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The 1681 English general election returned members to the last parliament of Charles II. Dubbed the Oxford Parliament, the body elected sat for one week from 21 March 1681 until 28 March 1681. Party strengths are an approximation, with many MPs' allegiances being unknown. The English Parliament after the 1681 General Election
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.
In 1673 the Cavalier Parliament compelled Charles to withdraw the declaration and implement, in its place, the first of the Test Acts (1673), which required anyone entering public service in England to deny the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and to take Anglican communion. [1] When Charles II's openly Catholic successor James II ...
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 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
Parliament has been formally prorogued by a king for the first time in more than 70 years, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II – the UK’s longest-reigning sovereign. ... Charles, who ...
Pages in category "Parliaments of Charles II of England" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Habeas Corpus Parliament; O. Oxford ...