The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session from 27 January until 22 April 1659 with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfield as the Speakers of the House. January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... Events May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. ... In the British House of Commons the Speaker of the House of Commons controls the day to day running of the house. ...

After the death of Oliver Cromwell his son Richard Cromwell succeeded him as Lord Protector of the Protectorate on 3 September 1658. As a civilian, Richard did not have the full confidence of the Army, particularly as the administration had a perennial budget deficit of half a million pounds and the Army was owed nearly nine hundred thousand pounds in back pay. His only option was to call a Parliament in the hope that it would cement his position by general recognition of the ruling class and by raising new taxes to pay the arrears owed to the the Army. Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper, 1657. ... For the American actor of the 1930s and 1940s, please see Richard Cromwell (actor) Richard Cromwell (October 4, 1626- July 12, 1712) was the third son of Oliver Cromwell, and was Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, for little over eight months, from September 3, 1658 until May 25... The Lord Protector was the head of state during the brief period of the republic or Commonwealth in Great Britain and Ireland. ... The Protectorate in English history refers specifically to the English government of 1653 to 1659 under the direct control of Oliver Cromwell, who assumed the title of Lord Protector of the newly declared Commonwealth of England (later the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland) after the English Civil War. ... September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). ... Events January 13 - Edward Sexby, who has plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross from Sweden to Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by Thomas Browne September... This article deals with the English Civil War army. ...

The Third Protectorate Parliament was summoned on 9 December 1658 on the basis of the old franchise, and assembled on 27 January 1659. Richard was recognised as Lord Protector by the Parliament by 223 votes to 134, but over the next month the old divisions re-surfaced. The "Commonwealthsmen" and members of the Rump Parliament (such as Sir Henry Vane, Edmund Ludlow and Sir Arthur Haselrig) wanted to dismantle the Protectorate and return to the Commonwealth which had existed between the regicide of Charles I in January 1649 and the dismissal of the Rump Parliament by Oliver Cromwell in 1653. December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The original Rump Parliament was the remnant of the Long Parliament, following Prides Purge (1648). ... Sir Henry Vane the Elder (1589 - 1655), English courtier, father of Henry Vane the Younger Sir Henry Vane the Younger (1613 - 1662), statesman, Puritan, son of Henry Vane the Elder This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Edmund Ludlow (c. ... Sir Arthur Haselrig, 2nd Baron(died January 7, 1661), English parliamentarian, is best remembered as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642, an event that helped precipitate the English Civil War. ... The Commonwealth was the republican government which ruled first England and then the whole of Britain, Ireland, the colonies and other Crown possessions during the periods from 1649 (the monarch Charles I being beheaded on January 30 and An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth being passed by the... The broad definition of Regicide is the deliberate killing of a king. ... Charles I ( 19 November 1600– 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625, until his death. ... Events January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. ... Events February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. ...

The Protectorate faction was led by the Secretary of State John Thurloe, General John Lambert and Major-Generals Charles Fleetwood and Sir John Desborough. These wished to keep the Protectorate but were divided over who should command the Army and be Lord Protector. John Thurloe (1616-1668) was a secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell. ... John Lambert (1619 - 1684) served as an English Parliamentary general in the English Civil War. ... Charles Fleetwood (died 4 October 1692), English Parliamentary soldier and politician, third son of Sir Miles Fleetwood of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, and of Anne, daughter of Nicholas Luke of Woodend, Bedfordshire, was admitted into Grays Inn on 30 November 1638. ... John Desborough (1608 – 1680), English soldier and politician, son of James Desborough of Eltisley, Cambridgeshire, and of Elizabeth Hatley of Over in the same county, was baptized on 13 November 1608. ...

The issues came to a head when Parliament attempted to impeach Major-General William Boteler for actions he had carried out during the Rule of the Major-Generals in 1656. In response to the attempted impeachment, on 6 April the Grandees in the Army presented Parliament with a declaration calling for soldiers' indemnity from prosecution for all actions carried out during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate. But accepting that the Commonwealthsmen were in the ascendency in Parliament, Desborough and Fleetwood forced a reluctant Richard Cromwell to use his powers as Lord Protector to dissolve Parliament on 22 April 1659. Events Masuria is devastated during the Deluge when it was raided by Tartars and Poles End of the war started in 1648 between Poland, Ducal Prussia, Russia and Transylvania. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... Spanish nobles are classified either as Grandees (also called Peers) or as Titled Nobles. ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... Events May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. ...

The Grandees intended to keep Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector under Army control, without calling another parliament. Their position was undermined, however, when it became clear that the Army's rank and file still harboured support for the "Good Old Cause" of the Commonwealth, and still wanted to have their arrears of pay settled. This swell of ground support forced the Grandees to allow Richard Cromwell to re-call the Rump Parliament less than a month after the dissolution of the Third Protectorate Parliament. The original Rump Parliament was the remnant of the Long Parliament, following Prides Purge (1648). ...

There were two Speakers during the Third Protectorate Parliament and two Deputy Speakers. Chaloner Chute served as Speaker from 27 January until 14 April 1659, with two deputy speakers: Sir Lislebone Long from 9 March – 14 March, and Thomas Bampfield from 16 March - 14 April. Thomas Bampfield was Speaker from 15 April until 22 April 1659. January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... Events May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... Events May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. ...

The Third Protectorate Parliament was preceded by the Second Protectorate Parliament and followed by the Rump Parliament. The original Rump Parliament was the remnant of the Long Parliament, following Prides Purge (1648). ...

See also

• List of Parliaments of England

This is a list of Parliaments of England from the reign of Henry VII to 1707. ...

Reference

• The British Civil Wars & Commonwealth website: Third Protectorate Parliament 1659 (http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/protectorate-parliament-2.htm)
• www.archontology.org: England: Parliament 1640-1660 (http://www.archontology.org/nations/england/commonwealth/01_parl_1640.php)