events and dates 49-53

Question 1

creation and form of council of state

Answer 1

feb 1649
- created by radical rumpers
- 1/3 military associations and swear an oath to support the regicide, abolish the house of lords
- included 14 regicides

Question 2

cromwell re admits presbyterians into rump

Answer 2

feb 1649
- indipendents out voted and therefore rump is less radical

Question 3

lilburnes new agreement of the people

Answer 3

may 1649
- challenges rumps lack of religious reform

Question 4

actions in ireland

Answer 4

• 20,000 NMA troops leave summer 1649
• drogheda september
• wexford october
• death of 5000

Question 5

rump demands oath of engagement

Answer 5

january 1650
- just 19/41 council of state members took it

Question 6

charles crowned king by scots

Answer 6

june 1650

Question 7

cromwells invation of scoland

Answer 7

victory at dunbar september 1650
- just 20 english died compared to 3000 scots

Question 8

anglo dutch war

Answer 8

started 1651 due to trade war

Question 9

meeting of the army council

Answer 9

august 1652
- declaration of the army for the dissolving of the parliament
- called for radicalism and elections

Question 10

removal of MPs from commons

Answer 10

• april 20th 1653
• rump voting to hold elections and cromwell prohibited this

Question 11

creation and construction of NA

Answer 11

• june 1653
• 140 godly men
• included members from scotland and ireland
• 18 had sat in rump and 28 had served as sherrifs, 4/5 were gentry

Question 12

charles invades england

Answer 12

september 1651
- defeated at worcester
- royalists outnumbered 2:1

Question 13

rump abolishes house of lords

Answer 13

march 1649

Question 14

rump acts for godly reformation

Answer 14

spring and summer 1650
- propagation of the gospel
- suppression of sins
- act against blasphemous and aetheistical opinions - 50 executed

• acts aimed at promoting puritanical freedom but also limiting the influence and growth of radical sects – divisions

Question 15

toleration act

Answer 15

september 1650
- abolished need for people to go to church if they attended some form of religious service once a week

Question 16

rump raises assesmant tax

Answer 16

december 1652
- raised by 30,000
- 12x that of ship tax

Question 17

how many times had rump delayed electiosn

Answer 17

• twice, but might have planned to

Question 18

rump distruction of digger commune

Answer 18

1650 - sent NMA to distroy commune at Hampstead Heath

Question 19

millenarian petition

Answer 19

• wrote to influence choice of NA against moderate and for radical
• highlights how division would eventually lead to disruption

Question 20

issue of tythes in NA

Answer 20

• challenged by radicals
• lead to dissolution of NA in december 1653

Question 21

evidence that cromwell used NA to further his own abition hence its failure

Answer 21

• lack of instructions given to NA
• prominant role he and the NMA had in the dissolution of the NA
• crowned LP 6 days after end, lambert had been writing instrument since october

Question 22

claims that NA was experienced hence it sfaulure

Answer 22

4/5 were gentry
89/140 had been JPs
- comments about low social status of NA highlight the prejudice of the author

Question 23

claims that the dominance of anabaptists hence its failure

Answer 23

not supported by
- cromwells refusal to take the advice of the millenarian petition
- just 12/140 members were fith monarchists

Question 24

evidence that division between moderates and radicals led to failure

Answer 24

• dissagreement over tythes - representative of division
• issues over common law v roman law
• exploited by cromwell? - managed to pass 30 laws in just 6 months

Question 25

evidence of rumps lazyness

Answer 25

- average attendance was 50-60 out of 211 - just 12 committeees were established 1653 compared to 152 in 1649 - 10 acts passed in 1653 compared to 125 in 1649