Barebone's Parliament Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
...'s Parliament ( Parliament of the Saints, July-December 1653 ) Last Parliament of the English Commonwealth . Successor to the Rump Parliament , it was named after a prominent member, ‘Praise-God Barebone’. Members were selected by Cromwell and the Puritan army leaders. Religious disputes ruined its effectiveness. It voted its own dissolution and made Cromwell Lord...
Barebone's Parliament Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
...'s Parliament When Cromwell expelled the Rump on 20 April 1653 , he had no plans for an alternative government. After deliberation, he decided to vest the supreme authority in a nominated assembly. He and his officers chose 144 members to represent all the English counties, and also Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The assembly met on 4 July and soon voted to call itself a Parliament; it gets its familiar sobriquet from Praise‐God Barebone, leather‐seller, lay preacher, and MP for London. Barebone was not a typical member, however, for most of the House...
Barebone’s Parliament Reference library
Austin Woolrych
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
...’s Parliament . When Cromwell expelled the Rump on 20 April 1653 , he had no plans for an alternative government and no authority to call elections to a new Parliament. After deliberation, he and his council of officers decided to vest the supreme authority in a nominated assembly, initially for sixteen months. Together they chose 144 members to represent all the English counties, and also Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The assembly met on 4 July and soon voted to call itself a Parliament; it gets its familiar sobriquet from Praise-God Barebone,...
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Barebones Parliament Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
... Parliament The assembly summoned by Oliver Cromwell in July 1653 , after he had dissolved the Rump Parliament . It consisted of 140 members chosen partly by the army leaders and partly by congregations of ‘godly men’. Known initially as the Parliament of Saints, it was later nicknamed after ‘Praise-God’ Barbon, or Barebones ( c .1596–1679), one of its excessively pious leaders. Its attacks on the Court of Chancery and on the Church of England alarmed both Cromwell and its more moderate members. The dissolution of this Parliament was followed by...
Protectorate (1653–59) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
... ( 1653–59 ) In 1653 , Barebone's Parliament passed the Instrument of Government that established Oliver Cromwell as lord protector. Cromwell established a state council of 11 major generals. The Humble Petition and Advice ( 1657 ) restored some power to Parliament. The Protectorate heavily depended on Oliver Cromwell's personal prestige and after his death ( 1658 ), his son, Richard , was lord protector for less than a year before the Restoration of Charles II...
Fifth Monarchy men Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History
...taken from the Book of Daniel, which foretold the rise and fall of four successive monarchies, to be followed by a fifth monarchy which would last for ever. This fifth monarchy was identified as the rule of Jesus Christ and his saints. The group was influential in the Barebones Parliament of 1653 . After the Restoration they attempted a rising in London, in January 1661 , which failed. They quickly declined as a creditable movement...
Fifth-Monarchy Men Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...extreme Puritan sect in England in the mid-17th century. They believed that the rule of Jesus Christ and his saints was imminent, and that it would be the fifth monarchy to rule the world, succeeding those of Assyria, Persia, Greece, and Rome. They hoped that, through the Barebones Parliament , the rule of the saints would become a reality, but Cromwell’s establishment of the Protectorate turned them against him. Their agitation became a nuisance, their leaders were arrested, and their abortive rebellions in 1657 and 1661 were...
Cromwell, Henry (1628–74) Reference library
Austin Woolrych
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
...Henry ( 1628–74 ) . Oliver ’s fourth son. Captain of horse at 19, he rose to command his own cavalry regiment in his father’s expeditionary force to Ireland in 1650 . He stayed on there, returning to sit for Ireland in Barebone’s Parliament . On becoming protector, Oliver sent him back there to investigate the loyalty of the army, whose commander he became. Charles Fleetwood, the lord deputy, returned home, and Henry inherited his authority, though not until 1657 his title. His rule was bedevilled by constant friction with a well-entrenched...
Instrument of Government Reference library
Austin Woolrych
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
...of Government . The written constitution under which Oliver Cromwell became lord protector on 16 December 1653 . Its author was Major-General Lambert , who had never approved of Barebone’s Parliament and helped to engineer its abdication on 12 December. Like the army’s earlier Heads of the Proposals , which he had helped to draft, the Instrument was a prescription for limited monarchy, and it originally named Cromwell as king. Cromwell declined the crown, but eventually accepted authority as protector under the instrument’s terms. These were...
Fifth Monarchy men Quick reference
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...was taken from the book of Daniel, which foretold the rise and fall of four successive monarchies, to be followed by a fifth monarchy which would last for ever. This fifth monarchy was identified as the rule of Jesus Christ and his saints. The group was influential in the Barebones Parliament of 1653 . After the Restoration they attempted a rising in London, in January 1661 , which failed. They quickly declined as a creditable movement thereafter. See Bernard Capp , The Fifth Monarchy Men: A Study in Seventeenth‐Century Millenarianism ...
Parliament Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... (Anglo-Latin parliamentum , from Old French parlement , from parler , ‘to speak’) The application of the word to assemblies of the king and his magnates became common in 13th-century England, and a representative element was introduced at these meetings. It became an established institution during the 14th century. A number of Parliaments have been given characteristic names for various reasons, including the parliament of dunces . See also those that were addled ; barebones ; black ; cavalier ; club ; convention ; devil’s ; drunken ; ...
Commonwealth Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...Furthermore, the Navigation Acts sparked off the much-resented Anglo-Dutch War of 1652–54 . Cromwell expelled the Rump in April 1653 . He hoped to reach a political and religious settlement through the Barebones Parliament (July–December 1653), but in December he accepted the necessity of taking the headship of state himself. The period of Cromwellian rule is usually known as the Protectorate...
