Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Radicalism
- London
- What ideas?
- August 1643- Death, loss of property of war blamed
on London
- Royalist: Berkenhead (Aug 1643) says how London to blame for dissolving
Monarchy, enslaving law and ruining country
- Pro-Parliament pamphlet: July 1648: London was the first to oppose oppression, first leader towards freedom
- Long Parliament issues
- Definition of consent in terms of the king and people
- Debate to understand commoners wants
- Authority and reason in society
- Government affairs becoming more open: king's advisors
- Governing elite extend political discussion to the people
- Managing politicised population: use to push policies, control to prevent social breakdown
- City council radicals place people, not king at centre of political process. ****
- How were they expressed?
- In Pamphlets
- Direct action: London Crowd January 1642
- Standoff at Turnham Green: Lord Brooke rallies London merchants
- Wives Billingsgate fishmongers marched behind goddess of war for Parliament
- In the Long Parliament
- By petition: 1643 City Council 'Petition and Remonstrance' ****
- Pampheleteering
- What ideas?
- Discredit Charles/Royalists
- 2: Intro: King's counsels wholly managed by the queen
- 2: Suspend anti-catholic legislation, bring Catholic army, from King to Marquis of Ormond
- 3: Attacking New Model Army religious radicalism
- 4:Defending the true reformed Protestant religion
- 5: Presbyterian puritans argue against
advocates of form of Congregationalism
from New World
- 6: Preferring compulsory membership
of reformed state church vs religious
liberty
- Opinionated commentary and satirical
cartoons criticising either side
- How were they expressed?
- 1: Newspapers
- 10+ titles, weekly basis
- 2: The King's Cabinet Opened
- Fled Naseby 1645
- Pro-Parliament printers publish within month
- Pamphlets
- 3: such as Thomas Edward's
- 4: 1640-43, 400 pamphlets
- 5: By 1643
- 6: By 1647
- New Model Army
- What ideas?
- 2: Subvert the church
- Richard Baxter
- Puritan zealots ie Cromwell
- 1: Oppose the king
- Civilian religious separatism
- How were they expressed?
- 2: By fighting against "the Antichrist" or Papist soldiers
- 1: By fighting him on the battlefield
- Congregational Church at Dagger Lane in Hull, founded by
local garrison chaplain John Canne
- Definitions
- A departure from tradition
- Support for complete political or
social reform