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3 unusual facts about Barebone's Parliament


Bare Bones

Barebone's Parliament, a form of government in 17th century England, named after Praise-God Barebone

Barebone's Parliament

A third issue, reform of the legal system, again split the members, with Fifth Monarchists arguing that only laws contained in scripture should be reflected in the temporal legal system, while former members of the Rump's Hale Commission pushed for progressive reform.

He put forward the idea of a larger assembly, preferably numbering seventy based on the Jewish Sanhedrin.


28th Guards Rocket Division

There were plans to disband the entire division by 2010, but on November 5, 2008 President Dmitry Medvedev during his speech at the joint session of Russia's Parliament announced that the 28th Division will resume its mission.

Kingdom of Ireland

Parliament in this period came to be known as Grattan's Parliament, after the principal Irish leader of the period, Henry Grattan.

Louis Cullen

Cullen considered that the decline was inevitable, given the new steam-powered industrial revolution, and would have happened even if no union had occurred, and if Grattan's parliament had managed to secure a high level of Irish autonomy.

People's Parliament

After the invasion previous governments were replaced by pro-Communist "People's Governments".

Praise-God Barebone

Writing in 2001, Nicholas Tyacke speculated that he was the son of John Barebone, rector of Charwelton and Mary Roper of Daventry, and that he probably had an older brother called Fear-God (who is known to have been a minor poet).

Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire

A member of the Ó Maolconaire bardic family of Connacht, Tuileagna is known from a number of extant works, including Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann, addressed to Sir Nicholas Walsh, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Speaker of the third Irish Parliament convened in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, (Perrott’s parliament) of 1585–6.


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