Convention Parliament (1660) Convention Parliament (1660) The Convention Parliament (25 April 1660 – 29 December 1660) followed the Long Parliament that had finally voted for its own dissolution on 16 March that year. Elected as a "free parliament", i.e. with no oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth or to the monarchy, it was predominantly Royalist in its membership. It assembled for the first time on 25 April 1660. After the Declaration of Breda had been received, Parliament proclaimed on 8 May that King Charles II had been the lawful monarch since the death of Charles I in January 1649. The Convention Parliament then
Thomas Danby (died 1660) He supported the King and was disabled from sitting in parliament in September 1642. He was fined £4,780 for his loyalty. Danby died in London and was buried in York Minster. Danby married Katherine Wandesford, elder daughter of Christopher Wandesford, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and Alice Osborne; she died in 1645. They had sixteen children, of whom ten, eight boys and two girls, survived infancy. Their son Thomas Danby (1631–1667) was the first Mayor of Leeds. Thomas Danby (died 1660) Sir Thomas Danby (1610 – 5 August 1660) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of