Epiphany Rising In opposition to King: On Monday 7 January 1660 (1661 by our trendy calendar – New 12 months again then was the twenty fifth March) Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary “This morning, information was delivered to me to my bedside, that there had been an incredible stir within the Metropolis this evening by the Fanatiques, who had been up and killed six or seven males, however all are fled. My Lord Mayor and the entire Metropolis had been in arms, above 40,000.”
The Fanatiques – a time period used to explain the Fifth Monarches (and different nonconformists) believed that the killing of King Charles in 1649 had delivered to an finish of the final of the 4 kingdoms mentions within the biblical Ebook of Daniel – thought of as the tip of the Empire of Rome (earlier than that had come Babylon, Persia and the Greeks – although there have been many different interpretations) and that the time was close to for the second coming and the institution of the Kingdom of God on earth. Their rebellion was in opposition to the re-establishment of monarchy in 1660.
Led by preacher and cooper Thomas Venner they marched from a non secular assembly in Swan Alley to take forcibly the keys to St Pauls Cathedral which they then occupied for some hours. Right here the band of round 50 males defeated a a lot bigger physique of troops despatched to seize them, however then didn’t determine what to do subsequent, and went out into the woods at Kenwood north of London. Three days in a while ninth January they got here again to the Metropolis and first compelled the troopers despatched to cease them to retreat however had been lastly defeated by a a lot bigger physique of troopers. Twenty-six of them had been killed and twenty troopers additionally died.
Venner and round 50 others had been arrested and tried. Venner was hanged, drawn and quartered on 19 January 1661. His head and people of 12 others had been then displayed on London Bridge.
Pepys has an extended entry in his diary for the ninth January concerning the rebellion – and on seeing everybody else carrying arms he went again dwelling “and acquired my sword and pistol, which, nonetheless, I had no powder to cost” however after taking a stroll into the town he “went dwelling and sat, it being workplace day, until midday.” Later he was persuaded to exit, however then went dwelling and performed his lute then went to mattress “there being strict guards all evening within the Metropolis, although a lot of the enemies, they are saying, are killed or taken.”
In January 2013, Ian Bone and Class Struggle collaborated with film-maker Suzy Gillett to movie a re-enactment of the occasions of 1661, together with quite a lot of speeches and performances concerning the unique occasions earlier than setting off behind a banner made for the event led by a younger lady taking part in the position of Baptist visionary prophet Anna Trapnel, a Fifth Monarchist finest identified for her 1653 tract ‘The cry of a stone” which recorded her talking in a trance in Whitehall at nice size, particularly berating Oliver Cromwell who many felt was by then organising a brand new monarchy. In it she stated “the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus is at hand, all of the Monarchies of this world are taking place the hill: Now’s a time that thine ought to look off from the fethings, and carry up their head, for his or her Redemption attracts close to.”
You’ll be able to learn an account of what occurred in 2013 on My London Diary at Epiphany Rising In opposition to King or one other account by one other of these participating, Paul Brad, additionally illustrated by my pictures.
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