Long Parliament meets: Impeachment of Laud + Strafford (Wentworth)

Question 1

Long Parliament meets:

Date

Answer 1

1640

Question 2

Long Parliament meets:

Summary

Answer 2

Under Long Parliament:

• Arrest and impeachments of Laud and Strafford
• Steps to forbid the financial strategies used by Charles to raise money outside parliament
• Passing of two Acts to ensure the future security of parliaments (Triennial Act, Act of Attainder and an Act against the Dissolution of this Parliament without its Own Consent).
• The group that led the opposition was ‘Pym’s Junto’.

Question 3

Long Parliament meets:

Consequence

Answer 3

The emergence of an organised opposition like Pym’s Junto was the result, rather than the cause, of the build-up to the political crisis. Relations between both sides broke down over the course of 1640-42.