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Long Parliament

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Long Parliament: see English civil war English civil war, 1642–48, the conflict between King Charles I of England and a large body of his subjects, generally called the "parliamentarians," that culminated in the defeat and execution of the king and the establishment of a republican commonwealth.
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Long Parliament

Session of the English Parliament summoned in November 1640 by Charles I, so named to distinguish it from the Short Parliament of April–May 1640. Charles called the session to raise the money needed for his war against the Scots. Resistant to Charles's demands, the Parliament caused the king's advisers to resign and passed an act forbidding its own dissolution without its members' consent. Tension between the king and Parliament increased until the English Civil War broke out in 1642. After the king's defeat (1646), the army, led by Thomas Pride, exercised political power and in 1648 expelled all but 60 members of the Long Parliament. The remaining group, called the Rump, brought Charles to trial and execution (1649); it was forcibly ejected in 1653. In 1659, after the end of Oliver Cromwell's protectorate, the Parliament was reestablished; those who were excluded in 1648 were restored to membership. The Parliament dissolved itself in 1660.

Long Parliament
sat from outbreak of Civil War to Charles II’s accession (1640–1660). [Br. Hist.: EB, VI: 319–320]
See : Longevity
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Dissolution of the Long Parliament by Oliver Cromwell given to the House of Commons, April 20, 1653: "It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Cromwell said it well in 1653; VIEWPOINTS by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
1653: Oliver Cromwell dissolved the Long Parliament which had governed during the Civil War.
On this day by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
The Private Journals of the Long Parliament 3 January to 5 March 1642, ed.
Puritanism and the closing of the theaters in 1642 by Bawcutt, N.W. / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
 
 
 
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