Aug 28 Buck assasinated in Portsmouth by a disgrunted sailor (John Felton). CI recalled P in Jan 29, leaders hoped to make progress now Buck was removed.
P, led by Eliot, criticised both CI's methods of collecting money and his Arminianism. March 29 Eliot issued the Three Resolutions:
- Denouncement of CI's Arminian advisers.
- Statement announcing that the levying of T&P unacceptable.
- Those who paid T&P were labelled enemies of the Kingdom.
CI ordered P to be adjouonred before the Resolutions had been read. Speaker of the Commons refused to delay it. Group of MPs led by Holles and Eliot held the speaker in his chair until they had been passed, amid shouting and confusion.
Royal proclamation drawn whereby CI announded the formal dissolution of P in 29. Eliot and 8 of his allies were arrested and imprisoned. P would not meet for another 11 years.
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