Cavalier Parliament

Sat from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It followed the Convention Parliament. Like its predecessor, it was Royalist - but not always supporting Charles II (especially not in questions of religious toleration). The dissolution of the Cavalier Parliament was triggered by the Popish Plot and the ensuing Exclusion Crisis. It was dissolved 24 January 24 1679.

Sources:

Jones, James Rees. Country and Court: England 1658–1714. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1978.

Seaward, Paul. The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661-1667. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988.