Uprisings and Conspiracies
During the Interregnum and in the first year of the Restoration there were a number of uprisings and conspiracies against the established government.
The Penruddock uprising in southwest England by Royalists on 11 March 1655 failed spectacularly. With only a few hundred troops, they were defeated within three days.
Plots to kill Cromwell by the Sealed Knot were completely undone by the Lord Protector's spymaster John Thurloe. After Richard Cromwell's resignation, George Booth led another uprising along the Welsh border in August 1659 which was crushed by Lambert and Duckenfield.
After the Restoration, there was a Fifth Monarchist uprising in London by Thomas Venner in January 1661. After four days of skirmishes, Venner was captured and executed.
Read more about this topic: Third English Civil War, Aftermath
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“If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.”
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