The Green Ribbon Club was one of the earliest of the loosely combined associations which met from time to time in London taverns or coffeehouses for political purposes in the 17th century.[1] The green ribbon was the badge of the Levellers in the English Civil Wars, in which many of them had fought, and was an overt reminder of the radical origins of the club's loyalties.
The GreenRibbonClub was one of the earliest of the loosely combined associations which met from time to time in London taverns or coffeehouses for political...
The greenribbon can have a variety of symbolic meanings. Mitochondrial disease awareness is represented by a greenribbon. Mitochondrial disease (mito)...
lawyer of the country party and a frequenter, it would appear, of the GreenRibbonClub, he had some dealings with Richard Rumbold and other insurgent "republicans"...
Speke of Whitelackington, Somerset. His father was a member of the GreenRibbonClub, the Whig organization founded in 1675, and was a supporter of the...
or cockades, while greenribbons were another recognised Stuart symbol despite their association with the Whig GreenRibbonClub. Despite being greeted...
Richard Nelthorpe (died 1685) was an English lawyer, a conspirator in the Rye House Plot. He was son of James Nelthorpe of Charterhouse, London. On 7 December...
Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, and an outspoken member of the GreenRibbonClub and of the emerging Whig party. Despite their sharp political differences...
awareness ribbons. The meaning behind an awareness ribbon depends on its colors and pattern. Since many advocacy groups have adopted ribbons as symbols...
Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642 – 19 November 1692) was an English poet and playwright who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1689. Shadwell was born at either Bromehill...
Robert Peyton was MP for Middlesex and a prominent member of the GreenRibbonClub. This had been founded by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury...
as a sign of identification. They also identified themselves by sea-greenribbons worn on their clothing. From July 1648 to September 1649, they published...
Slingsby Bethel (1617–1697) was a Member of Parliament with republican sympathies, during the period of the English Civil War. Slingsby Bethel was the...
succeeding his brother Charles II. Along with other members of the radical GreenRibbonClub, he supported helped organise the 1680 'Great Petition' demanding...
was convened in 1682–1683 by Robert West of the Middle Temple, a GreenRibbonClub member: it is now often called the Rye House cabal. West had participated...
commissioner for assessment for Somerset in 1679. He was a member of the GreenRibbonClub and in 1679, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bridport in the...
York from gaining the throne, the radical Protestants of London's GreenRibbonClub regularly held mass processions culminating with burning "The Pope"...
stood for Monmouth but lost to Lord Herbert and was admitted to the GreenRibbonClub in November of that year. The election result was overturned on petition...
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