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]
Notes
- ↑ Colonels Kempson, Ayre, Herbert's regiments, another Regiment of Foot, and of Colonel Cook's Regiment of Horse. (Rushworth 1708, p.335)
- ↑ Another primary source "Rushworth's Collections Part IV Vol.2 (Vol. 7) page 1012." contradicts the first report and states that Herbert's regiment was not present. London Institution Library et al. 1840, p. 86)
- 1 2 Willis-Bund 2008, pp. 199–201
References
- Willis-Bund, John William (2008) [1905]. The Civil War In Worcestershire, 1642-1646: And the Scotch Invasion Of 1651. Birmingham: READ BOOKS. ISBN 978-1-4437-7438-3.
- 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.
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