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Oliver Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament is a 1782 history painting by the American-born British artist Benjamin West. It depicts the Long Parliament being forcibly dissolved by Oliver Cromwell his soldiers on 20 April 1653 during the Commonwealth of England. Cromwell then assumed the role of Lord Protector until his death in 1658. [1]
"20 April Cromwell's Dissolution of the Rump Parliament". Chambers' Book of Days. (With a shortened version of Cromwell's speech). Cromwell, Oliver (20 April 2003) [20 April 1653]. "Cromwell's Dissolution of the Rump Parliament". Archived from the original on 1 December 2005. (with a fuller version of Cromwell's speech) Ludlow, Edmund (1894).
Cromwell was returned to this Parliament as member for Cambridge, but it lasted for only three weeks and became known as the Short Parliament. Cromwell moved his family from Ely to London in 1640. [24] A second Parliament was called later the same year and became known as the Long Parliament. Cromwell was again returned as member for Cambridge.
Oliver Cromwell was a sympathiser until 1653, when many fifth Monarchists opposed his creation of The Protectorate. Members believed the execution of Charles I in January 1649 marked the end of the Fourth Monarchy and viewed the Protectorate and 1660 Stuart Restoration as preventing the coming of the Fifth.
In 1653, the Grandees, with Oliver Cromwell leading these reformists, dismissed the Rump Parliament, replacing it with a Nominated Assembly (nicknamed the Parliament of Saints or Barebone's Parliament). [2] This Barebone's Parliament was composed of 140 nominees, 129 from England and Wales, five from Scotland and six from Ireland.
Parliament was in no mood to heed his warning and continued to disagree among themselves, so on 4 February 1658 Cromwell dissolved Parliament. [6] After Oliver Cromwell's death in September 1658, those in the funeral procession who had noble titles under the ancient regime were so called (for example Edward, Earl of Manchester); those who had ...
D. L. Smith, ‘Oliver Cromwell, the first Protectorate Parliament and religious reform’ in Parliamentary History 19 (2000); T.A. Wilson & F.J. Merli, 'Naylor's case and the dilemma of the Protectorate' in University of Birmingham Historical Journal 10 (1965-6); and C.H. Firth, 'Cromwell and the crown' in English Historical Review 17 & 18 ...
Dissolved along with the Rump Parliament by Cromwell with the support of the Army Council: 30 April 1653: 6 May 1653: John Lambert: Reconstituted with thirteen members of whom nine were Army officers. [a] 6 May 1653: 13 May 1653: Sir Gilbert Pickering: 13 May 1653: 27 May 1653: unknown 27 May 1653: 10 June 1653: John Desborough: 10 June 1653: ...