Why did they fail to reach a settlement 1646-49
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- Why did they fail to reach a settlement 1646-49
- Religion
- The Levellers were significantly influenced by religion and in their Whitehall and Putney Debates created divisions in Army
- Radical sects such as Diggers (Kishalnksy- over exaggerated) only served to heighten the hysteria surrounding the settlement
- Thomas Harrison at Windsor Prayer meeting, 1648 - 'man of blood'
- Radical sects such as Diggers (Kishalnksy- over exaggerated) only served to heighten the hysteria surrounding the settlement
- The Levellers were significantly influenced by religion and in their Whitehall and Putney Debates created divisions in Army
- Politics
- Factions in Parliament made settlement impossible
- Political Presbytarians were politically conservative and as Ashton points out, their differences were much more than religion.
- Political Independents were more politically radical, and were naturally aligned with Army.
- Charles and his intransigence
- In 1646 he was in a strong position (Young), which a majority of Presbytarians in Parliament
- But he ruined his advantage by refusing the Newcastle Propositions and its many rewrites, as well as the Army's lenient Head's of Proposals.
- In 1646 he was in a strong position (Young), which a majority of Presbytarians in Parliament
- Army
- Politicized by the Levellers, a pressure groups devoted to social, political and economic change
- Owed three million in arrears- Parl did not promise indemnity and in May 1647 they only granted 8 weeks with disbandment
- Factions in Parliament made settlement impossible
- Religion
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