1. barebone's parliament Cromwell's Little Parliament, met 4th July 1653; derisively called Barebone's Parliament, from one Praise-God Barebone, a member of it. "If not the remarkablest Assembly, yet the Assembly for the remarkablest purpose," says Carlyle, "that ever met in the modern world; the businessbeing no less than introducing of the Christianreligion into realpractice in the socialaffairs of this nation.... In this it failed, could not but fail, with what we call the Devil and all his angels against it, and the LittleParliament had to go its ways again," 12th December in the sameyear.
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