Convention Parliament (1660) proceeded to conduct the necessary preparation for the Restoration Settlement. These preparations included the necessary provisions to deal with land and funding such that the new régime could operate. Reprisals against the establishment which had developed under Oliver Cromwell were constrained under the terms of the Indemnity and Oblivion Act which became law on 29 August 1660. Nonetheless there were prosecutions against those accused of regicide, the direct participation in the trial and execution of Charles I. The Convention Parliament was dissolved by Charles II on 29 December 1660. The succeeding parliament was elected in May 1661, and was called
Thomas Freke (1660–1721) daughter and coheiress of Thomas Pile of Baverstock, Wiltshire and Thomas Freke and then secondly married Mary Corbett. He had no children and the Hannington estate passed to his brother William, the Socinian author. Thomas Freke (1660–1721) Thomas Freke (17 January 1660 – 1721), of Hannington, Wiltshire, was an English politician. He was born the eldest son of Thomas Freke of Hinton St. Mary, Dorset and educated at Wadham College, Oxford (1675) and the Middle Temple (1675). He succeeded his great-uncle to Hannington Hall in 1684. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Cricklade in the