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Simon de Montfort's Parliament was an English parliament held from 20 January 1265 until mid-March of the same year, called by Simon de Montfort, a baronial rebel leader. Montfort had seized power in England following his victory over Henry III at the Battle of Lewes during the Second Barons' War , but his grip on the country was under threat.
For medieval statutes, etc. that are not considered to be acts of Parliament, see the list of English statutes. For statutes passed during the Commonwealth, see the list of ordinances and acts of the Parliament of England, 1642–1660 .
The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised the English monarch. Great councils were first called Parliaments during the reign of Henry III (r. 1216 ...
Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland. For acts passed up until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland .
10 December 1646 Ordinance to revive the Committee of the Lords and Commons for the Army. 14 December 1646 Ordinance to justify the proceedings of Parliament. 14 December 1646 Ordinance confirming the treaties of 29 November 1643, and 6 August 1642, between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.
An Act for amending and making more effectual an Act, passed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, [am] for embanking, draining, and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds, in the Parish of Ramsey, in the County of Huntingdon, and in the Parishes of Diddington, March, Benwick, Wimblington, and Chatteris, within the Isle ...
Law of the United Kingdom; ... This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, which was in existence from 1707 to 1800 (inclusive).
The traditional view put forward by A. V. Dicey is that parliament had the power to make any law except any law that bound its successors. Formally speaking however, the present state that is the UK is descended from the international Treaty of Union between England and Scotland in 1706/7 which led to the creation of the "Kingdom of Great Britain".