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  Rump Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Long Parliament was recreated from the Rump on 21 February 1660 when General George Monck reinstated the members 'secluded' by Pride.
The Speaker throughout the Rump Parliament's existence was the Speaker of the Long Parliament, William Lenthall.
As lawyers were overrepresented in the Rump Parliament, the Rump did not respond to the popular requests made by the Levellers to change the archaic and expensive legal system.
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 Long Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Parliament was also responsible for the impeachment and subsequent execution of the king's advisers, Archbishop William Laud and Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford.
In the wake of the ejections, the remnant, the Rump Parliament, arranged for the trial and execution of Charles I. It was also responsible for the setting up of the Commonwealth of England in 1649.
The Long Parliament was preceded by the Short Parliament, was purged by Pride to become the Rump Parliament was restored by Monck and succeded by the Convention Parliament.
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 Commonwealth of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Parliament had, to a large degree, encouraged the radical political groups which emerged when the usual social controls broke down during the English Civil War.
The Rump was the purged remnant of the original Long Parliament.
The Barebones Parliament was opposed by former Rumpers and ridiculed by many gentry as being as assembly of 'inferior' people.
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 Rump Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the 12 October the Rump voted to declare the seven commissioners responsibility for the Army void and appointed Charles Fleetwood commander-in-chief under the Speaker of the House.
Lambert and Fleetwood created a 23 member Committee of Safety to govern the country in place of the Rump with General Fleetwood and Lambet durctly under him, commander of the Army in England and Scotland.
Fearing anarchy, General George Monck, commander-in-chief of the English army in Scotland, declared that he was ready to uphold Parliament's authority and march at the head of his army to London.
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 rump parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This parliament ordered the execution of Charles I, abolished the monarchy and House of Lords, and formed the Commonwealth of England (1649).
The Rump was dissolved by Oliver Cromwell in 1653 when it failed to meet his expectations, and was replaced with the "Barebones Parliament".
The Rump was recalled by Cromwell's son, Richard, after he was appointed Lord Protector in 1658.
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 COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Rump was the purged remnant of the original Long_Parliament.
Cromwell forcibly dissolved the Rump in April 1653, for reasons that are unclear.
Theories are that he feared the Rump was trying to perpetuate itself as the government, or that the Rump was preparing for an election which could return an anti-Commonwealth majority.
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 BBC - Cult - Tamara - Weblogs
The Rump was a name given to Parliament at the time, and 'Roundheads' was the name given to the army he presided over during the English civil war (as opposed to the Cavaliers, who were the King's army).
Parliament resented the insincerity with which Charles settled with both them and the Scots, and despised his links with Catholicism.
In November 1648, the Long Parliament was reduced to a "Rump" Parliament by the forced removal of 110 members of Parliament by Cromwell's army, with another 160 members refusing to take their seats in opposition to the action.
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 Rump Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Rump was dissolved by Oliver Cromwell in 1653 when it failed to meet his expectations, and was replaced with the " Barebones Parliament ".
Canada's Parliament Provides information on Parliament, the House of Commons, the Senate, as well as on the programs, committees, bills and services to the public.
UK Parliament: Bills before Parliament Official directory of Bills from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, with links to full text, explanatory notes and amendments for each.
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 Encyclopedia: Rump Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Rump Parliament was recalled on 7 May 1659 by Richard Cromwell, the third son of Oliver Cromwell, after he was appointed Lord Protector and after the failure of the Third Protectorate Parliament earlier that year.
Members of the parliament demanded Richard Cromwell's resignation, which was readily obtained on May 25.
The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session from 27 January until 22 April 1659 with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfield as the Speakers of the House.
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Parliament was to supply revenue for a standing army of 30,000 soldiers, for a navy, and for other expenses of government.
Parliament was to decide the question of restoration of Royalist lands sold during the past 18 years.
Parliament agreed to execute ten of those who had taken part in the trial and execution of Charles I. Parliament ordered the bodies of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw be dug up, hung from gibbets, and later beheaded.
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 The Rump Parliament
The "Rump" Parliament was the name derisively given to the Long Parliament after Pride's Purge (December 1648).
The Rump did nothing to reduce legal fees or to provide easier access to the courts for ordinary people, although more lenient punishments for debtors were introduced and the use of English in legal proceedings was authorised.
Fleetwood was obliged to recall the Rump on 26 December 1659.
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 rump - definition by dict.die.net
Hist.), the remnant of the Long Parliament after the expulsion by Cromwell in 1648 of those who opposed his purposes.
It was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653, but twice revived for brief sessions, ending finally in 1659.
The Rump abolished the House of Lords, the army abolished the Rump, and by this army of saints Cromwell governed.
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 Rump Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Long Parliament was recreated from the Rump on 7 May 1659 when General George Monck reinstated the members 'secluded' by Pride.
After disagreements with the Army the Rump Parliament was physically prevented from assembling by the Army on 12 October.
He entered London after meeting little opposition and he allowed the Presbyterian members, 'secluded' in Pride's Purge of 1648, to re-enter parliament when the Rump Parliament reassembled on 24 December 1659 which recreated the Long Parliament.
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 Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
The Rump dismantled the machinery of government, most of that, remained loyal to the king, abolishing not only the monarchy, but also the Privy Council, Courts of Exchequer and Admiralty and even the House of Lords.
