| Recovery of Basis, Recovery Period, Recovery Fund | |
| Recruitment, Recruitment Bonus, Recycling |
In 1641 Charles I gave his consent to a bill which declared that the Long Parliament could not be dissolved save by its own consent. After 1645 the absentees were replaced by ‘recruiters’, returned at by-elections, and by March 1647 244 new members had been brought in. By the time of its dissolution, fewer than 100 members of the pre-war House of Commons were in attendance.