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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Charles II summoned his parliament on 1 January 1661, which began to undo all that been forced on his father Charles I of Scotland. The Rescissory Act 1661 made all legislation back to 1633 'void and null'.
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 Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In September 1640, [1] King Charles I issued writs summoning a parliament to convene on 3 November 1640.
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 ...