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WALDEN 1647
Celebrating the Birth of English Democracy
EXHIBITION OF PUBLICATIONS
Saffron Walden Museum
Civil War documents from the Museum’s and Town Library’s collections
Declaration of the Lords & Commons Assembled upon the Statute
London, 1642
Letters from Saffron-Walden, the Generalls Head Quarters, by way of Apologie and Vindication of the Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax of some late groundlesse aspersions cast upon them. [3 April, 1647.]... Also the copie of a second Petition from the county of Essex, etc.
London, printed Anno Domni, 1647
One of several publications printed while the New Model Army was billeted in around Saffron Walden during Spring 1647
Divers Papers from the Army viz 1 Marshall Generall Skippon’s Speech to the Army, May the 15. 2. The Answer of the Army ... Whereunto are added other papers of concernment.
London : Hanna Allen, 1647
Major-General Skippon's speech opening one of the debates that took place in St. Mary's Church in May 1647
Declaration of the Armie Under His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax As it was Lately presented at Saffron Walden in Essex
Printed by the appointment of the officers whose names are here unto subscribed, 1647
This publication justifies the officers' support for the ordinary soldiers and reprints the notorious "Declaration of Dislike" which labelled the soldiers "Enemies of the State"
Essex Watchman's Watchword to the inhabitants of the said county respectively,…by way of apologetical account, of the true grounds of their first engagement with them in the cause of God, King and Parliament, for their vindication from unjust aspersions / Also by way of faithful premonition of the dangerous evil latent in a printed paper, entituled, The agreement of the people...
[Feb. 15th 1648, i.e. 1649]
London : Printed for Ralph Smith, 1649
Circulated around the Essex Churches this explicitly anti-Leveller tract attacked "The Agreement of the People"
John Rushworth Historical Collections, Vol VI
Printed for Richard Chisell & Thomas Cockerill at the Rose and Crown in St.Paul's Church-yard, and at the Three Legs and Bible against Grocer's Hall in the Poultry, 1701.
Rushworth was Secretary to the New Model Army. The book is open at the "official" report on the abduction of King Charles I while playing bowls near Holdenby.
A Perfect Diurnall of some Passages and Proceedings of, and in relation to the Armies in England and Ireland
February, 1649
Robert Ward and others, The Hunting of the Foxes from New-Market to Triploe-Heaths to Whitehall by five small Beagles (late of the Armie.) 1649
Printed in a Corner of Freedome, right opposite to the Council of Warre, Anno Domini, 1649
An Act for the Better Observation of the Lords-Day, 1657
Displays the Arms of the Commonwealth.
Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham, An Exact and Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and Judgement (according to Law) of nine and twenty REGICIDES, The Murtherers of His Late Sacred Majesty
London, Printed for Andrew Crook at the Green Dragon in St. Paul’s Church-yard, and Edware Powel at the White Swan in Little-Britain, 1660
Account of "The Tryal of William Hulett"
The Speeches, Discourses, and Prayers of Col. John Barkstead, Col. John Okey, and Mr. Miles Corbet; Upon the 19th of April, being the Day of their Suffering at Tyburn.
___________Printed in the Year 1662
William Winstanley, The Loyall Martyrology, or Brief catalogues and characters of the most eminent persons who suffered for their conscience during the late times of rebellion [&c.]. As also, dregs of treachery : with the catalogue and characters of those regicides who sat as judges.
London : Printed by Thomas Mabb, for Edward Thomas ..., 1665
William Winstanley was a Royalist who, while still an apprentice, actively recruited men to fight in the Battle of Linton. He later became a prominent writer in Restoration England – the author of about 60 books.
William Winstanley, England’s Worthies. The Lives of the Most Eminent Persons from Constantine the Great to These Times.
Printed for Obadiah Balgrave, at the Bear in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1684
Eikon Basilike: The Pourtraicture of his Sacred Majestie in His Solitude & Sufferings
Reprint of the edition of 1648
London, Elliot Stock, 1880
A key document in manufacturing the image of King Charles I as the "Martyr King"
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