An unauthorised meeting was held at Broadway in Worcestershire in January 1648, by about 80 officers from four or five Parliamentary regiments.Another primary source "Rushworth's Collections Part IV Vol.2 (Vol. 7
page 1012
" contradicts the first report and states that Herbert's regiment was not present. ) They met to discuss grievances, principally the issue of back pay. One report in a letter read out in Parliament on 24 January 1648, suggested that up to 60 of the officers present were plotting a military uprising. However no uprising took place, whether that was because the

Derby House Committee The Committee of Both Kingdoms, (known as the Derby House Committee from late 1647), was a committee set up during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms by the Parliamentarian faction in association with representatives from the Scottish Covenanters, af ...

took actions that pre-empted the insurrection or if there was no substance to the report is not known.

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