1646-49 - Failure to Reach a Settlement
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- Created on: 12-05-15 11:30
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- 1646-49
- Charles
- Intransigent and 'uncommunicative' (Farr)
- Rejected Parliaments, Armys and Levellers settlement propositions
- Made agreement with Scots and Ireland (Engagement, 1647)
- Army
- Angered by Charles' rejection of Head of Proposals, 1647
- Angered by Parl. only promising 8 weeks arrears (May 1647) when owed £3 million. Also needed Indemnity Act which they were not granted in settlement
- Angered by repeal of Vote of No Addresses and Newport Treaty (Newcastle Propositions)
- Parliament
- Factions of Presbyterians and Independents
- Radicals
- The Diggers and Ranters came to represent a 'breakdown of society' (Farr)
- Kishlanksy argues Diggers were exaggerated
- Thomas Harrison and Fifth Monarchists- at Windsor Prayer Meeting, 1648, called Cahrles 'that man of blood'- first mention of regicide
- Levellers: Putney & Whitehall Debates
- The Diggers and Ranters came to represent a 'breakdown of society' (Farr)
- Charles
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