Collections Flashcards by Henry Yates

A Representation of the Army

14 June 1647

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Charles enters Parliamentary custody (Date?)

30 January 1647

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Earliest evidence of petitioning in the New Model Army (Date?)

18 March 1647

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House of Commons orders Fairfax to suppress petitioning in the ranks (Date?)

27 March 1647

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Colonel Harley informs Parliament that petitioning has continued despite orders to suppress (Date?)

29 March 1647

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Declaration of Dislike (Date?)

30 March 1647

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Agitators begin to appear among the soldiery (Two Months?)

Apr-May 1647

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Parliament votes to disband large sections of the army (Two Dates?)

25/27 May 1647

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Council at War approves the Solemn Engagement

29 May 1647

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Solemn Engagement approved unanimously at Newmarket (Date?)

5 June 1647

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Newsletter from Headquarters, Reading (Date?)

17 July 1647

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Lilburne writes to agitators warning them of “the study, labour and practice of some officers”

16 July 1647

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Richard Overton publishes An Appeale from the Regenerative Representative Body warning agitators to “be cautious and wary”

17 July 1647

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Heads of Proposals presented the General Council of the Army

17 July 1647

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Humble Address of the Agitators demands exclusion of Pelham’s Parliament MPs

2 August 1647

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The Case of the Army Truly Stated - accused officers, demanded “all freeborn at age 21” eligible to vote

15 October 1647

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Agreement of the People - “proportional according to the number of inhabitants”

28 October 1647

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Act Abolishing the House of Lords

19 March 1649

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Pride’s Purge

6 December 1648

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Commons votes for a court to try to the king

1 January 1649

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House of Lords rejects the Commons’ vote for a court to try the king

2 January 1649

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Commons assumes sole legislative authority

4 January 1649

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Execution of Charles I

30 January 1649

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Debate on the future of the House of Lords, de facto abeyance, abolition bill to be drafted

5-6 February 1649

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Officers Agreement of the People

15 January 1649

First Agreement of the People - "instructing the nation (so be it not compulsive)", "not at all entrusted to us by any human power"

28 October 1647

Officers Agreement of the People presented by the committee of 16 (4 officers, 4 city independents, 4 commons, 4 levellers)

11 December 1648

Ireton argues to the Officers Council for "the civil magistrate" "spirituall things as civill thinges"

14 December 1648

Final Draft of the Officers Agreement presented to Parliament

15 January 1649

Declaration by the Lord General and the Council upon Dissolution of the Long Parliament

22 April 1653

Cromwell complains to Whitelocke about "their delays of business and design to perpetuate themselves" (Month?)

November 1652

Cromwell dissolves the Rump with Colonel Harrison

20 April 1653

Clarke's newsletter claims the Rump "was dissolved with as little noyse as can bee imagined"

23 April 1653

Cromwell establishes a 13 man council of state

29 April 1653

First meeting of the 140 strong Nominated Assembly

4 July 1653

Instrument of Government

16 December 1653

Vote on the removal of tithe beneficiaries, two vote margin, measure defeated

10 December 1653

Speaker Rous leads a walkout of 50 MPs, resigning the powers of the Nominated Assembly to Cromwell

12 December 1653

Instrument of Government adopted by the Council of Officers

15 December 1653

Cromwell appointed Lord Protector

16 December 1653

War declared on the Dutch following the skirmish with Marten de Tromp

10 July 1652

Treaty of Westminster signed following an ambiguous English victory over the Dutch

15 April 1654

Ratification of the Treaty of Westminster

22 April 1654

Debate in Council on the Western Design

20 April 1654

Debate in the Protectors Council over whether or not to attempt the Western Design

20 July 1654

Invasion force (30 ships 8000 troops) sail for the West Indies

14 December 1654

Campaign on Hispaniola begins

14 April 1655

End of the Campaign on Hispaniola

4 May 1655

Jamaica taken during the Western Design

12 May 1655

Thurloe writes to Henry Cromwell about the elections for the Second Protectorate Parliament

