Charles II summoned parliament on 20 January 1681, ordering it to meet at Oxford on 21 March. The writ of summons included the praemunientes clause, but the archbishop's mandate, dated at Lambeth on 5 February 1681 and sent out by the bishop of London, summoned the clergy to StPaul 's on 22 March. Evidently lections took place and there was some kind of meeting on the appointed day, as the following remains indicate.

Bishops

A complete list of the bishops survives in the return from the London diocese (dated at Fulham in March 1681), which is in Lambeth Palace Library. It reads as follows:

Dominus Henricus [Compton] Londoniensis episcopus.

Dominus Georgius [Morley] Wintoniensis episcopus.

Dominus Herbertus [Croft] Herefordensis episcopus.

Dominus Seth [Ward] Sarum episcopus.

Dominus Iohannes [Dolben] Roffensis episcopus.

Dominus Anthonius [Sparrow] Norwicensis episcopus.

Dominus Petrus [Gunning] Eliensis episcopus.

Dominus Humfredus [Lloyd] Bangorensis episcopus.

Dominus Willelmus [Lloyd] Asaphensis episcopus.1381

Dominus Thomas [Wood] Coventrensis et Lichensis.

Dominus Guido [Carleton] Cicestrensis episcopus.

Dominus Petrus [Mews] Bathonensis et Wellensis episcopus.

Dominus Willelmus [Beaw] Landavensis episcopus.1382

Dominus Thomas [Barlow] Lincolniensis episcopus.

Dominus Iacobus [Fleetwood] Wigorniensis episcopus.

Dominus Iohannes [Fell] Oxoniensis episcopus.

Dominus Thomas [Lamplugh] Exoniensis episcopus.

Dominus Willelmus [Thomas] Menevensis episcopus.

Dominus Willelmus [Gulston] Bristoliensis episcopus.

Dominus Willelmus [Lloyd] Petriburgensis episcopus.

Sedes episcopalis Gloucestrensis iam vacat.

The return continues with the names of those cited in London diocese as follows:

Edward Stillingfleet, archdeacon of London.

William Jane, archdeacon of Middlesex.

Thomas Turner, archdeacon of Essex.

William Sill, archdeacon of Colchester. William Bell, archdeacon of St Albans.

Winchester

The proxy in Lambeth Palace Library is dated 19 March 1681 and contains the following names:

Richard Meggot, dean.

Henry Bees ton, proctor for the cathedral chapter.

Walter Dayrell, archdeacon of Winchester

John Pearson, archdeacon of Surrey

Thomas Clutterbuck, rector of St Mary, Southampton, proctor for the clergy of the archdeaconry of Winchester.1385

William Hoare, rector of Coulsdon, proctor for the clergy of the archdeaconry of Surrey.

Chichester

In Chichester the clergy of that archdeaconry elected George May on 25 February 1681.