present to Parliament called the Humble Representation of the General Council of the Army (which requested that Parliament pay the soldiers arrears and secure the future funding of the army), and a month later, on 8 January 1648, the General Council voted to terminate itself. The symbolic importance of the debates may have been a factor, 36 years later, following the Restoration of the monarchy, when King Charles II chose Putney Heath as the site of a parade of 6,000 soldiers, in October 1684. See also English Civil War Timeline of the English Civil War, 1647 Bishopsgate mutiny, April 1649 Banbury mutiny, May 1649 Notes References selected and annotated texts with an introduction by Geoffrey Robertson QC. Further reading with Supplementary Documents, selected and edited with an introduction by A.S.P. Woodhouse and foreword by A.D. Lindsay reproduced at the Internet Archive Website devoted to the debates and details of new permanent exhibition to open on 360th anniversary in St Mary's Church External links The Putney Debates 1647 St Mary’s Church Putney Putney debates The British Library 1647 in England Levellers New Model Army Republicanism in England History of the London Borough of Wandsworth 17th century in Surrey Putney