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Desires and Resolutions of the Clubmen 1645
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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
Nov 19, 201713 min read
Neuters, neutrals, a let's talk route to achieve change has always been seen fit.
Neuters neutrals and waverers, is a term used with broadness in meaning and had manifested itself by many in language to describe the...
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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
Mar 19, 20173 min read
"Which Side Are You On" Need Not Apply.
1642. As it was said "The Quarrel Was More Between Parliament And King" not the people. The reversal of the phrase of Paul Weller's...
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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
Mar 3, 20173 min read
"The neutrality of the Clubmen"
Clubmen banner and Levellers banner held in Burford on Levellers Day 2016. "Rotten-hearted nauseous Neutrals" was the description given...
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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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Haydn Wheeler
Nov 19, 20167 min read
Thomas Young, "a man more eloquent than trustworthy you could say."
Castle Hill in Shaftesbury, scene of the capture of Thomas Young and Clubmen leaders, 1645. Thomas Young of Manston. Speaking of the...
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Haydn Wheeler
Nov 6, 20165 min read
Clubmen, Grovely Wood, "they will not suffer them to fight, but make them drink together",
Grovely Wood in far distance as seen from A36, Scene of Clubmen meeting 1645 Ebsbury Hill, incorporating Grovely Castle General Fairfax's...
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Haydn Wheeler
Oct 24, 20162 min read
The Western Husbandman's Lamentation Half Penny song, March 1645
Sketch by Stewart MacArthur "And them the Roundheads fetched away, A mischief be their speed. And had six horses left me whole, And them...
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Haydn Wheeler
Oct 23, 20162 min read
Goring's men were killed in a skirmish.
View from the village of Godmanstone, near Dorchester Dorset, seen here from Cowdon Hill. At the end of February 1645 several of Royalist...
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Haydn Wheeler
Oct 23, 20161 min read
Warrant of the Wiltshire Clubmen, Buxbury Hill, May 26th 1645.
Following the Clubmen, meeting and agreement of May 25th 1645 'Desires And Resolutions' declaration, where 'certain directions for the...
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Haydn Wheeler
Oct 21, 20164 min read
Monmouth Led the Clubmen, Wearing the White Apron.
Sheila Wiggins above holding the flag and motto of the Clubmen in Bridgewater. The Clubmen were in name again at the time of the Monmouth...
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