House of Lords Scotland and Ireland. The House of Lords was reduced to a largely powerless body, with Cromwell and his supporters in the Commons dominating the Government. On 19 March 1649, the House of Lords was abolished by an Act of Parliament, which declared that "The Commons of England [find] by too long experience that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the people of England." The House of Lords did not assemble again until the Convention Parliament met in 1660 and the monarchy was restored. It returned to its former position as the more powerful chamber of Parliament—a position
Henry Gough (1649–1724) Henry Gough (1649–1724) Sir Henry Gough (3 January 1649 – 24 January 1724) was Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1671/1672, and was elected as a Tory MP in Tamworth in 1685. He was knighted in 1678 for services his grandfather rendered to Charles I in 1642. Gough was the eldest son of John Gough (died 1665) of Old Fallings and his second wife, Bridget, the daughter of Sir John Astley of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1666. He was a student at Middle Temple in 1667 and lived at Perry Hall in Staffordshire. He married Mary, the