1649-53
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- Created on: 12-05-15 11:47
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- 1649-53
- Religion
- Fifth Monarchists (Capp) became a pressure groups who wanted Godly reform, influenced Ireton and Cromwell
- Religiously conservative; Mosaic Act and Blasphemy Act condemed by John Milton
- Politics
- 'Self-perpetuating' (Smith) The Rump was made up of an elite and had been sitting for 11 years. 'You have sat here too long for the good that you do' (Cromwell)
- Angered Army (Woolrych) with recruiter election and plan to downsize.
- Politically conservative; failed significant constitutional reform. John Lilburne criticised it as unrepresentative in 'England's New Chains Discovered'
- Expensive war from 1651 Navigation Act but did create stability in Ireland and Scotland
- Historians
- Barnard argues the Rump did well in context (zeitgeist- chaotic)
- Morrill produced figures showing only 3 acts on religion and 5 on law made after 1649
- Religion
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