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    The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker...
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    Parliament. He was replaced by the English Committee of Safety, which dissolved the Third Protectorate Parliament, and reseated the Rump Parliament dismissed...
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    The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term...
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    The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers...
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    as the Protectorate. After Cromwell's death, and following a brief period of rule under his son, Richard Cromwell, the Protectorate Parliament was dissolved...
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    by the Rump Parliament and succeeded by the First Protectorate Parliament. Following the execution of King Charles, the Rump Parliament was the last...
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  • restored the Rump Parliament, to liquidate the Protectorate and re-establish the Commonwealth regime. This was phase 'f' of the Long Parliament, with the Rump...
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    appointed Lord Protector after his father's death. He called the Third Protectorate Parliament in 1659. Along with the Army, it was unable to form a stable government...
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    the unicameral First Protectorate Parliament that sat from September 1654 to January 1655 and the Second Protectorate Parliament that sat in two sessions...
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    William Lenthall (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Gloucester)
    on 4 September was once again confirmed as speaker. In the Second Protectorate Parliament, summoned by Cromwell on 17 September 1656, Lenthall was again...
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    agreed. It was followed by Barebone's Parliament and then the First, Second and Third Protectorate Parliaments. After Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded...
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    Desborough to provide financial backing for their work, which the second Protectorate parliament—instated in September 1656—voted down for fear of a permanent...
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  • the Palestine Liberation Organization The First Protectorate Parliament and Second Protectorate Parliament of the Kingdom of England, regulated by the Instrument...
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    Barebone's Parliament First Protectorate Parliament 1654–1655: Col. George Twisleton 1654–1655: William Foxwist Second Protectorate Parliament 1656–1658:...
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  • Carrickfergus and Belfast (constituency) (category Constituencies in the Parliament of England)
    Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. It was represented in the three Protectorate Parliaments...
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  • Thomas Kelsey (category Members of the Parliament of England for Dover)
    Major-Generals. Thomas Kelsey was returned for Dover during the Second Protectorate Parliament, when he supported John Desborough's move to establish the Major-Generals...
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    second and last codified constitution of England after the Instrument of Government. On 23 February 1657, during a sitting of the Second Protectorate...
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    Richard Cromwell (category Members of the pre-1707 Parliament of England for the University of Cambridge)
    First Protectorate Parliament as M.P. for Huntingdon and the Second Protectorate Parliament as M.P. for Cambridge University. Under the Protectorate's constitution...
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    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...
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    This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) in the First Protectorate Parliament under the Commonwealth of England which began at Westminster on 3 September...
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    The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British...
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  • Richard Blayney, 4th Baron Blayney (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Monaghan constituencies)
    Cromwell, and that year also took his seat in the Second Protectorate Parliament as the Member of Parliament for Cavan, Fermanagh and Monaghan. On 9 February...
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    convicted of blasphemy in a highly publicized trial before the Second Protectorate Parliament. He had his tongue bored through and his forehead branded B...
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  • of Parliament for Somerset in the First Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Somerset in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament. In...
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    was made second-in-command of Parliament's forces in Ireland, before breaking with Oliver Cromwell over the establishment of the Protectorate. After the...
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    The Convention Parliament of England (25 April 1660 – 29 December 1660) followed the Long Parliament that had finally voted for its own dissolution on...
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    The Parliament of 1614 was the second Parliament of England of the reign of James VI and I and sat between 5 April and 7 June 1614. Lasting only two months...
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    were in its hands. In Cromwell's speech at the opening of the Second Protectorate Parliament (17 September 1656), he informed them of Sexby's plot, terming...
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  • Rowland Dawkins (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales)
    office. He was re-elected MP for Carmarthenshire in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament. He commanded the Militia Troops in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire...
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  • Member of Parliament for Surrey in the First Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Surrey in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament and in...
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