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12 de sept. de 2012 · A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content. Type. Chapter. Information. Henry Ireton and the English Revolution , pp. v. Publisher: Boydell & Brewer. Print publication year: 2006.
On 15 May 1660 the Convention Parliament ordered that justice be meted out on the regicides Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, John Bradshaw and Thomas Pride. For a Parliament that had welcomed monarchy back to England there was nothing surprising about initiating revenge against those who had committed the act that had led to eleven years of republican rule.
Henry Ireton was born in Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, in 1611. On the outbreak of the Civil War Ireton joined the Parliamentary army and fought at Edgehill (1642) and Naseby (1645). He also took part in the siege of Bristol. In 1646 Leveller supporters were elected from each regiment of the army to participate in the Putney Debates that began ...
The Remonstrance, drafted principally by Ireton in November 1648, marked the political conclusion of articulating Charles' guilt and equating him with those royalists who had already been executed. It is likely that Ireton believed Charles should die. Enacting this was, however, rather different.
Ireton, Henry. Ireton, Henry (1611–51), soldier and lord deputy of Ireland, was the eldest son in the resolutely puritan gentry family of German and Jane Ireton of Attenborough, near Nottingham. Baptised on 3 November 1611, he was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, graduating in 1629, and proceeded to the Middle Temple before returning to ...
Henry Ireton was an English general in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He died of disease outside Limerick in November 1651.
Henry Ireton was the brain trust, the "alpha and omega" of the New Model Army, as John Lilburne labeled him. He was also the engine driving forward the revolutionary events in England between 1647 and 1649. Even before marrying Oliver Cromwell's daughter Bridget in 1646 he had become Cromwell's closest friend and confidant.
