Clare Jackson

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In Our Time · The Levellers · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

But the English parliamentarians probably wouldn't have had such a decisive military victory without the Scots at Marston Moor.

And yet the Scots also refused to accept the regicide and immediately crowned the Prince of Wales, Charles II.

And that poses a massive security threat to the new republic, forcing Cromwell not only to have a Scottish campaign, but then also an Irish campaign.

So this is absolutely Three Kingdoms.

Yes.

I mean, in some ways you could see Cromwell using leveller interest quite cynically at that point when the bigger enemy is the Presbyterian majority to try and

get more support for that independent view of a Congregationalist outcome that isn't going to sign up to something that looks like a Scots Presbyterian kind of clerisy.

So it is very much in Cromwell's interest to engage and preserve army discipline and

There are elements of the Putney debates that don't speak of hostility and suppression.

And maybe that's where the shock of the brutal suppressions at Ware and then again at Burford and places, you know, come into play.

Because there is a sense of a shared exploration of ideas at Putney.

And...

Again, I mean, it would be very easy to be quite sort of score points on who's the most sort of radical there.

But, you know, there's a sense that people are thinking aloud and you can see particularly in Ayrton just sort of saying, well, I can see the argument, but that's just not going to wash.

I mean, surely to make this work.

And, you know, I think everybody is focused.

focused on achieving a settlement that not only does justice to the amount of bloodshed that's been spilled over the past few years, but that lasts.

And the regicide isn't that.

A lot of level of language is very much only really focused on the commons.

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