The Calling of the Barebones Parliament Reconsidered

The Barebones Parliament occupies a unique place in the parliamentary history of England. It is probably the only parliament in English history whose members were not chosen by the electorate. Unlike other English parliaments, its members were selected by Cromwell and his Council of Officers and selected, in the main, from the Congregational communities in the nation. According to the principle professed at the time, they were chosen not because of their estates, their family connexions or their political patrons, but rather because of their reputation as ‘men of integrity, fearing God and hating covetousness’.Although the Barebones Parliament turned out to be a failure, with little or almost nothing accomplished after a short but tempestuous session, it was none the less important as a political experiment in Puritan utopianism

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• Milton and the Puritan Dilemma, 1641-1660

  Louis B Wright, Arthur Barker•The Philosophical Review•1944

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• The Calling of Barebone's Parliament

  Austin Woolrych•The English Historical Review•1965

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• The Usurpation of Honest London Householders

  James E Farnell•The English Historical Review•1967

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