Elliot Vernon 
The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution 

The Agreements of the People were a series of written constitutions proposed variously by Levellers, soldiers and citizens for the settlement of the nation at the height of the English Revolution. The essays in this book explore the various Agreements in the context of the constitutional crisis that engulfed England in the late 1640s and 1650s.

Table of Content

Acknowledgements Notes 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

About the author

RACHEL FOXLEY Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Reading, UK IAN GENTLES Visiting Professor of History at Tyndale University College, Toronto, and Professor of History at York University, Toronto, Canada FRANCES HENDERSON Former Research Associate of Worcester College, Oxford, and of the University of Cambridge, UK ANN HUGHES Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University, UK ALAN ORR holds an appointment in Intellectual History at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, USA JASON PEACEY Senior Lecturer in History at University College, London, UK DAVID L. SMITH Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK EDWARD VALLANCE Reader in Early Modern History at Roehampton University, UK