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Alan OBrien
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:15 pm
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Sorry for being obtuse. In the name New Model Army - Cromwell's Army - what
form of the word 'model' is being used?
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Martin Ambuhl
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| Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:16 am
Post subject: Re: New Model Army |
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Alan OBrien wrote:
| Quote: | Sorry for being obtuse. In the name New Model Army - Cromwell's Army - what
form of the word 'model' is being used?
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It is a noun, being used as part of the adjective "New Model." The army
was one based on a new "Design, structural type; style of structure or
form; pattern, build, make" (OED). This entry (7 s.v. "model") has the
following subentry in which the applications should make it clear,
especially if you will remember that the NMA was in the mid 17th c.:
b. of immaterial things, systems, institutions, etc.
In the 17th and 18th c. often in new model, denoting a remodelling
of some institution, etc.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 43 Such a
new-devised modell, as neuer Sun saw before. .. Old
Archilochus and Theon were but botchers in their rayling
faculty.
1647 Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §10 It was now easy .. to suggest ..
that here was an entire new Model of Government in Church and
State.
1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §45. 53 That new Modle of Ethicks,
which hath been obtruded upon the world .. is no Ethicks at all.
1725 De Foe Compl. Eng. Gent. (1890) 22 Exactly after the modelle of
the Common-wealth of Rome.
1747 W. Horsley Fool (1748) II. 331 This new Modelle of Things has
quite corrupted the very Soul of Naval Affairs.
1759 Robertson Hist. Scot. viii. Wks. 1851 II. 239 Such acts as ..
paved the way for a full and legal establishment of the
presbyterian model.
1764 Foote Mayor of G. ii. Wks. 1799 I. 176 He will put us into the
model of the thing at once.
1874 Green Short. Hist. viii. §5. 508 The new faith .. borrowed from
Calvin its model of Church government.
1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 51 Limited in size, after the
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John Dean
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| Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:42 am
Post subject: Re: New Model Army |
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Alan OBrien wrote:
| Quote: | Sorry for being obtuse. In the name New Model Army - Cromwell's Army
- what form of the word 'model' is being used?
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Noun, at a hazard.
I believe the term derives from the proceedings in Parliament 23
November 1644:
"Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee of both Kingdoms,
forthwith to put the Armies into such a Posture as may keep the Line as
large as may be; and may oppose the Advance of the King's Forces, and
prevent the Enlarging of his Quarters: And likewise, upon the
Consideration of the present State and Condition of the Armies, as now
disposed and commanded, to consider of a Frame or Model of the whole
Militia, and present it to the House, as may put the Forces into such a
Posture, as may be most advantageous for the Service of the Publick.
This to be done, notwithstanding any former Ordinance of Parliament"
From: British History Online
Source: House of Commons Journal Volume 3: 23 November 1644. House of
Commons Journal Volume 3, (1802).
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=6436
Date: 21/09/2004
© Copyright 2003 University of London & History of Parliament Trust
This idea of a 'model' caused the ordinance to be known as the 'New
Model Ordinance' when it went to the Lords and the Army thus created
became the New Model Army
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John Dean
Oxford
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