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The Rump was created by Pride's Purge of those members of the Long Parliament who did not support the political position of the Grandees in the New Model Army.
Thus the Rump never had more than two hundred members ( less than half the number of the Commons in the original Long Parliament ).
The Rump had not agreed to its own dissolution when it was dispersed by Cromwell and legislation from the period immediately before the Civil War — the Act against dissolving the Long Parliament without its own consent ( 11 May 1641 ) -- gave them the legal basis for this view.
On 21 February 1660, Monck reinstated the Presbyterian members of the Long Parliament ' secluded ' by Pride, so that they could prepare legislation for a new parliament.
The Long Parliament dissolved itself on 16 March.
* 1648 – Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead ; came to be known as " Pride's Purge ".
The first ( 1642 – 46 ) and second ( 1648 – 49 ) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third war ( 1649 – 51 ) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament.
He was re-elected MP for Tamworth in 1645 for the Long Parliament and held the seat until his death in 1648.
* 1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
The Long Parliament of England was established on 3 November 1640 to pass financial bills, following the Bishops ' Wars.
In the chaos following the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, General George Monck allowed the members barred in 1648 to retake their seats so that they could pass the necessary legislation to allow the Restoration and dissolve the Long Parliament.
However many of these original members of Long Parliament, such as were barred from the final acts of the Long Parliament and executed by King Charles II upon his restoration, claimed that the Long Parliament was never legally dissolved.
The Long Parliament comprised " a set of the greatest geniuses for government, that the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause " and whose actions produced an effect, which, at the time, made their country the wonder and admiration of the world, and is still felt and exhibited far beyond the borders of that country, in the progress of reform, and the advancement of popular liberty.
The King himself being thereby implicated, and the Long Parliament passed the Triennial Act, also known as the Dissolution Act, in May 1641, to which the Royal Assent was readily granted.
The Speaker of the House during the Long Parliament was William Lenthall.
The Long Parliament continued to sit during and beyond the Civil War without its royalist members, because of the Dissolution Act.

Long and dissolved
Having called for elections for a new Parliament to meet on 25 April, the Long Parliament was effectively dissolved on 16 March 1660.
According to contemporary royalist legal theory, the Long Parliament was regarded as having been automatically dissolved from the moment of Charles I's execution on 30 January 1649.
* Having called for elections for a Parliament to meet on 25 April, the Long Parliament dissolved itself on 16 March 1660
* 1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
It was called the Long Parliament ( 1640 – 1660 ), because it was not officially dissolved by its own vote until 1660.
The reconstituted Long Parliament dissolved itself on 16 March 1660 after preparing legislation for a new Convention Parliament to be summoned.
It was held by the Lords to be seditious and scandalous ; while for publishing another pamphlet written by Holles entitled The Grand Question concerning the Prorogation of this Parliament ( otherwise The Long Parliament dissolved ) the corrector of the proof sheets was committed to the Tower and fined £ 1000.
Shaftesbury ( joined by Buckingham, Salisbury and Wharton ), proclaimed the session illegitimate, claiming that the " Long Prorogation " implied that parliament was effectively dissolved and that the king must call for new elections.
In 1460, owing to its poverty, the priory was dissolved and annexed to the nearby Nutley Abbey in Long Crendon.
After wars in Scotland and Ireland the Long Parliament had still not dissolved itself or called for re-elections. On 30 April 1653, Oliver Cromwell declared Parliament and the Council dissolved and soon assumed rule as Lord Protector calling elections for a new Parliament himself.
This ended the Personal Rule, though Charles dissolved the Short Parliament after only a few days ; by the end of the year, with the Scots still in England and no other routes left to him, he summoned the revolutionary Long Parliament.
Charles was advised by Edward Hyde and others not to dissolve the Long Parliament as this would violate the statute of 1641 which said that Parliament could not be dissolved without its own consent.
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Long and itself
In Parmigianino's Madonna with the Long Neck ( 1534-40 ), Mannerism makes itself known by elongated proportions, highly stylized poses, and lack of clear perspective.
The LIRR refocused its attentions towards serving Long Island itself, in competition with other railroads on the island.
The adventure takes Bilbo and the companions through the wilderness, to the elf haven of Rivendell, across the Misty Mountains and the black forest of Mirkwood, to Lake-town in the middle of Long Lake, and eventually to the Mountain itself.
Despite the limited land mass, there has also been a tendency for place names to be repeated ; there are, for instance, two islands named " Long Island ", three bays known as " Long Bay " and the town of St. George is located within the parish of St. George on the island of St. George ( each known as St. George's ), whereas Bermuda's capital, the City of Hamilton, lies in Pembroke Parish, not Hamilton Parish, on the largest island, " Main Island ", which itself is sometimes called " Bermuda " ( or " Great Bermuda ").
announced its intentions to divest itself of its Long John Silver's and A & W brands to focus on its core brands of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
There are many other specialized doughnut shapes such as old-fashioneds, bars or Long Johns ( a rectangular shape ), or with the dough twisted around itself before cooking.
Long Lake itself is the remnants of the glaciers, as it was a chunk of ice that was left behind, melted, and created the lake in the hole it occupied.
It was later part of Ocean Township, which had seceded from Shrewsbury Township in 1849 and included at the time present-day Eatontown, Neptune Township, Neptune City, Avon-by-the-Sea, Bradley Beach, Asbury Park, Allenhurst, Deal, Long Branch, West Long Branch, Loch Arbour, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright and Oceanport, along with Interlaken itself.
Even though it is an Island itself, Island Park is situated in the Long Island section of New York.
All the Quakers suffered the British occupation of Long Island including the practice of quartering troops in their homes while they continued to protest the entire concept of war itself.
The village limits enclose part of Eatons Neck and a long, low, narrow isthmus ( itself referred to as Asharoken ) connecting Northport in the southeast to Eaton's Neck in the northwest, and separating Northport Bay from Long Island Sound.
The Long Parliament met and officially ended ( in 1660, after being open since 1640 ) when it voted to dissolve itself and create a new Parliament.
Besides the Avebury Stone Circle itself, there are numerous other prehistoric sites nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow and the West Kennet Avenue, both of which are near to the included settlement of West Kennett.
originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963, which was itself inspired by " The Donkeys ," Alan Clark's 1961 attack on Great War generalship.
The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, fought on August 27, 1776, was the first major battle in the American Revolutionary War following the United States Declaration of Independence, the largest battle of the entire conflict, and the first battle in which an army of the United States engaged, having declared itself a nation only the month before.
" Long Point itself is one of the most important wetland complexes for migrating waterfowl in southern Canada, and is reported to receive the highest waterfowl use ( based on numbers of waterfowl days during spring and fall migration ) of any area on the Great Lakes ( approximately 4 million days per year ).
Unlike some other species of North American pit vipers, such as Crotalus horridus and Sistrurus catenatus, Agkistrodon contortrix has not reestablished itself north of the terminal moraine after the last glacial period ( the Wisconsin glaciation ), except it is found in southeastern New York State and southern New England, an area north of Long Island ( the terminal moraine of the Wisconsin glaciation ).
The primary feature in this area is Long Beach itself.

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