Clare Jackson
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
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I mean, one of the reasons they become interested in the army is because they won't deal with the lords and their petitions are sort of like, we'll really only want to deal with you.
And their vision of a representative sort of institution is a commons based one.
Cromwell is pretty good at speaking whatever he wants to to different audiences.
So he will stand up in Parliament and talk about King, Lords and Commons and then sort of say to the army later, well, I mean, that was in Parliament.
Here I'm talking about a different kind of settlement.
We didn't talk in the programme about the impact of the Second Civil War.
So just after Putney debates, Charles probably tipped off, probably being fed this line that the army is full of dangerous levellers who might think of assassinating him.
escapes from Hampton Court and for a few days nobody knows where he is and then he turns up in the Isle of Wight and then he makes an alliance with the Scots who are by this stage disillusioned with Parliament because they don't feel their Presbyterianism is getting anywhere and the second civil war happens and it is much faster much more brutal and it lasts through late 1647 and 1648 and that radicalises a lot of people who maybe weren't prepared to use that language of Charles being the man of blood at Putney 12 months later absolutely will so by then Cromwell
Whether it's apocryphal, the sort of phrase cruel necessity about the regicide or not.
By that stage, there's many more people who think that this is a man that you cannot negotiate with.
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