List of Parliaments of England: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is a list of Parliaments of England from the reign of Henry VII to 1707. For later parliaments, see the List of Parliaments of Great Britain.

Parliaments of Henry VII

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 07-11-1485 04-03-1486 Thomas Lovell 1
2 09-11-1487 18-12-1487 John Mordaunt 1
3 13-01-1489 27-02-1490 Thomas fitzWilliam 1
4 17-10-1491 05-03-1492 Richard Empson 1
5 14-10-1495 22-12-1495 Robert Drury 1
6 16-01-1497 13-03-1497 Thomas Englefield 1
7 25-01-1504 01-04-1504 Edmund Dudley 1
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Parliaments of Henry VIII

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions Colloquial name
1 21-01-1510 23-02-1510 Thomas Englefield 1
2 04-02-1512 04-03-1514 Robert Sheffield 4
3 05-02-1515 22-12-1515 Thomas Neville 2
4 15-04-1523 13-08-1523 Thomas More 3
5 03-11-1529 15-04-1536 Thomas Audley, Humphrey Wingfield, Richard Rich 9 Reformation Parliament
6 08-06-1536 18-07-1536 Richard Rich 1
7 28-04-1539 24-07-1540 Nicholas Hare 3
8 16-01-1542 28-03-1544 Thomas Moyle 3
9 23-11-1545 31-01-1547 Thomas Moyle 2
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Parliaments of Edward VI

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 04-11-1547 15-04-1552 John Baker 4
2 01-03-1553 31-03-1553 James Dyer 1
3 05-10-1553 05-12-1553 John Pollard 1
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Parliaments of Mary I

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 02-04-1554 05-05-1554 Robert Brooke 1
2 12-11-1554 16-01-1555 Clement Higham 1
3 21-10-1555 09-12-1555 John Pollard 1
4 20-01-1558 17-11-1558 William Cordell 2
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Parliaments of Elizabeth I

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 23-01-1559 08-05-1559 Thomas Gargrave 1
2 11-01-1563 02-01-1567 Thomas Williams 2
3 01-10-1566 01-10-1566 Richard Onslow 1
4 02-04-1571 29-05-1571 Christopher Wray 1
5 08-05-1572 19-04-1583 Robert Bell 2
6 18-01-1581 18-01-1581 John Popham 1
7 23-11-1584 14-09-1585 John Puckering 2
8 15-10-1586 23-03-1587 John Puckering 2
9 04-02-1589 29-03-1589 Thomas Snagge 1
10 19-02-1593 10-04-1593 Edward Coke 1
11 24-10-1597 09-02-1598 Christopher Yelverton 2
12 27-10-1601 19-12-1601 John Croke 1
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Parliaments of James I

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 19-03-1604 09-02-1611 Edward Phelips 5
2 05-04-1614 07-06-1614 Randolph Crewe 1 Addled Parliament
3 16-01-1621 08-02-1622 Thomas Richardson 2
4 12-02-1624 27-03-1625 Thomas Crewe 1
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Parliaments of Charles I

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions Colloquial name
1 17-05-1625 12-08-1625 Thomas Crewe 2
2 06-02-1626 15-06-1626 Heneage Finch 1
3 17-03-1628 10-03-1629 John Finch 2
4 13-04-1640 05-05-1640 John Glanville 1 Short Parliament
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The Revolutionary Parliament and Parliaments of the Commonwealth

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions Colloquial name
03-11-1640 20-04-1653 William Lenthall, Henry Pelham 1 Long Parliament
22-01-1644 08-10-1644 1 King's anti-Parliament at Oxford
04-07-1653 12-12-1653 Francis Rous 1 Little Parliament
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Parliaments of the Protectorate

These parliaments included representatives of Scotland and Ireland.

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions Colloquial name
03-09-1654 22-01-1655 William Lenthall 1
17-09-1656 04-02-1658 Thomas Widdrington, Bulstrode Whitelocke 2
27-01-1659 22-04-1659 Chaloner Chute, Lislebone Long, Thomas Bampfylde 2 Long Parliament (restored)
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Parliaments of the Commonwealth

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions Colloquial name
07-05-1659 16-03-1660 William Say, William Lenthall 1 Rump Parliament
25-04-1660 29-12-1660 Harbottle Grimston 2 Convention Parliament
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Parliaments of Charles II

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions Colloquial name
1 08-05-1661 24-01-1679 Edward Turnour, Job Charlton, Edward Seymour, Robert Sawyer 16 Long or Pension Parliament
2 06-03-1679 12-07-1679 William Gregory 2 Habeas Corpus Parliament
3 21-10-1680 18-01-1681 William Williams 1 Exclusion Bill Parliament
4 21-03-1681 28-03-1681 William Williams 1 Oxford Parliament
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Parliaments of James II

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions Colloquial name
1 19-05-1685 02-07-1687 John Trevor 1
2 22-01-1689 06-02-1690 Henry Powle 2 (Convention)
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Parliaments of William III and Mary II

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 20-03-1690 11-10-1695 John Trevor 6
2 20-03-1695 07-07-1698 Paul Foley 3
3 24-08-1698 19-12-1700 Thomas Littleton 2
4 06-02-1701 11-11-1701 Robert Harley 1
5 30-12-1701 02-07-1702 Robert Harley 1
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Parliaments of Anne

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 20-08-1702 05-04-1705 Robert Harley 3
2 14-07-1705 03-04-1708 John Smith 3

On the 29-04-1707, the Parliament of Great Britain was constituted.

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