Frequently Asked Questions What is the Sealed Knot?
The Sealed Knot Ltd, is a registered charity whose aims include the promotion of interest in the life and times of the English Civil War Period (1642-1651). It’s name derives from a group, which, during the Protectorate (under Oliver Cromwell), plotted for the restoration of the monarchy. Here the similarity ends as the present Society is NOT politically motivated and has no political ambitions whatsoever. The first seeds of the idea came from Brigadier Peter Young and a number of his friends following a party, in cavalier costume, held in the summer of 1968. From these humble beginnings, the Sealed Knot has grown to boast over 5,000 members and is the largest re-enactment society in Europe and a national organisation of some considerable prestige, a fact recognised by the grant to the Society of its own coat of arms in 1983. The society is organised on the lines of a C17th army, with regiments of foote (pikes and musket), cavalry (horse) and artillery (cannon). We excel in the large a
