This is a collection of articles, some in Adobe PDF format, relating to John Hampden, the Civil Wars, and the 17th century in general. The copyright to these documents resides with the John Hampden Society (except where otherwise stated) and may only be downloaded and printed for purposes of private study.
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Hampden House Gardens and Park: A Bucks Gardens Trust Research and Recording Project
The link below provides access to a dossier for Hampden House Park and Gardens prepared as part of the Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Research and Recording Project. Work on this project started in 2014 and the dossier was published in September 2020. This site is one of several hundred designed landscapes in the county identified in ... Read moreJohn Drinkwater’s notes on his book – John Hampden’s England
A transcript of handwritten notes made by John Drinkwater on the reverse of pages of the typescript of his 1933 biography, John Hampden’s England. Click hereFacsimile of the Domesday Book entry for Great and Little Hampden
A copy of the entry for Hampden in the Domesday Book Click Here The Domesday is not easy to read. It is written in a heavily abbreviated form of Latin with small marks to show where a letter or letters have been left outThe origins of the English Civil War – a short video clip
A video clip produced by the Royal Holloway University Click here Causes of the English Civil WarA Military Historian’s Civil War
Professor Ian Beckett's illustrated talk at the Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury, on 6th July 2019.John Hampden’s Will & Testament
The text of John Hampden’s last will and testament. Pages 99 – 105 of the document. Click Here Dated 1636 with a codicil added at the start of the Civil War on 30th June 1642 (a year before his death).The Battle of Chalgrove 1643 – Simon Marsh’s narrative
The Battle of Chalgrove – Simon Marsh’s narrative An account by Simon Marsh of the Battle of Chalgrove drawing on contemporaneous accounts and relevant historic maps.The Battle of Chalgrove – links to reference material
There is a wealth of information on the website of Colonel John Hampden’s Regiment. Click on the link below for access, and then click on the “Further Reading” box. The website of Colonel John Hampden’s RegimentThe Death of John Hampden
The death of John Hampden by Professor John Adair, the President of the John Hampden Society Click here An article by Hampden’s latest biographer into the controversial circumstances surrounding Hampden’s death and the exhumation of his presumed body by Lord Nugent in 1828.The Long Parliament and John Hampden
The Long Parliament and John Hampden by Dr Paul Hooper A much longer successor to Dr Hooper’s previous work, split into chapters as follows: Chapter 1 – Preface and background Chapter 2 – The opening weeks, elections, the dissolutions of 1629 & 1640 Chapter 3 – The trial of Strafford Chapter 4 – The Star ... Read moreJohn Hampden in the Short Parliament 1640
An in-depth look at Hampden’s activities during the famous Short Parliament of April/May 1640, by Dr Paul Hooper one of the Society’s leading historians. Click hereJohn Hampden – War Leader? by Jonathan Keen
A scholarly assessment of Hampden’s role as both a political and military leader during the period 1641-1643, written as a third-year university dissertation by Jonathan Keen. Click hereMacaulay’s Critical and Historical Essays No.1 – John Hampden
A link to Lord Macaulay’s review of Lord Nugent’s 1831 biography of John Hampden. Macaulay comments on Hampden’s life and its significance . This is a part of one of Macaulay’s most important works, hosted on the Project Gutenberg website. Some of the information about Hampden is now known to be inaccurate, but this long ... Read moreShared Memory: John Hampden, New World and Old by Dr Maija Jansson
Published in the December 2008 issue of The Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, this meticulously-researched article by Dr Maija Jansson looks at the way in which Macaulay shaped the myths we associate with Hampden, and how the Patriot’s memory inspired the American colonists. Click here Dr Jansson was Director Emerita of the Yale Center for Parliamentary ... Read moreHampden’s Disinterment
An article in Chambers’ Book of Days about Lord Nugent’s supposed disinterment of Hampden’s body in 1828. Scroll down to the third article. Click hereThe Life and Death of John Hampden Junior
An investigation by Roy Bailey, one of the Society’s founders, into the mystery surrounding the death of John Hampden’s eldest son. Click hereWas Cromwell at the Battle of Aylesbury?
An investigation by Bob Hammond,the Society’s former Vice-Chairman, into some contradictory accounts. Click hereThe First Green Jackets?
An article, by Roy Bailey, tracing the history of the Royal Green Jackets (now a part of The Rifles) back to Hampden’s Greencoats. Written for the Regimental Association’s annual journal Swift and Bold. Click hereJohn Hampden – The Rise From Obscurity 1594 – 1636
John Hampden – The Rise From Obscurity 1594 – 1636 by Roy Bailey One of the four papers presented to the Day School which the Society held jointly with the Cromwell Association at Thame on Saturday 27 November 2004.The Downing Street Campaigns
A description of the campaign The Downing Street Campaign – Patriot No. 28 Reply from the DCMS March 2000 Reply from Westminster City Council April 2000 A copy of the reply from Margaret Hodge MP (Secretary of State for DCMS) rejecting the call to change the name of 10 Downing Street to Hampden House Reply ... Read moreA History of Hampden House
A History of Hampden House by Tim Oliver A history of John Hampden’s ancestral home by the present owner.Great Hampden Parish Register
Great Hampden Parish Register The complete transcription of the Hampden family entries in the register of St Mary Magdalene Church, Great Hampden, by Derek Lester. Entries in the Parish Register of Great Hampden Church by Reverend Robert Lenthall in August and September 1647 Robert Lenthall’s record of the deaths at Great Hampden of his wife ... Read moreA Ship Money protest
A Ship Money protest A transcription of the protest by the people of Chesham against the Ship Money assessment in 1635.Visit to the home of John Hampden the Patriot
Visit to the home of John Hampden the Patriot A transcription of an article in the Monthly Record of the Westbourne Park Baptist Chapel of a visit to Hampden House in 1902.Charles I and his Parliaments: The Road to Civil War
A precis of an essay written by one of the Society’s Trustees at the end a series of University lectures on the Early Stuarts by Brian Cox Charles I and his Parliaments: The Road to Civil WarPhilip, Lord Wharton
An article about a revolutionary aristocrat who married Arthur Goodwin’s daughter Jane. From the Journal of the United Reform Church History Society by K.W. Wadsworth Click hereThe Great Hampden Walk – historic sites and scenery
A circular five mile walk through beautiful countryside starting at the car park of the Hampden Arms at Great Hampden. The walk is mostly on bridleways and paths passes Hampden House and Church, and the Ship Money Memorial. The walk was devised by Helen Lodge for the Chiltern Society. Click here: Hampden_Monument WalkJohn Hampden’s Regiment of Foot.
An article on the organisation and financing of John Hampden’s Regiment of Foot. Please click to download