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5 unusual facts about Long Parliament


Christopher Lewknor

He was re-elected MP for Chichester in November 1640 for the Long Parliament and sat until he was disabled as a Royalist.

Phineas Hodson

Hodson's association with the Stuart monarchy made his position difficult when the Long Parliament was called.

Purge

In 1648-1650, the moderate members of the English Long Parliament were purged by the army.

Robert Sibthorpe

His living was sequestrated by the Long Parliament in 1647, but restored in 1660 at the time of the English Restoration.

William Lilly

He then began to issue his prophetical almanacs and other works, which met with serious attention from some of the most prominent members of the Long Parliament.


Bunratty Castle

During the Confederate Wars set off by the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Lord Forbes, commanding forces of the English Long Parliament, was allowed by the then Lord Barnabas O'Brien to occupy Bunratty in 1646.

Clandon Park

The estate had been bought in 1641, together with Temple Court Farm at Merrow, by Sir Richard Onslow, MP for Surrey in the Long Parliament, from Sir Richard Weston, canal builder & pioneering agriculturalist, of nearby Sutton Place.

John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper

He was knighted, and was elected member for Kent in the Long Parliament, when he took the popular side, speaking against monopolies on 9 November 1640, being entrusted with the impeachment of Sir Robert Berkeley on 12 February 1641, supporting Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford's attainder, and being appointed to the committee of defence on 12 August 1641.

John Pym

John Pym (1584 – 8 December 1643) was an English parliamentarian, leader of the Long Parliament and a prominent critic of Kings James I and then Charles I.

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull

The earl had five sons, one of whom became Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, another was Francis Pierrepont (died 1659), a colonel in the parliamentary army and afterwards a member of the Long Parliament; and another was William Pierrepont (1608–1679), father-in-law of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and also Henry Cavendish Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet, of Chippenham

Francis Russell son and heir of Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, was returned a member for the county of Cambridge in the Long Parliament.

Viscount Maynard

Sir John Maynard, another son of Sir Henry Maynard, represented Essex in the Long Parliament but was impeached for high treason, expelled from the House of Commons and imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Zacharey Grey

He produced a volume reproducing many of the sermons of Puritan ministers during the Long Parliament in A Century of Eminent Presbyterian Preachers. This was written to target Edmund Calamy, but Grey countered John Oldmixon as well.


see also

Lord Grey

Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby (c. 1623–1657) was MP for Leicester during the English Long Parliament, supported the Parliamentary cause in the Civil War and was a regicide