Long Parliament

The Long Parliament is the name of the English Parliament called by Charles I, in 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It receives its name from the fact that it sat almost continuously during the English Civil War until 1660. The sole reason Charles reassembled Parliament was to ask it to pass finance bills, since the Bishops' Wars had bankrupted him.

External links

• British Civil Wars: The Long Parliament
• British Civil Wars: 1641 Time Line
• British Civil Wars: 1642 Time Line
• Full text of The Triennial Act. 15 February 1641
• Full text of the Act against Dissolving the Long Parliament without its own Consent 11 May 1641
• Full text of the act Abolishing the Star Chamber 5 July 1641
• Full text of the Act Declaring the Illegality of Ship-money 7 August 1641
• Full Text of the Grand Remonstrance, with the Petition accompanying it. 22 November 1641
• Full text of the King?s Answer to the Petition Accompanying the Grand Remonstrance 23 December 1641
• Full text of The Solemn League and Covenant 25 September 1643
• Full text of the Ordinance appointing the First Committee of both Kingdoms 16 February 1644
• Full text of the Self-denying Ordinance 4 April 1645