ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the plotting of Henry Ireton against the Stuarts in the 1680s is set in context of the numerous contacts that continued between radicals of the 1640s and the community at Fleetwood's home that Henry was linked to. In the Monmouth rebellion plotting, Wildman was in contact with Henry Danvers, who Clement Ireton had worked with as part of the Fifth Monarchy movement in the 1650s and whose brother had been apprenticed to John Ireton. In the early years of the Restoration, Danvers became kin of Fleetwood and part of the nonconformist community at Fleetwood's Stoke Newington home. Henry's own plotting can also be set in the kin and economic links between the Iretons and the Greys that also emerge more clearly out of Chancery proceedings. Henry, in his own actions and connections with others who resisted Charles II and James II, had remembered Ireton and Cromwell but also stood as a physical memory of them for other radicals in the 1680s.