Boris Johnson visits the Crown & Treaty but who did he support Cromwell or Charles 1st
I’m grateful to beer and beard writer Roger Protz for drawing attention to Boris Johnson’s visit to a pub in his constituency in Uxbridge. Yes he did wear a mask.
The pub was the Crown and Treaty a name its had since 1645 when the Treaty of Uxbridge was discussed there. This was an attempt in January and February 1645 to agree terms to end the English Civil War between representatives of King Charles 1st and the Parliamentary forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_and_Treaty
It failed although some of the proposals such as a decision on going to war resting with Parliament look relevant even now.
One wonders which side Johnson was on as a Royalist and a Parliamentarian who sits in a House of Commons which dates back to Cromwell’s victory in 1649. Both sides probably
Treaty of Uxbridge 1645
exclusion from seats in the House of Lords of Peers created [after May 1642] unless with the consent of Parliament (§ 19)
permanent submission of appointments of officers and judges to the approbation of Parliament (§ 20)
education and marriage of the King’s children being placed under Parliamentary control (§ 21)
the right of declaring peace and war might only be exercised with the assent of Parliament (§ 23)
a permanent body of Commissioners … in combination with … Scottish Commissioners to control all military forces in both kingdoms (§ 17)
long lists … of the names of those Royalists who were to be subjected to divers penalties [including execution for treason], and whole categories of unnamed persons were added, the [Parliamentary] expenses of the war being laid upon these Royalist delinquents (§ 14)
religion in England … to be brought to the nearest possible uniformity with that of Scotland (§ 5)
the King himself was to swear and sign the Solemn League and Covenant (§ 2)
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