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Solemn Engagement

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on 29 May 1647. Acting in response to a parliamentary threat of disbandment, the document asserted that the army would not disband until satisfactory terms were negotiated. This was in part because of weeks of arrears owed to the soldiers, and in frustration of the slow progress parliament had made
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At the Triploe Heath rendezvous the commissioners offers failed to pacify the New Model Army, largely because the officers and men were aware of the steps that Parliament and the City of London were taking against the Army, including an attempt to set up a rival army for which they were willing to
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pay while still withholding arrears of pay from the New Model Army. The Army rejected the commissioners offer and continued their slow advance towards London.
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near Newmarket on Friday and Saturday 4 and 5 June. On 8 June Fairfax sent the Solemn Engagement to Parliament with a letter.
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Puritanism and Liberty, being the Army Debates (1647-9) from the Clarke Manuscripts with Supplementary Documents
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The agreement was read, and assented to by all the officers and soldiers of the regiments of the
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A Solemne Engagement of the Army, under the Command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax
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Soldiers and statesmen: the General Council of the Army and its debates, 1647-1648
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In the letter he explained that because the King was now with the Army (
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Fairfax, Thomas; General Council of the New Model Army (1647).
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Triploe Heath is 8 miles south of Cambridge, and now spelt
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Fairfax & General Council of the New Model Army 1647
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having taken Charles I from Parliament's custody at
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House of Commons
General Council of the Army
Thomas Fairfax
Newmarket
Charles I
New Model Army
Kentford Heath
Cornet Joyce
Holdenby House
Ironsides
English Commonwealth
Good Old Cause
Thriplow Heath
Woolrych 1987


Fairfax & General Council of the New Model Army 1647
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"Kentford Heath to St Albans: The Army States its Demands"
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"Appendix B.8: A Representation of the Army (14th June)"
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