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FIFTH See also:MONARCHY MEN
, the name of a Puritan See also:sect in See also:England which for a See also:time supported the See also:government of See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell in the belief that it was a preparation for the " fifth See also:monarchy," that is for the monarchy which should succeed the See also:Assyrian, the See also:Persian, the See also:Greek and the See also:Roman, and during which See also:Christ should reign on See also:earth with His See also:saints for a thousand years
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These sectaries aimed at bringing about the entire abolition of the existing See also:laws and institutions, and the substitution of a simpler See also:code based upon the See also:law of See also:Moses
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Disappointed at the delay in the fulfilment of their hopes, they'soon began to agitate against the government and to vilify Cromwell; but the See also:arrest of their leaders and preachers, See also:Christopher Feake, See also: 396 . ' See H . G . See also:Farmer, See also:Memoirs of the Royal See also:Artillery Band (See also:London, 1904) . 8 Id . , Id . 1° See also:Stowe's See also:Chronicles, p . 702. u See also:Grose, Military Antiquities (London, 18o1), vol. ii . 12 See See also:Colonel P . See also:Forbes Macbean, Memoirs of the Royal See also:Regiment of Artillery . 332 who was one of their preachers, made an See also:attempt to obtain See also:possession of London . Most of them were either killed or taken prisoners, and on the 19th and 21st of January Venner and ten others were executed for high See also:treason . From that time the See also:special doctrines of the sect either died out, or became merged in a milder See also:form of millenarianism, similar to that which exists at the See also:present See also:day . For the proceedings of the sect see S . R . See also:Gardiner, See also:History of the See also:Commonwealth and See also:Protectorate, passim (London, 1894–1901); and for an See also:account of the rising of 1661 see Sir John Reresby, Memoirs, 1634–1689, edited by J . J . See also:Cartwright (London, 1875) . |
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