Note (19) — Chapter III

The Long Parliament had dissolved itself, and had decreed the election of its successor. By the Act 13 Charles II. (Revised Statutes, i. 733) the Long Parliament is “declared and adjudged to be fully dissolved and determined;” but it is not said when it was dissolved and determined. See also Lingard, ix. 5; Hallam’s Constitutional History, ii. 21, where the whole matter is discussed, and it is remarked that “the next Parliament never gave their predecessors any other name in the Journals than ‘the late assembly.’”