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The failure of the Commonwealth, 1649-53

NMA hostility • Army believed C'wealth not radical enough

• Insufficient religious reform as the independents

wanted

• Suppression of the Levellers

• Rump especially alienated the army (pay & not sent

home/failure to 'heal & settle'/Dutch war meant

money not used in other ways)

Anglo-Dutch War • Meant more tax, inability to spend on widows

pensions/poor relief

Rump (i)

Unpopularity of

• Loss of army support (see above)

• Lack of any religious settlement

• Lack of radical political/legal/social reform after first

months

• MP's accused of working for their own gain

Rump (ii)

Treatment of

former royalists

• Loss of land

• Fines

• Failure to encourage "heal & settle"

Rump (iii)

confusion over

1653 elections

• = attempt to perpetuate itself

Cromwell's

position

• Dominates through personality, public stature, military

power

• As leader of army could use it to close/change sytems

at will

• Rump/Barebones always had to "look over their

shoulder" - no real freedom to act

Fear that radical

reform would

lead to a

conservative

reaction

• Rump especially was always concerned that to act too

radically would bring the enemies of Parliament

together and lead to opposition & possible unrest.

• Moderate/radical conflict in Barebones alarms

moderates so much that they close the barebones down

and hand back power

In conclusion, after the death of Charles, the Commonwealth system failed to

provide clear, effective government.

It was always envisaged that the Rump would be shortlived to prepare for a new

permanent way of governing the country. The early failure of the Commonwealth,

just speeded this up.

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