Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican regime and signatory to Charles I's death warrant, he was hanged, drawn and quartered by the Restoration government in 1660; a spectacle witnessed by Samuel Pepys who recorded him 'looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition'. Beginning with this grisly event, this book employs a thematic, rather than chronological approach, to illustrate the role of millenarianism and providence in the English Revolution, religion within the new model army, literature, image and reputation, and Harrison's relationship with key individuals like Ireton and Cromwell as well as groups, most notably the Fifth Monarchists.

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Dr David Farr is Deputy Head Academic of Norwich School. He is author of full length studies of other Cromwellian military-religious radicals, Henry Ireton and John Lambert, as well as general studies of Britain 1625-1689 and numerous articles on various aspects of the English Revolution in a range of academic journals.

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Introduction; Part 1; Chapter 1 1659-1660: Harrison's Capture; Chapter 2 1660: Harrison's Trial; Chapter 3 1660: Harrison's Death; Part 2; Chapter 4 1642-1651: Harrison's War; Chapter 5 1646-1649: Harrison the Regicide; Chapter 6 1646-1660: Harrison the Millenarian; Chapter 7 1649-1653: Harrison the Saint; Chapter 8 1649-1653: Harrison the Parliamentarian; Part 3 III; Chapter 9 1653-1660: Harrison's Retreat; Chapter 10 1616-1659: Harrison's Rise - From Obscurity to Lord of the Manor; Chapter 101; Conclusion;