Second Protectorate Parliament

Parliaments of England
Predecessors   Witenagemot 7th – 11th centuries   Curia regis 1066 – c. 1215
Henry III   1st 1237   2nd 1242   3rd 1244   4th 1246   3rd 1247   4th 1248   Unnumbered 1251   5th 1252   6th 1253   7th 1254   8th 1255   9th 1258   10th "Oxford/Mad" 1258   11th "Simon de Montfort" 1265
Edward I   "Model" 1295
Edward II   "Westminster" 1327
Edward III   "Good" 1376   "Bad" 1377
Richard II   "Wonderful" 1386   "Merciless" 1388
Henry IV   "Convention" 1399   "Unlearned" 1404
Henry V   "Fire and Faggot" 1414
Henry VI   "Bats" 1426   "Devils" 1459
Edward IV
Richard III
Henry VII
Henry VIII   "Reformation" 1529–1536
Edward VI
Mary I   1st 1553   2nd 1554   3rd 1554–1555   4th 1555   5th 1558
Elizabeth I   1st 1559   2nd 1563–1567   3rd 1571   4th 1572–1583   5th 1584–1585   6th 1586–1587   7th 1589   8th 1593   9th 1597–1598   10th 1601
James I   1st "Blessed" 1604   2nd "Addled" 1614   3rd 1621   4th 1624
Charles I   1st "Useless" 1625   2nd 1626   3rd 1628   4th "Short" Apr 1640   5th "Long (1) Nov 1640   Oxford/Mongrel 1644
Revolution and Commonwealth   1st "Long (2) 1645   2nd "Rump (1)" 1648   3rd "Barebone's/Little/Nominated Assembly/Saints" 1653
Protectorate   1st 1654   2nd 1656   3rd 1659   4th "Rump (2)" 1659
Commonwealth   1st "Rump (3)" 1659   2nd "Long (3)" 1660
Charles II   1st "Convention (1)" 1660   2nd "Cavalier" 1661   3rd "Habeas Corpus/First Exclusion" 1679   4th "Exclusion Bill/Second Exclusion" 1680   5th "Oxford/Third Exclusion" 1681
James II   "Loyal" 1685
William III and Mary II   1st "Convention (2)" 1689   2nd 1690   3rd 1695   4th 1698   5th Feb 1701   6th Dec 1701
Anne   1st 1702   2nd 1705
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The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons. In its first session, the House of Commons was its only chamber; in the second session an Other House with a power of veto over the decisions of the Commons was added.