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Royalty, Revolution and Restoration in Wales and England c.1603-1715

The sects, the Levellers and the Diggers

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  • A2 Unit 3

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What was the lasting importance of the sects?

Key term

Why did radical religious sects multiply in the 1640s?

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What was the Westminster Assembly?

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  1. 1

    Why did radical religious sects multiply in the 1640s?

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    Censorship and the church courts collapsed, pulpit and press were open to anyone, and the upheaval of war suggested that God was overturning the old order.

  2. 2

    What was the Westminster Assembly?

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    The body of divines summoned in 1643 to settle religion, which recommended a Presbyterian system that Parliament never fully enforced.

  3. 3

    What did Independents want, as against Presbyterians?

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    Congregations gathered by consent and governing themselves, rather than a compulsory national structure of classes and synods.

  4. 4

    Who were the Levellers, and name three of their leaders.

    Model answer

    Radicals seeking a settlement founded on popular sovereignty, led by John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn.

  5. 5

    What did the Agreement of the People propose?

    Model answer

    A written constitution resting on the sovereignty of the people, with a redistributed and widened franchise, regular parliaments, equality before the law and liberty of conscience.

  6. 6

    What were the Putney Debates?

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    The debates in the army council in 1647 in which Levellers and senior officers argued over the franchise and the basis of political authority.

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