1646-49 source questions Flashcards
Source question structure (need to update)
introduction
paragraph 1, 2 and 3
F Focus on the question
Exp Explains why the source supports/not
Ok uses knowledge not in the source
P comment on provenance
- specific to the source
- backed by factual detail
J makes an interim judgement
Conclusion
The newcastle propostions
July 1646
- agree to the establishment of a Presbyterian State Church
- give up control of his armies to Parliament
- dismiss ministers
- Charles procrastinated answering for two years
The seizure of the King by Cornet Joyce and cavalry
Date: June 1647
- Cromwell, angered by rumours that Parliament and the Scots were
intriguing with the king
- Holmby House in Northamptonshire to seize the king and so remove him from Parliament’s control
- He was taken first to Newmarket and then to London where he was confined at Hampton Court.
The heads of proposals
Date: August 1647 Ireton presented
- army wished to take things beyond simply the relations of monarch and
Parliament. In return for restoring the royal family, the Council required
- Parliaments to be called every two years
- control of the army and navy to be in Parliament’s hands
- bishops no longer to have authority in civil matters
- the use of the Book of Common Prayer to be no longer mandatory in services advocating religious tolerance for Anglicans and Puritans.
- an Act of Indemnity to be passed absolving the army’s troops from any
supposed offences committed during the war.
- Charles did not accept these either
The kind escapes army custody through a window at hapmton court palace
- feld to Isle of whight in nov 1647
- began negotiations with the scots
The engagment
Dec 1647
- After espace Charles began negotiations with the Scots.
The enganment:
- Charles to be restored to the position he had held before the breakdown of
negotiations with Parliament in 1642.
- Charles promised to adopt Presbyterianism as the State religion
and to suppress sectarianism.
- When the army learned of the Engagement it broke off all negotiations with Charles.
- there were still Presbyterians in Parliament who believed
a compromise could be reached with Charles
The putney debates
Oct 1647
The vote of no adressess
Date: Jan 1648 Long Parliament broke off negotiations with King Charles I. The vote was in response to the news that Charles I was entering into an engagement with the Scots.
Pride purge
Date: Dec 1648 Colonal pride with the NMA blocked the house of commons all MPs regared hostile to the army wernt let in, 110 excluded and 47 arrests
The army remonstrance
Date:
Windsor pryayer meeting
Date:
The decleration of dislike
The agree,ent of the peole ed.1
The representation of the army
The NMA elect their first and second set of agitators
Date: April 1647 the army elected some agitators to speck on thier behalf
