The first English Parliament is often considered to be the " Model Parliament " ( held in 1295 ), which included archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, and representatives of the shires and boroughs of it.
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In the 13th century the town was a more important port than Kingston upon Hull, further up the Humber, and was represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, but as the sandbanks shifted the town was swept away.
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"' North Wiltshire "'is a Chippenham "'or the "'Northern Division of Wiltshire "'and as Chippenham dates to the original countrywide Parliament, the Model Parliament, this period is covered in more detail in that article.
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"' Tregony "'was a rotten borough in Cornwall which was represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, and returned two Members of Parliament to the English and later British Parliament continuously from 1562 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
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*" To obtain financial support, Edward summoned a precedent-setting assembly known as the Model Parliament, which included barons, clergy, knights, and burgesses . "-I don't think it was known at the time as the Model Parliament, was it?
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*" To obtain financial support, Edward summoned a precedent-setting assembly known as the Model Parliament, which included barons, clergy, knights, and burgesses . "-I don't think it was known at the time as the Model Parliament, was it?
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The Model Parliament created a precedent, whereby each " successor of a baron " ( which includes Lords Spiritual ) who received a writ to the parliament of 1295 " had a legal right to receive a writ . " However, that strictly hereditary right was not recognised formally until 1387.
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This set the scene for the so-called " Model Parliament " of 1295 adopted by Edward II, Parliament had been separated into two Houses : one including the nobility and higher clergy, the other including the knights and burgesses, and no law could be made, nor any tax levied, without the consent of both Houses as well as of the Sovereign.
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She had been a President Winnipeg Council of Women, an organizer of Provincial Council of Women, a member and delegate to international meetings for the University Women's Club, Chairman of the Arts and Letters Committee of the National Council of Women, a member of the Women s International League for Peace and Freedom, an organizer of the SHARE and Open-Door Club for Canadian Mental Health Association, founder of the Indian-M�tis Friendship Centres, organizer of Women's Model Parliaments.
