1. 1640 (Apr.)
    The Short Parliament was so called because it sat for less than a month.
  2. 1640 (Nov.)
  3. 1644
  4. 1653
    On the expulsion of the Rump Parliament on 20 April 1653 by Oliver Cromwell, lord general of the army, supreme power in the nation rested with Cromw
  5. 1654
  6. 1656
    Of the three parliaments of the Cromwellian Protectorate, the second is arguably the most dramatic.
  7. 1659