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This article is a List of Parliaments of England. Devolved English Parliament is about the debate on a devolved parliament for England.
List of Parliaments of England is a list of the sittings of the Parliament of England, from the reign of Edward IV to 1707 with some earlier named parliaments. For later parliaments, see the List of Parliaments of Great Britain. For the history of the English Parliament, see Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Parliaments before

Name Opened Dismissed Speaker Monarch Comments
Parliament of Merton 1236 unknown Henry III
Oxford Parliament 1258 Peter de Montfort¹ Henry III
De Montfort's Parliament 1265 unknown Henry III First time that Members
of Parliament elected
Model Parliament November 1295 unknown Edward I
Good Parliament 28 April 1376 10 July 1376 Sir Peter de la Mare¹ Edward III
Bad Parliament 1377 Sir Thomas Hungerford Edward III
Wonderful Parliament November 1386 unknown Richard II
Merciless Parliament February 1388 unknown Richard II
Fire and Faggot Parliament 1414 Walter Hungerford Henry V held in Leicester
Parliament of 1415 21 October 1415 unknown Henry V held in Westminster

Parliament of 1425 30 April 1425 unknown Henry VI held in Westminster

Parliament of Bats 1426 Richard Vernon Henry VI held in Leicester
Parliament of Devils 20 November 1459 Thomas Tresham Henry VI

¹ The presiding officer of the House was initially known as the "Prolocutor".

Parliaments of

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 4 November 1461 6 May 1462 James Strangeways ?
2 29 April 1463 28 March 1465 John Say ?
3 3 June 1467 7 June 1468 John Say ?
4 6 October 1472 14 March 1475 William Alington ?
5 16 January 1478 26 February 1478 William Alington 1
6 20 January 1483 18 February 1483 John Wood 1

Parliaments of

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 23 January 1484 20 February 1484 William Catesby 1

Parliaments of

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 7 November 1485 4 March 1486 Thomas Lovell 1
2 9 November 1487 18 December 1487 John Mordaunt 1
3 13 January 1489 27 February 1490 Thomas fitzWilliam 1
4 17 October 1491 5 March 1492 Richard Empson 1
5 14 October 1495 22 December 1495 Robert Drury 1
6 16 January 1497 13 March 1497 Thomas Englefield 1
7 25 January 1504 1 April 1504 Edmund Dudley 1

Parliaments of

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions Colloquial name
1 21 January 1510 23 February 1510 Thomas Englefield 1
2 4 February 1512 4 March 1514 Robert Sheffield 4
3 5 February 1515 22 December 1515 Thomas Neville 2
4 15 April 1523 13 August 1523 Thomas More 3
5 3 November 1529 15 April 1536 Thomas Audley, Humphrey Wingfield, Richard Rich 9 Reformation Parliament
6 8 June 1536 18 July 1536 Richard Rich 1
7 28 April 1539 24 July 1540 Nicholas Hare 3
8 16 January 1542 28 March 1544 Thomas Moyle 3
9 23 November 1545 31 January 1547 Thomas Moyle 2

Parliaments of

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 4 November 1547 15 April 1552 Sir John Baker 4
2 1 March 1553 31 March 1553 James Dyer 1
3 5 October 1553 5 December 1553 Sir John Pollard 1

Parliaments of

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 2 April 1554 5 May 1554 Robert Brooke 1
2 12 November 1554 16 January 1555 Clement Higham 1
3 21 October 1555 9 December 1555 Sir John Pollard 1
4 20 January 1558 17 November 1558 William Cordell 2

Parliaments of

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions
1 23 January 1559 8 May 1559 Thomas Gargrave 1
2 11 January 1563 2 January 1567 Thomas Williams 2
3 1 October 1566 1 October 1566 Richard Onslow 1
4 2 April 1571 29 May 1571 Christopher Wray 1
5 8 May 1572 19 April 1583 Robert Bell 2
6 18 January 1581 18 January 1581 John Popham 1
7 23 November 1584 14 September 1585 John Puckering 2
8 15 October 1586 23 March 1587 John Puckering 2
9 4 February 1589 29 March 1589 Thomas Snagge 1
10 19 February 1593 10 April 1593 Edward Coke 1
11 24 October 1597 9 February 1598 Christopher Yelverton 2
12 27 October 1601 19 December 1601 John Croke 1

Parliaments of

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions Colloquial name
1 19 March 1604 9 February 1611 Edward Phelips 5
2 5 April 1614 7 June 1614 Randolph Crewe 1 Addled Parliament
3 16 January 1621 8 February 1622 Thomas Richardson 2
4 12 February 1624 27 March 1625 Thomas Crewe 1 Happy Parliament

Parliaments of

Number Opened Dismissed Speaker Sessions Colloquial name
1 17 May 1625 12 August 1625 Thomas Crewe 2 Useless Parliament
2 6 February 1626 15 June 1626 Heneage Finch 1
3 17 March 1628 10 March 1629 John Finch 2
4 13 April 1640 5 May 1640 John Glanville 1 Short Parliament
5 3 November 1640 20 April 1653 William Lenthall, Henry Pelham 1 Long Parliament

The Revolutionary Parliament and Parliaments of the

Parliaments of

These parliaments included representatives of Scotland and Ireland.

Parliaments of the Commonwealth

Parliaments of

Parliaments of

Parliaments of

Parliaments of

On the 29 April 1707, the Parliament of Great Britain was constituted.

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