List of Parliaments of England

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.

Parliaments before 1461

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 Edward IV

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 Richard III

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

Parliaments of Henry VII

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 Henry VIII

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 Edward VI

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 Mary I

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 Elizabeth I

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 James I

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 Charles I

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 Commonwealth

Opened	Dismissed	Speaker	Sessions	Colloquial name
3 November 1640	20 April 1653	William Lenthall, Henry Pelham	1	Long Parliament
22 January 1644	8 October 1644		1	King's Oxford Parliament at Oxford
4 July 1653	12 December 1653	Francis Rous	1	Little Parliament or (Barebones Parliament)

Parliaments of The Protectorate

These parliaments included representatives of Scotland and Ireland.

Opened	Dismissed	Speaker	Sessions	Colloquial name
3 September 1654	22 January 1655	William Lenthall	1	First Protectorate Parliament
17 September 1656	4 February 1658	Thomas Widdrington, Bulstrode Whitelocke	2	Second Protectorate Parliament
27 January 1659	22 April 1659	Chaloner Chute, Lislebone Long (Deputy), Thomas Bampfylde	1	Third Protectorate Parliament
7 May 1659	13 October 1659	William Lenthall	1	Rump Parliament (Restored)

Parliaments of the Commonwealth

Opened	Dismissed	Speaker	Sessions	Colloquial name
26 December 1659	—	William Lenthall, William Say (Deputy)	1	Rump Parliament
21 February 1660 Pride's Purge reversed	16 March 1660	William Lenthall	1	Long Parliament
25 April 1660	29 December 1660	Harbottle Grimston	1	Convention Parliament

Parliaments of Charles II

Number	Opened	Dismissed	Speaker	Sessions	Colloquial name
1	8 May 1661	24 January 1679	Edward Turnour, Job Charlton, Edward Seymour, Robert Sawyer	16	Cavalier Parliament
2	6 March 1679	12 July 1679	William Gregory	2	Habeas Corpus Parliament
3	21 October 1680	18 January 1681	William Williams	1	Exclusion Bill Parliament
4	21 March 1681	28 March 1681	William Williams	1	Oxford Parliament

Parliaments of James II

Number	Opened	Dismissed	Speaker	Sessions	Colloquial name
1	19 May 1685	2 July 1687	John Trevor	1	Loyal Parliament
2	22 January 1689	6 February 1690	Henry Powle	2	Convention Parliament

Parliaments of William III and Mary II

Number	Opened	Dismissed	Speaker	Sessions
1	20 March 1690	11 October 1695	John Trevor	6
2	20 March 1695	7 July 1698	Paul Foley	3
3	24 August 1698	19 December 1700	Thomas Littleton	2
4	6 February 1701	11 November 1701	Robert Harley	1
5	30 December 1701	2 July 1702	Robert Harley	1

Parliaments of Anne

Number	Opened	Dismissed	Speaker	Sessions
1	20 August 1702	5 April 1705	Robert Harley	3
2	14 July 1705	3 April 1707	John Smith	3

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

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