Sentence examples for long parliament from inspiring English sources

We have a long parliament.

Exactly how long Parliament will remain in session is unclear.

The Long Parliament proved much more intransigent than the Short, however.

Westminster Assembly, (1643 52), assembly called by the English Long Parliament to reform the Church of England.

The Long Parliament (1640 53) opened with the imprisonment of Strafford and Laud, the architects of the Scottish fiasco.

Long Parliament, the English Parliament summoned in November 1640 by King Charles I; it has been so named to distinguish it from the Short Parliament of April May 1640.

Charles, deeply perturbed at his second defeat, convened a council of peers on whose advice he summoned another Parliament, the Long Parliament, which met at Westminster in November 1640.

Short Parliament, (April 13 May 5, 1640), parliament summoned by Charles I of England, the first to be summoned for 11 years, since 1629, and the prelude to the Long Parliament.

Although the Scots remained in the north, in November the king reluctantly agreed to convene parliament (the Long Parliament) in order to raise the money needed to pay his own army and to buy off the Scots.

At the opening of both the Short Parliament in April 1640 and the Long Parliament in November 1640, Pym made impassioned and influential speeches outlining the various ills of the kingdom.

A new parliament (the Long Parliament), which no one dreamed would sit for the next 20 years, assembled at Westminster on November 3, 1640, and immediately called for the impeachment of Wentworth, who by now was the earl of Strafford.