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Desires and Resolutions of the Clubmen 1645
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Haydn Wheeler.
Oct 29, 20194 min read
'In A Rut'. New Art Work.
Back in April of 2019 and with the anniversary of 'The Ruts' album The Crack in mind, we as a group, that is me, the artist Stewart...
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Haydn Wheeler.
Mar 4, 20195 min read
The Worcestershire Clubmen Declaration. 5th March 1645
Woodbury Hill from the south. Picture courtesy of John Clift Flickr creative commons. Path to the top of Woodbury Hill "These fruits of...
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Haydn Wheeler
Jul 3, 201818 min read
"A Tumultuous and Insolent Way" Western Campaign July 1645.
Tensions and fears of plunder, loss of provision and being pressed into the warring armies had in the English Revolution caused a meeting...
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Haydn Wheeler.
Mar 29, 20185 min read
Oppression's, cruel plunders and articles broken with the People.
Parliamentary Newspaper 1645 A joining through the counties of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Hereford by the people was forced upon...
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Haydn Wheeler
Feb 19, 20185 min read
A Clubmen A Pan And Pestle And The Signing Of The Kings Death Warrant
What links Sir John Danvers his estate in Lavington, a Mr Merryweather with his pan and pestle and the signing of Charles 1st death...
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Haydn Wheeler
Feb 10, 20189 min read
Connections, "it was seen fitting that we show our grievances and strength".
The Clubmen movements of 1645 in Dorset were a direct reaction against Parliamentarian and Royalist armies. With troops from both sides...
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Haydn Wheeler
Dec 23, 20175 min read
"Putting an end to the great distractions and miseries fallen upon this Kingdom.
Peace in this civil war, untitled 1642-1647 As Civil War began to take it's hold across the Country, prominent gentlemen in the county of...
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Haydn Wheeler
Sep 12, 20177 min read
"laws and commands over our persons and estates, by which they have overthrown all our English
Anti Fracking protest in Balcombe 2013 The insufferable, insolent, arbitrary power that hath bin used amongest us, contrary to all our...
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Haydn Wheeler
Jun 18, 20177 min read
"Horse cut and hacked many of them" Lomers Ash. The Clubmen of Sussex.
Lomers Ash shown on old map by Norden 1595. The Sussex Clubmen declaration of September 26th 1645 as with the Dorset, Wiltshire...
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Haydn Wheeler
Jun 12, 20174 min read
"Peace and Safety of the County"
Clubmen At Faulston and Langford. Faulstone Wiltshire, Garrison of Parliamentarian Troops. "They will obey no Warrants further than they...
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Haydn Wheeler
Apr 14, 20177 min read
"Great oppression's, Cruel plunders" and The Commons.
' Back Cover of the 1st Clash LP, The Clash Growing up and as a teenager through the late 70s early 80s, with the dawning of the Thatcher...
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Haydn Wheeler
Apr 4, 20173 min read
"Alienated those whose hearts were best affected to the Kings service"
It "Alienated those whose hearts were best affected to the Kings service". The Earl Clarendon wrote in his memoirs when referring to...
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Haydn Wheeler
Mar 8, 20178 min read
"Let that be a warning to join, keep out of unlawful assemblies"
Place Yard 1647, courtesy of the Guildhall Library The Clubmen movement with its call for a stop to the Civil War and a return to talks...
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Haydn Wheeler
Feb 28, 20174 min read
And Where is Gore-Hedge Corner?
"The Desires and Resolutions" demands made by the Clubmen were agreed and penned at Gore-hedge Corner" which has become a place in the...
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Haydn Wheeler
Feb 21, 20174 min read
The Worcestershire Clubmen Declaration. 5th March 1645
Woodbury Hill from the south. Picture courtesy of John Clift Flickr creative commons. Woodbury Hill Clubmen video. The NW Worcestershire...
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Haydn Wheeler.
Feb 9, 20176 min read
"By Ringing Of Bells" Peace and Safety Across the County.
The bells of St Mary's of Shroton , Iwerne Courtney Dorset. Seen here courtesy of John Taylor & Co "Bellfoundry" where restoration of the...
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Haydn Wheeler
Feb 5, 20172 min read
"Many voices of the people"
The Putney Debates, which were first held in 1647 returned in 2017 to their original home of St Mary's Church, Putney. Hosted by The...
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Haydn Wheeler
Jan 3, 20175 min read
"These Clubmen would knock them on the heads as they should fly for safety."
Looking over Monkton Up Wimborne, home of George Hawles, one of the Clubmen leaders who met Fairfax in Dorchester as part of a deputation...
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Haydn Wheeler
Dec 24, 20166 min read
"The cavaliers have kept great Christmases after the usual time with sets of fiddlers".
Pic Wolveton Hall Dorset. Trenchard's residence. Bingham married Frances Trenchard, daughter of John Trenchard "The cavaliers have kept...
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Haydn Wheeler.
Nov 20, 20163 min read
Cromwell Meets With Clubmen at Duncliffe Hill 1645 “a place full of wood and almost inaccessible”,
Clubmen come face to face with Cromwell's New Model Army: Duncliffe Wood. During the English Revolution (Civil War) the Clubmen of...
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