7-603: List of parliaments of England List of acts of the Parliament of England The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on 20 February 1640 and sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640. It was so called because of its short session of only three weeks. After 11 years of personal rule between 1629 and 1640, and on the advice of the Earl of Strafford , Charles recalled Parliament to obtain money to finance his military struggle with Scotland in
14-638: The Bishops' Wars . However, like its predecessors , the new parliament had more interest in redressing grievances than in voting the King funds for his war against the Scottish Covenanters . John Pym , MP for Tavistock , quickly emerged as a major figure in debate; his long speech on 17 April expressed the refusal of the House of Commons to vote subsidies unless royal abuses were addressed. John Hampden , in contrast,
21-648: The King to call another parliament which he could not dissolve. This became known as the Long Parliament . List of parliaments of England This is a list of parliaments of England from the reign of King Henry III , when the Curia Regis developed into a body known as Parliament, until the creation of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1707. For later parliaments, see the List of parliaments of Great Britain . For
28-576: The deteriorating situation in Scotland, Charles dissolved Parliament on 5 May 1640, after only three weeks' sitting. This led to major discontent, particularly in London, and the following week a large armed mob attacked Lambeth Palace in the hope of capturing the unpopular Archbishop, William Laud , who was popularly blamed for the dissolution. In August 1640, a Scots Covenanter army invaded and occupied parts of northern England. The truce which followed compelled
35-537: The history of the English Parliament, see Parliament of England . The parliaments of England were traditionally referred to by the number counting forward from the start of the reign of a particular monarch, unless the parliament was notable enough to come to be known by a particular title, such as the Good Parliament or the Parliament of Merton . The Long Parliament , which commenced in this reign, had
42-449: The longest term and the most complex history of any English Parliament. The entry in the first table below relates to the whole Parliament. Although it rebelled against King Charles I and continued to exist long after the King's death, it was a Parliament he originally summoned. An attempt has been made to set out the different phases of the Parliament in the second table in this section and in subsequent sections. The phases are explained in
49-481: Was persuasive in private: he sat on nine committees. A flood of petitions concerning royal abuses were coming up to Parliament from the country. Charles's attempted offer to cease the levying of ship money did not impress the House. Annoyed with the resumption of debate on Crown privilege and the violation of parliamentary privilege by the arrest of the nine members in 1629, and unnerved about an upcoming scheduled debate on
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