12 August 1656

First commissions are issued to Major Generals

21 September 1655

Revised commissions go out to the Major Generals

11 October 1655

Major Generals begin their work in the localities

2 November 1655

Announcement made for elections and a second protectorate parliament

26 June 1656

William Goffe warns Thurloe of "unquiet spiritt of discontented men"

8 August 1656

John Desborough pledges to "encourage the honest sober people" in a letter to Thurloe

12 August 1656

Elections for the Second Protectorate Parliament - cries of "no swordsmen, no decimators"

20 August 1656

Second Protectorate Parliament meets for the first time

17 September 1656

Militia Bill and Decimation Tax Bill both announced in Parliament

25 December 1656

Debates on the Militia and Decimation Tax Bills, both ultimately defeated

7-29 January 1657

Cromwell issues the Ordinance for Triers (38 strong commission with 5 added in September)

20 March 1654

Ordinance for Ejectors

28 August 1654

First Protectorate Parliament fails to approve any of Cromwell's 84 ordinances

3 September 1654 - 22 January 1655

Second Protectorate Parliament ratifies the Triers and Ejectors Ordinances

28 April 1657

Opening of the second session of the Second Protectorate Parliament - "you have now a godly ministry; you have a knowing ministry"

20 June 1658

Christopher Packe presents a Remonstrance to Parliament

23 February 1657

Cromwell meets with 100 army officers - "he loved not the title, a feather in a hat"

27 February 1657

Formal presentation of the Humble Petition and Advice to the Protector

31 March 1657

Cromwell gives speeches to Parliament asking for more time to respond to the offer of kingship

3, 8 April 1657

Cromwell meets with a conference of 99 MPs hears legal arguments by Whitelocke and Broghill

11, 13, 20, 21 April 1657

Cromwell formally declines the offer of the crown "not to be convinced of the necessity of that thing"

8 May 1657

Ratification of the modified Humble Petition

25 May 1657

Cromwell requests an additional £600,000 on top of the Humble Petition

21 April 1657

Commons approves a three year measure to increase revenue by £600,000

24 April 1657

Cromwell is installed as Lord Protector for the second time

26 June 1657

Joyce meets with Cromwell at the latters home in London

31 May 1647

Cornet Joyce arrives at Holdenby

2 June 1647

Cornet Joyce secures Holdenby, tells Charles that they will move the following day

3 June 1647

Joyce departs Holdenby with Charles, rests overnight in Huntingdon

4 June 1657

Joyce is ordered to remain west of Cambridge, Charles is kept at Childerly Hall

5 June 1647

Officers of the New Model meet Charles for the first term

7 June 1647

First day of the Reading debates

16 July 1647

Lilburne writes to the agitators warning of 'the study, labour and practice of some officers'

16 July 1647

Richard Overton publishes An Appeale, warning the agitators to 'be cautious and wary'

17 July 1647

Heads of Proposals referred to a committee

18 July 1647

Heads of Proposals submitted to the King

23 July 1647

Presbyterian mob storms Parliament

26 July 1647

Army restores the Independent members to Parliament

6 August 1647

The Case of the Army Truly Stated

15 October 1647

The First Agreement of the People

28 October 1647

First day of the Putney debates, whether the army can break engagements

28 October 1647

Second day of the Putney debates, universal manhood suffrage discussed

29 October 1647

Grandees order the end of the Putney debates

8 November 1647

King escapes from custody of Hampton Court

11 November 1647

Corkbush field mutiny

15 November 1647

Charles recaptured at Carisbrooke Castle

14 November 1647

Commons passes vote of no addresses

3 Jan 1648

Lords passes a vote of no addresses

17 January 1648

Parliament repeals the vote of no addresses

24 August 1648

Negotiations begin for the Newport Treaty

18 September 1648

Newport negotiations break down

27 October 1648

Parliamentary commissioners leave Newport without a deal

27 November 1648

Remonstrance of the Army calls for 'Justice upon the Capitall Authors'

16 November 1648

Parliament votes to continue negotiations with the King

5 December 1648