This volume contains the debates on the passage of the Act of Continuance that assured the parliament that it would not be adjourned, prorogued, or dissolved in conjunction with the Strafford business. On May 10th that act was passed by royal commission, as was the act of attainder against the Earl of Strafford, thus concluding with his impeachment trial and assuring the continuance of parliament. Strafford was beheaded on May 12th and the subsidy bill, providing further relief for the King's army, passed into law on the 13th. On May 11th, in between the passage of the attainder and the...

Volume 7 is the last volume of the edition of Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament compiled by the Yale Center for Parliamentary History and edited by Maija Jansson.BR> It will contain all of the Appendix material referred to in the earlier volumes. It will also contain the Lists of Members, both by family name and constituency, the List of Committees, Table of Bills, List of Petitions, List of Joint Conferences and Reports, and the Comprehensive Index to volumes 1 through 6. Maija Jansson is Director of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History.