This ground-breaking volume fills a major historiographical gap by providing the firstdetailed book-length study of the period of the Protectorate Parliaments fromSeptember 1654 to April 1659. The study is very broad in its scope, covering topicsas diverse as the British and Irish dimensions of the Protectorate Parliaments, thepolitical and social nature of factions, problems of management, the legal and judicialaspects of Parliament’s functions, foreign policy, and the nature of the parliamentaryfranchise and elections in this period. In its wide-ranging analysis of Parliaments andpolitics throughout the Protectorate, the book also examines both Lord Protectors, allthree Protectorate Parliaments, and the reasons why Oliver and Richard Cromwellwere never able to achieve a stable working relationship with any Parliament. Itschronological coverage extends to the demise of the Third Protectorate Parliament inApril 1659. This comprehensive account will appeal to historians of early modernBritish political history

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