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1645 2nd "Rump (1)" 1648 ... The Rump Parliament was the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride had commanded his soldiers, on 6 December 1648, ...
Their seats were left vacant for several years and were filled by new elections after around 1645, so that new MPs supplemented those that had survived since 1640. In December 1648, the army imposed its will on parliament and large numbers of MPs were excluded under Pride's Purge, creating the Rump Parliament. Many who were not officially ...
5 April 1645 Ordinance for an oath to be tendered to those who come from the King's quarters into the protection of the Parliament. 11 April 1645 Ordinance to exempt the University of Cambridge from assessments, taxes and charges. 12 April 1645 Ordinance for paying the garrisons of Poole and Weymouth for six months out of the Excise.
Several MPs on both sides were killed in action, adding to the normal roll call of deaths through natural causes. By around 1645 replacements were being elected to replace the disabled members. In December 1648 the army imposed its will on parliament and large numbers of MPs were excluded under Pride's Purge, creating the Rump Parliament. Many ...
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) in the Rump Parliament which was the final stage of the Long Parliament which began in the reign of King Charles I and continued into the Commonwealth. In December 1648 the army imposed its will on parliament and large numbers of MPs were excluded under Pride's Purge , creating the Rump Parliament .
(a) Speakers of the Long Parliament (including times when it sat as the Rump Parliament): Lenthall 3 November 1640 – 26 July 1647; Pelham 30 July 1647 – 5 August 1647; Lenthall 6 August 1647 – 20 April 1653 (restored to the chair by the Army and sat until Oliver Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament) and 26 December 1653 – 13 January ...
The Rump Parliament became an Oligarchy after the execution of Charles I. A forty-person council of state , whose job was to carry out the directives of the Rump Parliament , was established. The Parliament took the name Custodes Libertatis Angliae (Custodians of English Liberty) for use in legal matters.
The republican theory also suggests that the Long Parliament would have been successful in these necessary reforms except through the forceful intervention of Oliver Cromwell (and others) in removing the loyalists party, the unlawful execution of King Charles I, later dissolving the Rump Parliament; and finally the forceful dissolution of the ...