The Vote of No Addresses was a measure passed on 17 January 1648 by the English Long Parliament

Long Parliament

The Long Parliament was made on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members, and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and...

 when they broke off negotiations with King Charles I

Charles I of England

Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

. The vote was in response to the news that Charles I was entering into an engagement with the Scots. By September the Second Civil War

Second English Civil War

The Second English Civil War was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1652 and also include the First English Civil War and the...

 had been fought, the Royalists, the English Presbyterians, and their Scottish allies had been defeated by the New Model Army

New Model Army

The New Model Army of England was formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War, and was disbanded in 1660 after the Restoration...

. The Army now in the ascendancy, wished to resume negotiations with the king so Parliament repealed the measure in September 1648.

Further reading

• William Godwin (1826). History of the Commonwealth of England: From Its Commencement, to the Restoration of Charles the Second, Volume 2, Chapter XVI, H. Colburn, pp. 492–496.
• Stanley Leathes et al (1910). The Cambridge modern history, Volume 12, CUP Archive. pp. 347–353