Talk:Good Old Cause
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Clean up
[edit]This article could easily be made a precise and clear explanation of its subject. It need not be exceedingly long, but its current lack of references, easily comprehensible sentences etc. means it could be drastically improved. -- Hestemand 10:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I agree - I will have a go at it in the next few days. Greycap 13:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Conscious that I haven't done anything on this but will try to do so soon. Greycap 23:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Some notes
[edit]Some years ago I put together some sources that could be used to expand this article, but never got around to doing so. I am removing them from my sandbox placing them here so that others can use them if they so wish:
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Wallingford House Party (Officers in the army):
The above volume shows that "the good cause" was a term used by parliament during the civil war.
on the 12th of May 1659, the Officers of the Army presented "their humble Petition and Address." The following extract from it will shew, that they were exceedingly jealous of a second Calvinistic attempt to infringe the religious liberty, (if such it may be called,) which they had long enjoyed, and from the benefits of which they still excepted their old enemies, Popery and Prelacy :—
After other observations of a similar tendency, these men of war, who considered themselves as well qualified to settle affairs of state as articles of religion, produced the following as the sixth FUNDAMENTALS of the Good Old Cause:
These Fundamental preliminaries, more tolerant on the whole than those devised by Dr. Owen and his thirteen Calvinistic associates, possessed the advantage of being enforced by sword-logic, broad intimations of which are contained in the preceding extract. Not only did the Fanatics in the army, from a selfish principle, prevent the imposition of the novel Fundamentals invented by Cromwell's fourteen divines; but "the sons of reason," the deistical members of the senate, Algernon Sidney, Harrington, Martin, and others who with less daring but with greater hypocrisy concealed their loose principles under the garb of a strict religious profession, all concurred in discountenancing this unwieldy and impracticable scheme of religious toleration.—Few men ever enjoyed such an opportunity of evincing the genuine catholicism of their sentiments, as " this Committee of Fourteen appointed to consider what were Fundamentals:" And there is not, I believe, an instance on record in which men of such vast professions more egregiously disap-, pointed the just expectations of their admirers. If enlarged ideas about religious toleration had existed in any of their breasts, they would have been displayed in one form or other while the religious tests were under discussion; but their sole anxiety in all the dehates seems to have been, to frame the terms of qualification for religious indulgence on as higoted a basis as possible, and to exclude all who did not admire the doctrine of Calvin.
Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine. A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783. Vol 5. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. "205. The Trials of Twenty-nine Regicides, at the Old Bailey, for High Treason, which began the 9th Day of October, A. D. 1660: 12 Charles II." p. 1287, 1289 "Some Particulars of the Behaviour and of the Execution of Colonel DANIEL AXTELL, and Col. FRANCIS HACKER, the 19th day of October, 1660, at Tyburn."
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-- PBS (talk) 11:06, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
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