During the Civil War, Pendennis Castle was the second to last fort to surrender to the Parliamentary Army.

The Parliamentary ordinance that was passed proclaimed Essex to be: " Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Army appointed to be raised, and of all other Forces of the Kingdom ... and that he the said Earl shall have and enjoy all Power, Titles, Preheminence, Authority, Jurisdiction, and Liberties, incident and belonging to the said Office of Captain-General, throughout the whole Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, in as large and ample a Manner as any other General of an Army in this Kingdom hath lawfully used exercised, and enjoyed.

Massey had been one of the few Parliamentary commanders to retain an independent commission when the New Model Army was formed.

Several historical events have taken place in and around the town, including attempted negotiations between King Charles I and the Parliamentary Army.

However, the Parliamentary leaders and the Army pressed on with the trial anyway.

In May 1650 Cromwell was recalled to England to command a Parliamentary force preparing to invade Scotland, and Ireton assumed command of the New Model Army in Ireland with the title and powers of lord-deputy to complete the conquest of the country.

* Thomas Cooper ( parliamentarian ) ( died 1659 ), colonel in the Parliamentary Army and politician

Of the destruction Kelly's Directory wrote in 1885: " the original church of St. James, of which some fragments of the tower remain, was burned down by soldiers of the Parliamentary Army who bivouacked there during the siege of Belvoir Castle ".

Despite being mostly untouched by the Civil War of 1642-1648, damage inflicted by Cromwell's Parliamentary Army in 1648 is said to have led to one of the most notable features of the castle, its leaning south-east tower.

There is some debate over whether the damage to the famous leaning tower was actually inflicted by the Parliamentary Army, or caused by subsidence.

They included the Royalists, who supported King Charles I ; the Parliamentary forces, called " Roundheads ," who later emerged under the name of the New Model Army led by Oliver Cromwell ; the Fifth Monarchy Men, who believed in the establishment of a heavenly theocracy on earth to be led by a returning Jesus as king of kings and lord of lords ; the Agitators for political egalitarian reform of government, who were branded " Levellers " by their foes and who were led by John Lilburne ; and the Christian communists, who called themselves the True Levellers for their beliefs but who were branded " Diggers " because of their actions.

In 1977 he also joined the Honourable Artillery Company, a unit of the Territorial Army based in Islington, serving for seven years and is a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies and Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme.

This prospective form of settlement was prevented by a coup d ' état which shifted power from Parliament itself to the Parliamentary New Model Army, controlled by Oliver Cromwell.

She was the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Childcare, Social Care, Myodil & Army Deaths.

Part of it served as an Army headquarters, General Fairfax ( the Parliamentary Commander-in-Chief ) being given official quarters there ; lodgings were also provided for certain other Parliamentary notables.

In the English Civil War, the Parliamentary Army built a blockhouse at East Mersea in 1648, with the aim of blockading the River Colne and the besieged town of Colchester.

Several Army officers were called to give evidence at a Parliamentary board of enquiry.

He served in Edward Heath's government from 1970, holding a variety of junior positions in the Ministry of Defence under Lord Carrington: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Army from 1970 to 1971, then Minister of State for Defence Procurement until 1972, then Minister of State for Defence.

John Redmond, the leader of the Volunteers and the Irish Parliamentary Party, called on nationalists to join the British Army.

Joining the Scottish Army, a force of some 9, 000 men, under the Earl of Leven Maclellan's regiment marched to Marston Moor where they joined forces with the English Parliamentary troops under Cromwell.

* 2 June, a troop of New Model Army cavalry seizes the King from his Parliamentary guards at Holdenby House and place him in ' protective custody '.

Seventy years later, during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Dominican Priory of Kilmallock was attacked and destroyed by a Parliamentary Army under Lord Inchiquin in 1648.

It was garrisoned by Royalists under Sir John Wintour, but was overrun in October 1644 by Parliamentary forces under Col. Edward Massey.

The town is within the South West England European Parliamentary constituency which elects six MEPs.

This stubborn resistance on the west bank of the Severn north of the Teme was becoming a serious problem for the Parliamentarians, so Cromwell led Parliamentary reinforcements from the eastern side of the town over the Severn pontoon bridge to aid Fleetwood.

* Lewes ( UK Parliament constituency ), a Parliamentary constituency based around that town

The town had been chosen as it was located between the Royal headquarters of Oxford and the Parliamentary stronghold of London.

Aldeburgh was a Parliamentary Borough from 1571, and returned two Members of Parliament, the right to vote being vested in the Freemen of the town.

Emerson Park is part of the Hornchurch post town and forms part of the Hornchurch and Upminster Parliamentary constituency.

The Parliamentary Constituency is Harborough which includes the town, surrounding rural areas as well as the urban areas of Oadby, Wigston and South Wigston, all southern suburbs of the city of Leicester to the north.

On 23 August 1642, a skirmish took place outside of the town between Parliamentary forces led by Lord Brooke and Royalist forces commanded by the Earl of Northampton.

Wardour Castle fell to Parliamentary forces in 1643 ; Parliamentary forces surrounded the town in August 1645, when it was a centre of local clubmen activity.

In June 1647 he was brought through the town as a prisoner of the Parliamentary army.

Before 1997, the town was part of the UK Parliamentary constituency of Windsor and Maidenhead which was consistently held by the Conservative Party.

A small Royalist force was quartered in the town when on 13 December 1643 they were surprised by a Parliamentary army of around 5, 000 men.

The town became a Parliamentary Borough in 1585 returning two MPs until 1832 when its electoral base was expanded.

The town lies within the Parliamentary constituency of North Devon, and the European Region of South West England.

During the English Civil War ( 1642 – 1645 ) the town is thought to have changed hands at least four times between the Royalist and Parliamentary supporters.

Between 1983 and 1997, the town was part of the UK Parliamentary constituency of Windsor and Maidenhead which was continually held by the Conservative Party during this period.

Before 1983, the town was within the boundaries of the UK Parliamentary constituency of Eton and Slough.

Before 1997, the town was part of the UK Parliamentary constituency of Windsor and Maidenhead which was consistently held by the Conservative Party.

News from outside the town also circulated widely: Freeth's Coffeehouse in 1772 maintained an archive of all the London newspapers going back 37 years and received direct personal reports of proceedings in Parliament, while Overton's Coffeehouse in New Street in 1777 had the London papers delivered by express messenger the day after their publication, also having available all of the main country, Irish and European papers, and Parliamentary division lists.

He was one of the chief promoters of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, helped to further extend the harbour facilities of the town and championed the merits of Welsh coal in Parliamentary debates.

The involvement of LB & SCR directors in this scheme was interpreted by the SER as a breach of the 1849 agreement, and in retaliation the SER joined with the LC & DR and obtained Parliamentary approval to build a rival ' London, Lewes and Brighton Railway ', which would undermine the profitable LB & SCR monopoly in that town.