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AGITATORS, or ADJUTATORS , the name given to representatives elected in 1647 by the different regiments of the English Parliamentary army. The word really means an agent, but itwas confused with " adjutant," often called " agitant," a title familiar
Parliament wished either to disband many of the regiments or to send them to Ireland. The soldiers, whose pay was largely in arrear, refused to accept either alternative, and eight of the cavalry regiments elected agitators, called at first commissioners, who laid their grievances before the three generals, and whose letter was read in the House
parliament had again decided to disband the army, and soon afterwards fixed the 1st of June as the date on which this process was to begin. Again alarmed, the agitators decided to resist; a mutiny occurred in one regiment and the attempt at disbandment failed. Then followed the seizure of the king by Cornet Joyce, Cromwell's definite adherence to the policy of the army, the signing of the manifestoes, a Humble Representation and a Solemn Engagement and the establishment
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See S. R. Gardiner, History of the Great
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