1st Edition

Major-General Hezekiah Haynes and the Failure of Oliver Cromwell’s Godly Revolution, 1594–1704

By David Farr Copyright 2020
246 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Hezekiah Haynes was shaped by the Puritanism of his father’s network and experienced emigration to New England as part of a community removing themselves from Charles I’s Laudianism. Returning to fight in the British Civil Wars, Haynes rose to become Cromwell’s ruler of the east of England, tasked with bringing about a godly revolution, and in rising to prominence he became the centre of his own... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: 15941655

1. The economic, kinship and religious networks of Hezekiah Haynes and the development of a Puritan activist, 1594 to 1654

2. Haynes and the experience of war, 1642 to 1651

3. Haynes and the politics of the Godly armies, 1646 to 1655

Part 2: 16551704

4. Major-General of the east and political conservatism, 1655 to 1657

5. Major-General of the east and religious radicalism, 1655 to 1657

6. The failure of Godly rule and Restoration persecution, 1656 to 1662

7. The survival and realignment of Hezekiah Haynes’ economic, kinship and religious networks, 1654 to 1704

Conclusion: Hezekiah Haynes and the failure of Oliver Cromwell’s Godly Revolution

Biography

David Farr is Deputy Head Academic of Norwich School. He is author of full-length studies of other Cromwellian military-religious figures, John Lambert, Henry Ireton and Thomas Harrison, as well as general studies of Britain 1603–1702, and numerous articles on various aspects of the English Revolution.