To what extent was there an English revolution in 1649?

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20-27th January 1649: The trial and execution

  • Charles resolved himself to martyrdom, and it was his ‘finest hour’.

  • 27th January 1649- he refused to acknowledge the Court, and was condemned to death.

  • 29th January 1649- Members of the Court signed the King’s death warrant.

  • 30th January 1649- he was executed on a scaffold outside his banqueting hall at Whitehall.

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Why was Charles I executed?

  1. Refusal to settle for a negotiated settlement. He intentionally prolonged a settlement so that neither side could agree with each other.

  2. His duplicitious personality and nature.

  3. The rise of radical sects and groups (NMA and Levellers).

  4. The Second Civil War: against God’s will and judgement for Parliament’s victory in the first Civil War.

    Charles refused to acknowledge the authority of the Show Court.

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‘A cruel necessity’

Cromwell had arrived in London on the evening of 6th December 1648, after Pride’s Purge. He was the third signature on the death warrant.

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Was 1649 the beginning or the end?