Season 8 · Episode 45
409 Agreement of the People
Radicals and the New Model were determined to hold Charles to account.
The History of England · David Crowther
June 23, 202447m 1s
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Show Notes
The New Model, Levellers and Radical MPs reacted with steely determination to the adoption of the Newport treaty. It was probably Ireton that inspired Pride's Purge. Ireton it was also that drove the development of the constitutional proposal that followed, forged in the Whitehall Debates - the Agreement of the People. That would have to wait though, because more immediate questions were at hand. What now to do with this incorrigible king?
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