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FIFTH MONARCHY MEN , the name of a Puritan sect in England which for a time supported the government of Oliver Cromwell in the belief that it was a preparation for the " fifth monarchy," that is for the monarchy which should succeed the Assyrian, the Persian, the Greek and the Roman, and during which Christ should reign on earth with His saints for a thousand years. These sectaries aimed at bringing about the entire abolition of the existing laws
secret until after the Restoration. Then, on the 6th of January 1661, a band of fifth monarchy men, headed by a cooper named Thomas
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3 Syntagma musicum (Wolfenbuttel, 1618), pp. 40-41 of Reprint. Musica instrumentalis (Wittenberg, 1529). Musica getutscht and auszgezogen (Basel, 1511). 6 See Sir S. D. Scott, The British Army, vol. ii. p. 396. ' See H. G. Farmer, Memoirs of the Royal Artillery Band (London, 1904). 8 Id. , Id. 1 Stowe's Chronicles, p. 702. u Grose, Military Antiquities (London, 18o1), vol. ii. 12 See Colonel P. Forbes Macbean, Memoirs of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.332 who was one of their preachers, made an attempt to obtain 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 treason. From that time the special
For the proceedings of the sect see S. R. Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, passim (London, 18941901); and for an account of the rising of 1661 see Sir John Reresby, Memoirs, 16341689, edited by J. J. Cartwright
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