Wallingford House party

The Wallingford House party was a group of senior officers (Grandees) of the English New Model Army who met at Wallingford House, the London home of Charles Fleetwood.^[a] Their intention was to overthrow the Protectorate of the Lord Protector, Richard Cromwell.^[2]

On 23 April 1659 the party ended the Third Protectorate Parliament by locking the doors of the assembly rooms. On 6 May the Council of Officers meeting in Wallingford House, invited the Rump Parliament to reassemble, which it did the following day, appointing a Committee of Safety to form the executive until a new Council of State was appointed on 19 May.^[2]

References

Notes

1. Cokayne notes that Wallingford House stood at the end of the tilt-yard in Whitehall, on the site of the present Admiralty. It was so called after Sir William Knollys, Treasurer of the Household, who was created Viscount Wallingford in 1616.^[1]

Citations

1. Cokayne (1910), p. 604.
2. Keeble (2002), pp. 8–10.

Bibliography

• Cokayne, George E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdomextant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. 4. The St. Catherine Press.
• Keeble, N. H. (2002). The Restoration: England in the 1660s. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-631-23617-7.