Opposition to the protectorate
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- Created on: 20-04-15 20:04
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- Opposition to the Protectorate
- Republicans were against giving Cromwell the crown
- Acceptance of the Humble Petition increased the emphasis on Cromwell
- Royalist opposition
- John Penruddock's rising
- 100 supporters turned up to rendezvous at Marston Moore for attack on Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Rebels held Sailsbury, marched into Blindfold, & retreated into Devon
- Cromwell introduced rule of major generals
- John Penruddock's rising
- The Sealed Knot
- Coordinate royalist opposition
- Action Party emerged for uprisings around England
- Miles Sindercombe's Assassination Plot
- Plan to assassinate Cromwell
- Too difficult to escape,so abandoned it
- Military Opposition
- Three Colonels' Petition
- Announced the protectorate, calling for a return to the 'good old cause'
- those in the army opposed to the instrument based on their disagreement on the power given to the protector (cromwell)
- noted that cromwell's siuccessor might use the army to totally destroyparliaments
- The Army and Kingship? NMA
- most significant
- politicalthreat
- reminder of the perspective of the 'saints' ge respected
- a more concerted campaign of the army opposition led to a petition of Cromwell
- Three Colonels' Petition
- Republicans were against giving Cromwell the crown
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