Broadway meeting
An unauthorised meeting was held at Broadway in Worcestershire in January 1648, by about 80 officers from four or five Parliamentary regiments.[1][2] They met to discuss grievances, principally the issue of back pay.[3]
One report in a letter read out in Parliament on 24 January 1648, suggested that up to 60 of the officers present were plotting a military uprising. However no uprising took place, whether that was because the Derby House Committee took actions that pre-empted the insurrection or if there was no substance to the report is not known.[3]
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Reference
- Willis-Bund, John William (2008) [1905]. The Civil War In Worcestershire, 1642-1646: And the Scotch Invasion Of 1651. Birmingham: READ BOOKS. ISBN 9781443774383.
- London Institution Library; Upcott, William; Brayley, Edward William; Thomson, Richard (1840). A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed, proceeded An historical and bibliographical account of the tracts and pamhplets. Volume 2. Printed for the London Institution by C. Skipper and East.
- Rushworth, John (1708). Mr. Rushworth's Historical Collections: Abridg'd and improv'd. From April 1646 to January 1648. Volume 6. printed in London.