ctober, November, and January, though a number of sessions were held after Easter. Parliament was often summoned to meet on a Monday, but it wa also often postponed because insufficient lords and commons had arrived. Westminster Palace was the usual place of meeting, and a summons to meet elsewhere was greeted with suspicion. the length of the session varied widely, from little over a week in 1415 at the time of the Agincourt campaign to 23 weeks in 1406. The average number of weeks of session a year was between five and six, and both figures were significantly higher than in the past (Brown 111-112).
Membership by the end of the fourteenth century was largely regularized in its classic form.
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