Bundesrat. Upper house of Swiss, German, Austria Parliaments.

Bundestag. Lower House of German Parliament 1949-. Elects Chancellor.

Canterbury Christmas. 1647. Parliament bans Christmas celebration.

Catholic Emancipation Act. 1829. Catholics readmitted to English Parliament. Test Act. O’Connell.

Cavalier Parliament. 1661-79. Royalist. Repressive laws against Puritans and Catholics.

Charles I. 1600-49. King of Great Britain and Ireland. 1625-. Attempted to rule without Parliament. Defeated in Civil War. Beheaded.

Convention Parliament. 1660. Restored monarchy. William and Mary 1689.

Dail Eireann. 1919. Irish national parliament.

Defender of the Faith. 1521. Title conferred by Pope Leo X on Henry VIII. Withdrawn after Act of Supremacy. Reconfirmed by Parliament, 1544 for all succeeding monarchs.

Devil’s Parliament. 1459. Held at Coventry.

Drunken Parliament. 1661. Scotland.

Duma. 1906-17. Russian parliament created by Nicholas II after Revolution.

Dunces Parliament. 1404. Coventry. No lawyers.

Eliot, John. 1592-1632. English Puritan leader. Parliamentary liberties.

English Civil War. 1642-9. King vs Parliament. Charles beheaded. Monarchy abolished. Commonwealth. Cromwell. Covenanters.

Erfurt Parliament. 1850. Austrian opposition causes withdrawal of Prussian plan for German Unification.

Fairfax, Thomas. 1612-71. English Parliamentarian Civil War general. Commander-in-Chief of New Model Army. Victor at Marston Moor.

Five Hundred, Council of. 1795. Lower House of French Parliament.

Fronde. 1648-53. Revolt of French parliamentarians vs king’s power. Failure encouraged Absolutism.

Good Parliament. 1376. Reforms against Edward III. Nullified 1377.

Grand Remonstrance. 1641. Grievances presented to Charles I by Long Parliament.

Grattan, Henry. 1746-1820. Irish independence leader. Irish Parliament 1782. Poyning’s Law repeal movement.

Gunpowder Plot. Nov 5, 1605. Conspiracy of Catholics against James I. Betrayed, the Houses of Parliament were not blown up. Guy Fawkes is burned in effigy each year. Catesby.

Hampden, John. 1594-1643. English parliamentary leader.

Hansard. 1774-. Official British parliamentary report.

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