Committee of Safety (England)
The Committee of Safety, established by the Parliamentarians in July 1642, was the first of a number of successive committees set up to oversee the English Civil War against King Charles I, and the Interregnum.
1642–1644
The initial committee of safety consisted of five members of the House of Lords: the Earls of Essex, Holland, Northumberland and Pembroke and Viscount Saye-and-Sele, and ten members of the House of Commons: Nathaniel Fiennes, John Glynn, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Henry Marten, Sir John Merrick, William Pierrepoint, John Pym, Sir Philip Stapleton, and Sir William Waller. It sat until 1644 when Parliament and their new Scottish allies agreed to replace it with the Committee of Both Kingdoms.[1]
1647
The
1659
There were two committees of safety in 1659. The first was set up on 7 May, on the authority of the
The last Committee of Safety was set up on 26 October 1659 by the high command of the
- Henry Vane the Younger[nb 1]
- Bulstrode Whitelocke
- William Sydenham[nb 1]
- John Lambert[nb 1]
- James Berry[nb 1]
- Lord Warriston(Archibald Johnston)
- Edmund Ludlow[nb 1]
- Richard Salwey[nb 1]
- John Desborough[nb 1]
- Charles Fleetwood[nb 1]
- Sir James Harrington
- William Steele
- Walter Strickland
- Henry Lawrence
- John Ireton
- Robert Tichborne
- Henry Brandrith
- Robert Thomson
- John Hewson
- John Clark(or John Clerk)
- Robert Lilburne
- Robert Bennet
- Cornelius Holland
Notes
References
- ^ a b Robert Plant, The Committee of Safety Archived 22 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, British Civil Wars website, Retrieved 2009-11-25
- ^ a b England: Committees of Safety: 1659-1660 Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine, archontology.org website Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today, Retrieved 2009-11-25
- ^ Ben Cahoon,United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, history, rulers, politics, government, 2000 (Retrieved 2009-11-25)