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Bonfire Night and Jacobean Parliament

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Inigo who designed the Banqueting House at Whitehall (5)
What the Commons controlled, proverbially, when bargaining over royal supply (5)
Vault beneath the upper chamber, leased by the conspirators in March 1605 (10)
An affirmative division vote that sounds like 'I' (3)
What a bill becomes upon royal assent (3)
The Parliament that first met in November 1640 had this name and, fittingly, exceptional staying power (4)
Formal command that sets a parliamentary by-election in motion (4)

Macbeth's Porter imagines admitting this slippery speaker, who could 'swear in both the scales' (11)
The Great Contract of 1610 offered it regular income in exchange for feudal revenues (5)
The dynastic question resolved when Elizabeth I was followed by her Scottish kinsman (10)
The Great ___ authenticated royal business, though its namesake swims (4)
Feudal reversion when a tenant died heirless, one source of early Stuart royal revenue (7)
What James VI and I achieved for two monarchies in 1603, but not for their legislatures (5)