The refusal of the Rump Parliament on 1 April 1653 to renew the commission set up in February 1650 for the propagation of the gospel in Wales was not least among the factors which provoked Oliver Cromwell's* dissolution of it on 20 April. Five days later, in the absence of any supreme authority save that of the army, he urged the propagation commissioners to ‘go on cheerfully as formerly’. Letters and Speeches ed. Carlyle, Lomas, ii. 282-3; iii.
The Nominated Assembly was the first early modern Parliament to include MPs from Scotland, and represents a staging-post between the limited tender union offered in 1652 and the rather more generous union ordinance of April 1654. There was no attempt to involve the Scots in the nomination of members in 1653, and the choice of MPs seems to have been made by Oliver Cromwell* himself, working on information from English officers serving in Scotland.
The Nominated Assembly was the first interregnum Parliament to include Members from Ireland, in an attempt to represent the ‘commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland’ as a whole. Ludlow, Mems. i.