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PARLIAMENTUM. u Lat. A legisla• tive body in general or the English par• liament in particular...:..Parliamentum diabolicum, A parlia• men~ held at Coventry, 38 Hen. VI., wherein Edward, Earl, of March, (afterwards King Edward IV.,) and many of the chief nobility were attainted, was so called;,but the acts then made were annulled by the succeeding parlia• ment. Jacob. - Parliamentum indoctum, Unleamed or lack-learning parliament. A name given to a parliament held at Coventry in the 1ixth year of Henr:r· IV. under an ordinance requiri11.g tllat no lawyer should be chosen knight, citizen, or burgeBB; ''bz. reason whereof," says Sir Edward Oqke; this parliament wu fruitle , and never a Jood law mtde, thereat.•' 4 Inst. 48; 1 BL Coll!,Ill. 177..:..Pa:dia-.._tiaa,, 'wail.um. A parlia1®11.t· a emb~ [s. 880]