With the death of the ancient constitution and Parliament in control, attention was turned to crushing rebellions in the realm, as well as in Ireland and Scotland.
The Rump devolved into a petty, self-perpetuating and unbending oligarchy, which lost credibility in the eyes of the army.
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 Timeline - The Restoration - 1659-60
Richard forced by the Council of Officers to reinstate the Rump Parliament.
The Rump elects a new Council of State.
Parliament orders the arrest of all surviving regicides.
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 NU 2155 -- The Commonwealth and Restoration
The Rump Parliament itself had little support, not surprising when you remember that it represented only a small minority of the victorious party.
That the Rump should dissolve itself and call for new elections was the obvious solution for the impatient, but no one could agree on how a new Parliament should be elected.
All this, and a promise to consult Parliament in all these matters, were in a declaration Charles II issued from Breda in Holland in April of 1660.
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 Protectorate and Restoration
December 1659, the Navy mutinied and declared for the Rump.
The Rump meanwhile did little to broaden its support in the country as a whole, and when Monck approached London, it attempted his summary dismissal from command.
When Monck decided to negotiate with Charles II for the restoration of the Stuart dynasty, the Long Parliament dissolved itself (16 March 1660)and called elections for a new Parliament to decide on what terms Charles should resume the throne.
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 Question C3
Oliver Cromwell and the Rump Parliament faced many challenges in the years of the Republic, 1649-1660.
Cromwell purged parliament of all opposition to himself and Charles I was executed in January 1649.
When the Rump Parliament was not doing what Cromwell wanted them to do, he made a simple choice - dissolve Parliament.
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 Archives - Talking point | Houses of Parliament
By this stage the Long Parliament was popularly known as the Rump Parliament, a name it had acquired because early in December 1648 Colonel Thomas Pride and the New Model Army had purged parliament of the army’s enemies.
This rump of a parliament then proceeded to pass legislation that established a court to try King Charles I, an event that triggered a series of revolutionary events in the first weeks of 1649 that included the execution of the king and the abolition of both monarchy and the House of Lords.
For the next few years the British Isles were ruled by the Rump Parliament and its council of state, a republican regime that preferred to call itself the Commonwealth.
www.parliament.uk /parliamentary_publications_and_archives/parliamentary_archives/archives___discussion_point.cfm   (1024 words)

  
 Rump - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the corresponding part of an animal, as in rump steak, a cut of meat
In politics, a remnant of a larger political grouping that continues to exist after the group has formally dissolved or been abolished.
See, for example, Rump legislature, Rump Parliament and rump state.
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 Background for Milton's Regicide Tracts
Parliament is now resisting the idea of trying (and eventually executing) Charles, while the Army is pushing Parliament to do exactly that.
Parliament had pleaded "necessity" in asking Charles I to recognize its war upon him as justified; the army uses the same plea of "necessity" to justify its pressure upon Parliament (and its soon-to-come purging of "uncooperative" MPs).
The Parliament and the Army are the two primary forces temporarily united in opposition to Charles I. However, these two groups resist the king from widely disparate positions: the Parliament is primarily Presbyterian, while the Army is primarily Independent.
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 Commonwealth of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Commonwealth of England 1: The Rump Parliament 1649-53
However, they were also aware that the Rump might be all that stood in the way of an outright martial lawmilitary dictatorship/.
Commonwealth of England 2: The 'Barebones' Parliament, July-December 1653
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 Rump Parliament on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Protecting the rump: we continue our series of pen-portraits of less-well-known parliamentarians with a sketch of Richard Salwey, member of the Long Parliament and commissioner for the navy.
Oliver Cromwell and Parliaments: David L Smith explains why Cromwell so signally failed to establish harmony with his Parliaments.(The Unpredictable Past)
Change and continuity in 17th Century English Parliaments: David L. Smith provides an overview of parliamentary history during the `century of revolutions'.
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 Rump Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When it became obvious to the Grandees in the Army and Parliament that they could not negotiate a settlement with King Charles I and they could not trust him not to raise an Army attack them, they reluctantly came to the conclusion that they would have to kill him.
The Rump Parliament was recalled on 7 May 1659 by Cromwell's son, Richard, after he was appointed Lord Protector and after the failure of the Third Protectorate Parliament earlier that year.
However along with the Army it was unable to form a stable government and on 7 May 1659 General Monck reinstated the members secluded by Pride recreating the Long Parliament, so that it could prepare legislation for the Convention Parliament.
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 Chapter Parliament <i>to</i> Parrot of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
Thought the sovereign is a constituting branch of Parliament, the word is generally used to denote the three estates named above.
One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.
one of the trains which, by act of Parliament, railway companies are required to run for the conveyance of third-class passengers at a reduced rate.
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 Rump - Definition of Rump by Webster's Online Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
, the army abolished the Rump, and by this army of saints
rump - the part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks
rump - the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
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 Articles - Commonwealth of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Commonwealth was the republican government which ruled first England and then the whole of Britain, Ireland, the colonies and other Crown possessions during the periods from 1649 to 1653 and from 1659 to 1660.
After the beheading of the monarch Charles I on January 30 1649, its existence was initially declared ("An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth") by the Rump Parliament on 19 May that year.
The government during 1653 to 1659 is properly called The Protectorate, and took the form of direct personal rule by Oliver Cromwell and, after his death, his son Richard, as Lord Protector.
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