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House of Lords

Membership of the House of Lords was made up of the Lords Spiritual:

• two Archbishops
• 24 Diocesan Bishops

• hereditary peers,
• peers granted peerages by the sovereign on the advice of the Prime Minister
• Law Lords, who are recruited from the ranks of Britain's High Court Judges.

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House of Commons

The House of Commons met at St. Stephen's Chapel, in the Palace of Westminster. After the Act of Union in 1800 the number of members in the House of Commons increased from 558 to 658. There were 465 MPs from England, 48 from Wales, 45 from Scotland and 100 from Ireland. This created problems of space as St. Stephen's Chapel only had 427 seats.

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