1647 in England

Events from the year 1647 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

Monarch - King Charles I

Events

• 30 January - Scots hand over King Charles I to England in return for £40,000 of army back-pay.^[1]
• March - Folk dancing and bear-baiting banned.^[1]
• 15 March - Harlech surrenders; the last Royalist castle to do so.^[1]
• 18 May - The House of Commons decides to disband the Army.^[2]
• 4 June - King Charles I taken to Newmarket as a prisoner of the New Model Army.^[2]
• June - The Long Parliament passes an Ordinance confirming abolition of the feasts of Christmas, Easter and Whitsun, though making the second Tuesday in each month a secular holiday.^[3]
• 2 August - The King rejects the proposals set out in the Heads of Proposals.^[2]
• 7 August - Oliver Cromwell takes control of Parliament with the New Model Army, an attempt by Presbyterian MPs to raise the City of London having been unsuccessful.^[2]
• 8 August - Irish Confederate Wars: An English Parliamentary army defeats the Irish Confederate's Leinster army.^[2]
• 20 August - Parliament passes the Null and Void Ordinance.^[4]
• October - The Levellers publish their manifesto Agreement of the People.^[2]
• 28 October–11 November - Putney Debates between the New Model Army and Levellers concerning a new national constitution.^[4]
• 11 November - The King attempts to escape captivity but is captured and imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight.^[2]
• 15 November - Corkbush Field mutiny: two regiments of the New Model Army threaten to mutiny.^[4]
• 24 December - Parliament presents the King with new demands which he rejects.^[2]
• 25 December - Rioting in Canterbury and elsewhere over the celebration of Christmas.^[5]
• 26 December - The King signs a secret treaty with Scotland in which he promises to impose Presbyterianism in England in return for military assistance.^[6]

Undated

• Anglican professors are dismissed from the University of Oxford.^[2]

Births

• 1 April - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet (died 1680)
• 3 April - Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet, statesman (died 1709)
• 2 July - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, privy councillor (died 1730)
• date unknown - Henry Aldrich, theologian and philosopher (died 1710)

Deaths

• 29 January - Francis Meres, writer (born 1565)
• 12 March - Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1591)
• 20 April - Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1593)
• 12 June - Thomas Farnaby, grammarian (born c.1575)
• 7 July - Thomas Hooker, religious and colonial leader (born 1586)
• August - Matthew Hopkins, witchfinder-general (year of birth unknown)
• 24 August - Nicholas Stone, sculptor and architect (born 1586)
• October - Lady Anne Stanley, heir to the throne (born 1580)
• Thomas Abington, antiquarian (born 1550)
• Leonard Calvert, colonial governor (born 1606)
• Ferdinando Gorges, colonial entrepreneur (born 1565)
• Elizabeth Raleigh, wife of Walter Raleigh (born 1565)
• John Saltmarsh, clergyman (year of birth unknown)
• Degory Wheare, academic (born 1573)

References

See also