realm", but it was the barons in council who would represent them. During the reign of John's son, Henry III (), meetings of the great council began to be called parliament from the French first used in the late 11th century with the meaning of parley or conversation. The Parliament of England would continue to develop in the reign of Henry's son Edward I (). Tudor and Stuart eras According to The Oxford History of England, Henry VII summoned the Magnum Concilium half a dozen times in the last years of the fifteenth century, but thereafter it fell into disuse. In the autumn of 1640 Charles I summoned the first Magnum Concilium in generations, having dissolved the Short Parliament and suffered defeats in the Bishops' Wars against Scotland. The Concilium offered Charles a guaranteed loan of £200,000 sterling to pay the army and attempted unsuccessfully to negotiate with the Scots, but it declined to resume its ancient governing role, and urged Charles instead to summon a new Parliament. Since then the Concilium has not met. Proposed revival In 2008, Christopher Russell Bailey, 5th Baron Glanusk, suggested that the time had come for a recall of the Magnum Concilium, since hereditary peers had lost their right to sit in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999. Notes References Bibliography Latin political words and phrases Government of England Political history of medieval England