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
Stanisław Krasiński (1585–1649) Stanisław Krasiński (1585–1649) Stanislaw Krasiński (c. 1585–1649) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic) and politician. He was a known jurist: judge of the Ciechanów Land from 1627, konfederacja judge during the interregnum of 1632; elected twice a deputy judge of the Treasury Tribinal in Radom, in 1633, elected as the Commissioner for the Sejm Boundary Commission in Masovia and also the same year, Chief Justice of the Crown Tribunal of Piotrków. Krasiński was Deputy to Sejm in the years 1634, 1635 and 1638, as well as participant of the coronation sejms of 1633 and 1649. He was marshal of the Sejmik