England Without a King 1649-60

Austin Woolrych

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9780415104562
• eBook ISBN: 9781134847730
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Professor Woolrych surveys the establishment and history if the Commonwealth and Protectorate, first explaining how the country lost its king, and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on the nature of the Protectorate, and finally offers some guidelines to the tangled period between Cromwell's death and the Restoration.

Bibliography

The following is a selection of recent and fairly recent works which bear particularly on points discussed in this pamphlet. The numbers are those by which they are referred to in the text.

Place of publication is London unless stated otherwise.

1 G.E.Aylmer, The Levellers in the English Revolution (1975).

2 G.E.Aylmer, The State’s Servants: the Civil Service of the English Republic 1649–1660 (1973).

3 G.E.Aylmer, (ed.), The Interregnum: the Quest for Settlement 1646–1660 (1972). The contributions referred to are by (a) J.P. Cooper, (b) Claire Cross, (c) Ivan Roots, (d) Keith Thomas, (e) David Underdown, (f) Austin Woolrych.

4 T.C.Barnard, Cromwellian Ireland:English Government and Reform in Ireland, 1649–1660 (Oxford, 1975).

5 John Bossy, The English Catholic Community 1570–1850 (1975).

6 B.S.Capp, The Fifth Monarchy Men: a Study in Seventeenth-Century English Millenarianism (1972).

7 Godfrey Davies, The Restoration of Charles II 1658-1660 (Oxford, 1955).

8 F.D.Dow, Cromwellian Scotland 1651–1660 (Edinburgh, 1979).

9 Alan Everitt, The Community of Kent and the Great Rebellion 1640–1660 (Leicester, 1966).

10 Christopher Hill, Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1971).

11 Christopher Hill, God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (1970).

12 Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (1972).

13 Derek Hirst, The Representative of the People? Voters and Voting in England under the Early Stuarts (Cambridge, 1975).

14 J.R.Jones, Britain and the World 1649–1815 (1980).

15 Kishlansky Mark A., The Rise of the New Model Army (Cambridge, 1979).

16 Kishlansky Mark A., ‘The case of the army truly stated: the creation of the New Model Army’, Past & Present 81 (1978).

17 Kishlansky Mark A., ‘The army and the Levellers: the roads to Putney’, Historical Journal, XXII (1979).

18 W.A.Lament, Godly Rule: Politics and Religion 1603–1660 (1969).

19 Olivier Lutaud, Winstanley: Socialisme et Christianisme sous Cromwell (Paris, 1976).

20 A.W.Mclntosh, ‘The numbers of the regicides’, History LXVII (1982).

21 John Miller, Popery and Politics in England 1660–1688 (Cambridge, 1973).

22 J.S.Merrill, The Revolt of the Provinces: Conservatives and Radicals in the English Civil War, 1630–1650 (1976).

23 J.S.Merrill, ‘Mutiny and discontent in English provincial armies, 1645–1647’, Past & Present 56 (1972).

24 Michael Roberts, ‘Cromwell and the Baltic’, English Historical Review LXXVI (1961), reprinted in M.Roberts, Essays in Swedish History (1967).

25 Ivan Roots, The Great Rebellion 1642–1660 (1966).

26 Ivan Roots, ‘Swordsmen and decimators—Cromwell’s MajorGenerals’, in R.H.Parry (ed.), The English Civil War and After 1642–1658 (1970).

27 David Stevenson, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Scotland 1644–1651 (1977).

28 Murray Tolmie, The Triumph of the Saints: the Separate Churches of London 1616–1649 (Cambridge, 1977).

29 David Underdown, Pride’s Purge: Politics in the Puritan Revolution (Oxford, 1971).

30 David Underdown, Royalist Conspiracy in England 1649–1660 (New Haven, Conn., 1960).

31 David Underdown, Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum (1973).

32 David Underdown, ‘"Honest" radicals in the counties, 1642–1649’, in D.Pennington and K.Thomas (eds), Puritans and Revolutionaries: Essays in Seventeenth-Century History Presented to Christopher Hill (Oxford, 1978).

33 Donald Veall, The Popular Movement for Law Reform 1640–1660 (Oxford, 1970).

34 Charles Wilson, Profit and Power: a Study of England and the Dutch Wars (1957).

35 Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom and Other Writings, ed. Christopher Hill (1973).

36 Austin Woolrych, Battles of the English Civil War (1961).

37 Austin Woolrych, Commonwealth to Protectorate (Oxford, 1982).

38 Austin Woolrych, Introduction to Complete Prose Works of John Milton, VII (New Haven, Conn., revised ed. 1980).

39 Austin Woolrych, ‘The calling of Barebone’s Parliament’, English Historical Review LXXX (1965).

40 Austin Woolrych, ‘Milton and Cromwell’, in M.Lieb and J.T. Shawcross (eds), Achievements of the Left Hand: Essays on the Prose of John Milton (Amherst, Mass., 1974).

41 Austin Woolrych, ‘The Good Old Cause and the fall of the Protectorate’, Cambridge Historical Journal XIII (1957).

42 Blair Worden, The Rump Parliament 1648–1653 (Cambridge, 1974).

43 Blair Worden, ‘The Bill for a New Representative: the dissolution of the Long Parliament, April 1653’, English Historical Review LXXXVI (1971).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Dedication
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Time chart
• Stages on the road to a scaffold
• England’s new masters
• The defeat of radical hopes
• The army against the Rump
• Barebone’s Parliament
• The Protectorate established
• Cromwell and the nation
• A new constitution
• Richard Cromwell’s Protectorate
• The restored Commonwealth and its collapse
• Bibliography