Source Provenance

Question 1

Clement Walker

Answer 1

Purged during 1648 Pride’s Purge

Question 2

Bulstrode Whitelocke

Answer 2

Cromwell’s family lawyer - close confidant

Question 3

Dorothy Osborne

Answer 3

Royalist - writing to her royalist husband + lives in parliamentary area

Question 4

Edmund Loudlow

Answer 4

Close with and supported Cromwell until the Protectorate
Regicide - in exile, religious and political radical

Question 5

Venetian ambassador

Answer 5

Venice = Catholic and a Republic, no country outside of England recognised the Rump, also believed Cromwell was doing everything to try to get power (Machiavellian)
Killing the King as very radical

Question 6

John Sandler

Answer 6

Official government individual who was sponsored by Cromwell to get this job when financially insecure

Question 7

Cromwell writing to the “Undeceiving of Deluded and Seduced people”

Answer 7

Responding to Irish Catholic Church leaders - after the massacres

Question 8

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

Answer 8

Moderate royalist, has a role in the Restoration of Charles (was with his in France and helped draft the Declaration of Breda)

Question 9

James Heath

Answer 9

Royalist, writing during Charles II - trial of the regicides + illegal to talk well of Cromwell

Question 10

Richard Baxter

Answer 10

Presbyterian minister

Question 11

Millenarians in Kent

Answer 11

Believed that the world was near its end - radical sect of the Nominated Assembly

Question 12

Samuel Highland - radical lay preacher from Southwark

Answer 12

Radical - a reacher that’s not ordained so doesn’t make a lot of money

Question 13

Digger Winstantley

Answer 13

Leader of the Diggers - created a settlement without private property ownership, very radical but minority, settlement burnt down and destroyed by Cromwell and NMA

Question 14

Adam Martindale

Answer 14

Moderate presbyterian, purged in Pride’s Purge

Question 15

Thurloe

Answer 15

Anti-opposition, intelligentsia - heart of uncovering the activities of the Sealed Knot

Question 16

Henry Cromwell

Answer 16

Cromwell’s 2nd son, would benefit from the Lord Protector position

Question 17

Slingsby Bethel

Answer 17

Religious independent

Question 18

Monck’s Chaplain - Thomas Gumble

Answer 18

Biography = glorifies Monck, overtly positive

Question 19

Allan Broderick

Answer 19

Royalist

Question 20

Oxford/Oxfordshire

Answer 20

Home to Charles’ parliament during the first Civil War - royalist

Question 21

London

Answer 21

Parliamentary

Question 22

Bishop Gilbert Burnett

Answer 22

Royalist writer, was given his Bishop title by Charles II - Bishop so very moralistic

Question 23

John Evelyn

Answer 23

Gentleman royalist writer

Question 24

Whig writers

Answer 24

constitutional settlement was inevitable, on the side of the House of Commons – significant in changing history

Question 25

Samuel Pepys

Answer 25

Convert royalist - opportunist, supported Cromwell during the Republic but switched his allegiance after his death

Question 26

Court records

Answer 26

Don’t tell us if the people were drunk, traumatised or held republican sympathies + whether a minority or not

Question 27

Speeches

Answer 27

Justification, persuasive, convincing

Question 28

Diaries

Answer 28

Private perspective, not meant to be published

Question 29

William Allen

Answer 29

Part of the NMA - betrayal by Charles

Question 30

South West - Dorset

Answer 30

Royalist district suffered at the hands of the parliament during 1st Civil War

Question 31

Lucy Hutchinson

Answer 31

Wife of a regicide/part of the NMA - close with Cromwell, so insider perspective but also sympathetic and attempts to reinstate the reputation of her family - justifying

Question 32

Thomas Scot

Answer 32

Regicide - self justification

Question 33

“Godly men” + “Godly cause”

Answer 33

army