Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution

RACHEL FOXLEY Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Reading, UKIAN GENTLES Visiting Professor of History at Tyndale University College, Toronto, and Professor of History at York University, Toronto, CanadaFRANCES HENDERSON Former Research Associate of Worcester College, Oxford, and of the University of Cambridge, UKANN HUGHES Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University, UKALAN ORR holds an appointment in Intellectual History at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, USAJASON PEACEY Senior Lecturer in History at University College, London, UKDAVID L. SMITH Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College, Cambridge, UKEDWARD VALLANCE Reader in Early Modern History at Roehampton University, UK

• AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: The History and Historiography of The Agreements of the People; E.Vernon & P.Baker Oaths, Covenants, Associations and the Origins of the Agreements of the People: The Road To and From Putney; E.Vallance The People of the Agreements: The Levellers, Civil War Radicalism and Political Participation; J.Peacey Constitutionalism: Ancient, Modern and Early Modern in the Agreements of the People; D.A.Orr The Levellers, Decentralisation and the Agreements of the People; P.Baker Freedom of Conscience and the Agreements of the People; R.Foxley The New Model Army and the Constitutional Crisis of the Later 1640s; I.Gentles Drafting the Officers' Agreement of the People: A Reappraisal; F.Henderson 'A Firme and Present Peace; Upon Grounds of Common Right and Freedome': The Debate on the Agreements of the People and the Crisis of the Constitution, 1647-59; E.Vernon Diggers, True Levellers and the Crisis of the English Revolution; A.Hughes The Agreements of the People and the Constitutions of the Interregnum Governments; D.L.Smith Appendix I

Won Book of the Week at the University of Buckingham (7th August 2013) "The [historiographical] landscape is altered in sometimes startling, but always refreshing, ways and, for those interested in the English revolution, the development of constitutional thought and the sources and character of early modern radicalism, this is an indispensable text." - J.C. Davis, Parliamentary History