament, Backhouse...
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    Member of Parliament for St Albans. After the disappointment of the 1614 Addled Parliament King James had attempted to rule without Parliament, but was...
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  • Thumbnail for Convention Parliament (1689)
    The English Convention was an assembly of the Parliament of England which met between 22 January and 12 February 1689 (1688 old style, so its legislation...
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    government by 1618. James had been attempting to rule without Parliament since the "Addled Parliament" of 1614, which he had dissolved after eight weeks when...
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    The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on 20 February 1640 and sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640...
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    The Convention Parliament of England (25 April 1660 – 29 December 1660) followed the Long Parliament that had finally voted for its own dissolution on...
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    The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term...
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  • Parliament of Great Britain in 1707. For later parliaments, see the List of parliaments of Great Britain. For the history of the English Parliament,...
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  • He later served as Member of the Parliament of England for Chester from 1610 to 1611 and again in the Addled Parliament of 1614. He became a senior official...
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    The Oxford Parliament, also known as the Mongrel Parliament, was the Parliament assembled by Charles I of England for the first time on 22 January 1644...
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    honey out of gall". The same pattern was repeated with the so-called "Addled Parliament" of 1614, which James dissolved after a mere nine weeks when the Commons...
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    Newcastle-under-Lyme in the Addled Parliament in 1614. Sir Richard Leveson (1598–1661), MP for Newcastle in the Long Parliament, rebuilt Trentham Hall 1630-1638...
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    The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British...
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    for Drury. Donne sat as an MP again, this time for Taunton, in the Addled Parliament of 1614. Though he attracted five appointments within its business...
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  • Thumbnail for Second Protectorate Parliament
    The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker...
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    in 1616, dying before she can return. The Addled Parliament is assembled in England as the second parliament of King James I, and the first in more than...
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  • Thumbnail for St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)
    The constituency has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Derek Thomas, a Conservative MP. The area's voters produced...
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  • Thumbnail for 3rd Parliament of Charles I
    The 3rd Parliament of King Charles I was summoned by King Charles I of England on 31 January 1628 and first assembled on 17 March 1628. The elected Speaker...
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    The Useless Parliament was the first Parliament of England of the reign of King Charles I, sitting only from June until August 1625. It gained its name...
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  • Thumbnail for Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
    entered the English Parliament in 1614 as Yorkshire's representative in the "Addled Parliament", but it was not until the parliament of 1621, in which he...
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  • Thumbnail for Habeas Corpus Parliament
    The Habeas Corpus Parliament, also known as the First Exclusion Parliament, was a short-lived English Parliament which assembled on 6 March 1679 (or 1678...
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  • Thumbnail for 4th Parliament of King James I
    The 4th Parliament of King James I was the fourth and last Parliament of England of the reign of James I of England, summoned on 30 December 1623, sitting...
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    Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (category Members of Parliament for Maldon)
    Spanish. He sat as a Member of Parliament for Maldon for 1604 to 1611 and for Essex in the short-lived Addled Parliament of 1614. Warwick's Puritan connections...
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    was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham in 1604. He was elected MP for Lincolnshire in 1614 for the Addled Parliament and in 1621. In 1624 he...
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