Against a backdrop of royal poverty and worsening relations with that institution, Charles I of England summoned his third Parliament in January of 1628, and it duly assembled two months later. Relations continued to worse, as Charles was forced by Parliament to accept a Petition of Right, confirming the rights of the individual as against the divine right of the King. Charles hated this concession, which diminished the power of his Crown, but he needed the money he got in exchange too badly to refuse.
Nonetheless, relations between the King and the Parliament continued to decay, and presumably, the king’s intransigence made an impression on the the young Oliver Cromwell, then serving his first stint in Parliament as Member for Huntingdon. By the time, the king dissolved the Parliament the following March, only one recorded speech was given by Cromwell, and that was poorly received by the chamber. Another Parliament would not be called by Charles until 1640.
