Sterile Parliament

The sterile Parlement was a Parlement of England, the second Parlement of the reign of Jacques Ier, which sat of the April 5th to the June 7th 1614. The precedent had lasted of 1604 to 1611. Its president was Randolph Crewe, and it is at this Parliament that sat for the first time John Eliot and Thomas Wentworth.

The name of this Parliament refers to its inefficiency. It did not last more than eight weeks, and it did not manage to solve the existing conflict between the king, who wished to join together money, and the House of Commons, which opposed the increase Impôt S.

This Parliament did not vote for any text, and, the situation being blocked, it was dissolved by the king on Friday, June 7, 1614. The following days, several members of Parliament were arrested and imprisoned for their speeches, considered to be seditious, made at this session. The majority were released in the following weeks.

Deprived of the parliamentary authorizations, the king was constrained to use of expédients unpopular, like the sale of Monopole S, to raise the desired funds.

See too

List of the Parliaments of England

Sources

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