The Convention Parliament was a parliament in English history which, owing to an abeyance of the Crown, assembled without formal summons by the Sovereign.[1] Sir William Blackstone applied the term to only two English Parliaments, those of 1660 and 1689,[2] but some sources have also applied the name to the parliament of 1399.[3][4]
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Convention". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 45.
- ^ Blackstone 1867, pp. 109–110
- ^ Richardson & Sayles 1981, p. 23.
- ^ Finkelman 2006, p. 690
