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    The Putney Debates, which took place from 28 October to 8 November 1647, were a series of discussions over the political settlement that should follow...
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    1647, during the English Civil War, the church was the site of the Putney Debates on the English constitution. It has been Grade II* listed since 1955...
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    Putney (/ˈpʌtni/) is an affluent district of south London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, five miles (eight kilometres) southwest of Charing...
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    peerless courage". He is now most famous for his participation in the 1647 Putney Debates, when he argued "the poorest hee ... in England hath a life to live...
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    and Henry Ireton had applied the term to Lilburne's group during the Putney Debates of late 1647. Lilburne considered the term pejorative and called his...
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    work was influential. When the army held the Putney Debates between 28 October and 11 November 1647, the debate centred upon a pamphlet influenced by the...
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    the vote should extend only to the landowners. In the Putney Debates of 1647, the two groups debated these topics in hopes of forming a new constitution...
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    iteration of The Manchester Guardian) in 2006, Peterloo came second to the Putney Debates as the event from radical British history that most deserved a proper...
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  • Harrison. The Saffron Walden Debates of May 1647 are considered the prelude to the Putney Debates of October 1647. In these debates the army wanted certain...
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    Grandees and humble, leveller-influenced figures debating a new constitution in the Putney Debates of 1647. Parliament was largely cowed by the executive...
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