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5 July – Parliament abolishes the Court of High Commission, Star Chamber and the Council of the North. [1] 30 July – Parliament declares that any adult male not signing the Protestation of 1641, passed on 3 May, is unfit to hold public office. [1] 5 August – London theatres closed because of bubonic plague. [4]
The Protestation of 1641 was an attempt to avert the English Civil War. Parliament passed a bill on 3 May 1641 requiring those over the age of 18 to sign the Protestation, an oath of allegiance to King Charles I and the Church of England, as a way to reduce the tensions across the realm. Signing them was a necessity in order to hold public office.
The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. ... British Civil Wars: 1641 Time Line; British Civil Wars: 1642 Time Line;
The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War.
The first session of the 5th Parliament of King Charles I (the 'Long Parliament') which met from 3 November 1640 until 21 August 1642. Note that this session was traditionally cited as 16 Car. 1 , 16 Chas. 1 or 16 C. 1 ; it is listed in the "Chronological Table of the Statutes" as 16 Cha. 1
George Goring (right) with Mountjoy Blount (left), to whom he revealed details of the First Army Plot. The so-called "first army plot" unfolded between March and May 1641. Despite defeat in the Bishops' Wars, the recall of Parliament in November 1640 and its prosecution of William Laud and Strafford, as ever Charles sought to regain any ground lost to his oppone
The relationship between the House of Commons and Charles I of England had become increasingly fraught during 1641. The king believed that Puritans, encouraged by five vociferous Members of the House of Commons – John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Arthur Haselrig and William Strode, together with the peer Edward Montagu, Viscount Mandeville (the future Earl of Manchester) – had ...
For acts passed from 1801 onwards, see the list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament from 1999 , the list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly , and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru ; see also ...