April 29th 1450

Parliament Reconvened in Leicester 

Parliament resumes in Leicester on Wednesday 29^th April, after extricating itself from a increasingly volatile London, on March 30^th. The official version of why the parliament was moved was to avoid  plague, but in all reality, the violence shown to the Duke of Suffolk, advisors thought it prudent to move to a more “Lancastrian” area.

The parliament would sit until June 7^th although sources vary between 5^th and 7^th. There were three writs issued on June 7^th making that date the most likeliest of dates parliament was formally closed. However, on June 6^th The Duke of Buckingham and the Earls of Oxford, Devon, and Arundel were commissioned to go “against the traitors and rebels in Kent and to punish and arrest the same”.

It can be seen by these facts that the dates could easily be mixed up, leading one historian, Bertram Wolffe, to suggest that parliament was not so much dissolved as faded away.