• Source: 3rd Parliament of Great Britain

      • The 3rd Parliament of Great Britain was summoned by Queen Anne on 27 September 1710 and assembled on the 25 November 1710. Under the Triennial Act, the Parliament was due to expire, if not dissolved sooner, at the end of the term of three years from the first meeting. In the event it was actually dissolved on 8 August 1713.
      The new House of Commons comprised 346 Tories, 196 Whigs and 14 others, which represented a Tory landslide. This was largely due to anti-Government feelings caused by the trial of Henry Sacheverell for verbally attacking dissenters and a growing anti-war sentiment. William Bromley, Member of Parliament for Oxford University, was installed as Speaker of the House of Commons.
      At the start of the second session the terms of a peace deal with France were defeated by the Whigs. Harley created 12 new Peers in the House of Lords, nicknamed "Harley's Dozen", to forestall a similar problem there. Harley then adroitly engineered condemnation of Britain's allies in the peace talks and by the end of the second session had got decisive backing for his policy of acting alone.
      Completing the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht delayed the third session until April 1713. When it did reconvene there were open splits in the Tory party on a number of issues. Viscount Bolingbroke, a Secretary of State, took the opportunity to seek the leadership of the Party.
      The Parliament was dissolved on 8 August 1713.


      Notable acts passed in the Parliament


      New Churches in London and Westminster Act 1710
      Gaming Act 1710
      Lease of Exeter Castle Act 1710
      Municipal Offices Act 1710
      Toleration Act 1711 (aka Occasional Conformity Act)
      Princess Sophia's Precedence Act 1711
      Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711
      Naturalization Act 1711
      Church Patronage (Scotland) Act 1711
      Churches in London and Westminster Act 1711
      East India Company Act 1711
      Pleading Act 1711
      West Riding Inclosures Act 1712
      Moss Troopers Act 1712
      Mortuaries (Bangor, &c.) Abolition Act 1713
      Established Church Act 1713 (aka Schism Act)
      Simony Act 1713
      Presentation of Benefices Act 1713
      Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1713
      Repair of Breach in Thames Bank at Dagenham: Coal Duties Act 1713


      See also


      1710 British general election
      List of MPs elected in the 1710 British general election
      Oxford-Bolingbroke ministry
      List of acts of the 1st session of the 3rd Parliament of Great Britain
      List of acts of the 2nd session of the 3rd Parliament of Great Britain
      List of acts of the 3rd session of the 3rd Parliament of Great Britain
      List of parliaments of Great Britain


      Sources




      External links


      "Third Parliament of Great Britain: First session - begins 25/11/1710". British History Online. Retrieved 8 November 2017.

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