ABSTRACT
Parliament was an established part of the King's government but it was an intermit-tent part, called for special purposes, usually the granting of money. Originally it had been the King's most important court but, by the sixteenth century, the function of settling legal problems had devolved to the conciliar courts (see Chapter 7: Central courts) and Parliament was not used for trials. The Reformation Parliament of 1529–36 signalled enormous changes in the nature and function of Parliament, both because the monarch chose to implement a revolution through it and also because the legislation it produced incorporated Parliament fully into the system of govern-ment of Church and state.
