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Regicide or Revolution?: What Petitioners Wanted, September 1648 - February 1649

Regicide or Revolution?: What Petitioners Wanted, September 1648 - February 1649

Carlin, Norah

Paperback

Religion General British History

ISBN10: 1916158609
ISBN13: 9781916158603
Publisher: Breviary Stuff Publications
Published: Feb 20 2020
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The dozens of petitions addressed to Parliament and the army in the five months before Charles I's execution are widely recognised as having influenced the events that led to his trial and death. A few phrases or short passages from the texts have frequently been quoted by historians, and some have argued that they represent no more than a propaganda campaign engineered by a small number of political and military leaders. There has never before been a comprehensive examination of these texts, over sixty in number, and only the whole body of them in all its diversity can offer a real prospect of assessing their contribution. They are presented here with as much information as could be gathered about the background and context of each. The evidence suggests that although sometimes prompted from above, all but a few of the texts were produced by groups of activists in meetings and discussion, and gained the support of larger numbers in subscriptions.

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