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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 Grand Remonstrance was a list of grievances presented to King Charles I of England by the English Parliament on 1 December 1641, but passed by the House of Commons on 22 November 1641, during the Long Parliament. [1] It was one of the chief events which was to precipitate the English Civil War. [2]
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 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 ...
1), [1] also known as the Dissolution Act, was an Act passed on 15 February 1641, [2] [3] by the English Long Parliament, during the reign of King Charles I. The act required that Parliament meet for at least a fifty-day session once every three years. It was intended to prevent kings from ruling without Parliament, as Charles had done between ...
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
Historians like Tim Harris argue that, with the exception of a few extremists, by 1640 there was general consensus attempts to rule without Parliament had gone too far. This changed after the Grand Remonstrance in November 1641, when constitutional monarchists like Clarendon switched sides, arguing Parliament now wanted too much. [15]