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Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France. After Charles I's execution at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War, the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649.
It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of Charles II of England. Like its predecessor, the Convention Parliament , it was overwhelmingly Royalist and is also known as the Pensioner Parliament for the many pensions it granted to ...
In legal statutes, the Convention parliament is cited as 12 Cha. 2 (parliamentary session of the "12th regnal year of Charles II"). Among the acts passed by it were: Parliament Act 1660 (c.1) [3] An Act for putting in execution an Ordinance mentioned in this Act; An Act for the Continuance of Processe and Judiciall Proceedings
The second part of the first session of the 2nd Parliament of King Charles II (the 'Cavalier Parliament') which met from 20 November 1661 until 20 December 1661. This session was also traditionally cited as 13 Cha. 2. Stat. 2, 13 Cha. 2. stat. 2, 13 Cha. 2. St. 2, 13 Cha. 2. st. 2, 13 Car. 2. Stat. 2 (Chronological Table of the Statutes), 13 ...
The very first act of the 1690 parliament (2 Will. & Mar., c.1) [182] was to legitimise the Convention parliament as a lawfully-summoned parliament. Note: Queen Mary II died in December 1694, during the sixth session of the second parliament. Subsequent parliamentary sessions are labelled as "William III" alone (rather than "William & Mary ...
It was passed in December 1661, the year after the Restoration, by Charles II. The Cavalier Parliament aimed at restoring England to its state before the time of the Commonwealth. It required all the prudence of the Earl of Clarendon, the chancellor, to restrain them. The Corporation Act represents the limit to which he was prepared to go in ...
Charles II went to Scotland, after agreeing to the demands of the Scots Parliament and sat as king. Hostilities between England and Scotland recommenced. Cromwell and the army invaded Scotland to capture the young king. Charles II, after failing to hold Edinburgh or Stirling, was able to escape to the Continent.
The Convention Parliament was a parliament in English history which, owing to an abeyance of the Crown, assembled without formal summons by the Sovereign. [1] Sir William Blackstone applied the term to only two English Parliaments, those of 1660 and 1689, [2] but some sources have also applied the name to the parliament of 1399.