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Reasons for failure

  • Cromwell and Council of Army Officers opted for Nominal Assembly
  • Lambert wanted small executive Council of State with Army and civilian members
  • others wanted a nominated assembly of saints
  • Cromwell first saw it as a body which might draw up a new constitution but it decided to call itself a parliament
  • radicals were a minority (11-14 out of 40 were 5M) but dominated discussion
  • most members were of lesser gentry status
  • programme of reform sounded too radical
  • threatened too many vested interests
  • first assembly to have representatives of Scotland and Ireland

Aims

  • codification of the Law into a small pocket book
  • abolition of the Court of Chancery
  • abolition of tithes
  • abolition of a gentleman's right to nominate men to church livings
  • Fifth Monarchists wanted the Law of Moses
  • to all gentry, this was seen as an attack on property rights

Sensible reforms

  • Act to settle Ireland
  • Act to link England, Scotland and Ireland
  • 1653 Civil Marriage Act

Silly reforms (radical!)

  • voted to abolish Court of Chancery in August 1653 - only saved by BB's dissolution in December 1653
  • voted in Aug 53 56-52 in favour of abolition of tithes - too much for moderate members
  • while the radicals attended a prayer meeting, moderates came to the chamber and voted themselves out of existence