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    The English Convention was an assembly of the Parliament of England which met between 22 January and 12 February 1689 (1688 old style, so its legislation...
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    The 1689 Convention of Estates sat between 16 March 1689 and 5 June 1689 to determine the settlement of the Scottish throne, following the deposition of...
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    the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William III and Mary II in February 1689, inviting them to become joint sovereigns...
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  • legally summoned parliament could ever be assembled unless a Convention Parliament met to settle the issue of government. Between 1660 and 1689 the meaning...
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  • 1689 Convention Parliament (1399), for the English Convention Parliament of 1399 Convention Parliament (1660), for the English Convention Parliament of...
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    is an Act passed by the Convention of the Estates, a sister body to the Parliament of Scotland (or Three Estates), in April 1689. It is one of the key documents...
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    The 1689 English general election, held in January 1689, elected the Convention Parliament, which was summoned in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution...
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  • Conventions of Estates) Commissioner (Scottish Parliament) Convention of Estates of Scotland (1689) Claim of Right Act 1689 Three Estates of Scotland Colin Kidd...
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    Toleration Act 1689, was an Act of the Parliament of England. Passed in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, it received royal assent on 24 May 1689. The Act...
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    February, the Parliament of England made William and Mary joint monarchs of England. In March 1689, elections were held for a Scottish Convention to agree...
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    power in Scotland. On 11 May 1689, William and Mary accepted the Scottish throne and the Convention became a full Parliament on 5 June. Dundee's rising...
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    The Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689 (2 Will. & Mar. c. 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England, passed in April 1690 but backdated to the...
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  • John Maitland, 5th Earl of Lauderdale (category Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1689)
    March 1685 to 1686 and was on the Convention in 1689, all as Sir John Lauder of Haltoun, and again in parliament from 1689 to 1693 as Sir John Maitland of...
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    familiar with the 1689 document. Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689 Financial Revolution Toleration Act 1689 This resulted in the 1688/1689 Coronation...
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    was passed. The first session of the Convention Parliament, which met from 13 February 1689 until 21 October 1689. Cited in Ruffhead's Statutes at Large...
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    1689 (MDCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1689th...
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    acts of the Parliament of England for the year 1689. For acts passed during the period 1707–1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain...
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  • Robert Walpole (colonel) (category English MPs 1689–1690)
    politician and militia officer who served as a member of parliament for the borough of Castle Rising from 1689 to 1700. He is best known for being the father of...
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    1687. p. 1. London Gazette, no. 2386 (27 Sept.-1 Oct 1688) George L. Cherry, The Convention Parliament, 1689: a biographical study of its members (1966)...
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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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  • Sir Charles Erskine, 1st Baronet of Alva (category Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1689–1702)
    Scottish politician who sat in the Scottish Conventions in 1665 and 1667 and in the Parliament of Scotland from 1689 to 1690. He was born in Alva House which...
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    After the Glorious Revolution, the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Claim of Right Act 1689 cemented Parliament's position as the supreme law-making body, and said...
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    John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (category English MPs 1689–1690)
    opposition, the bill which declared all the laws passed by the Convention Parliament (1689) to be valid. As Solicitor-General he had to conduct the prosecution...
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  • James Brodie (politician, born 1637) (category Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1689)
    represented Elgin and Forfarshire in the 1689 Convention of the Estates of Scotland and Elginshire in the parliaments of 1689 to 1702 and 1703 to 1707 (sitting...
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  • being considered to emanate from Parliament and not just the King. The Bill of Rights 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 were passed the following year which...
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    Rump Parliament was the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride had commanded his soldiers, on 6 December 1648, to purge the Long Parliament of members...
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    Blues, and exempted the Commission of Inspection by the Convention Parliament (1689) of April 1689. The Secretary at War, William Blathwayt, wrote asking...
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    This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the Convention Parliament of 1689 which transferred the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland...
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    Parliament. Retrieved 23 September 2019. Cherry, George. The Convention Parliament, 1689: A Biographical Study of Its Members. p. 97. "HOLMES, Henry (d...
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    modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great...
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