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====Fifth Monarchy Men====
{{Main|Fifth Monarchists}}

The Fifth Monarchists or Fifth Monarchy Men were an extreme [[Puritans|Puritan]] sect<ref name="vecono" >{{cite news|title=Pepys and Evelyn, chroniclers of the English Renaissance|url=https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21727878-two-diarists-who-painted-most-vivid-portrait-17th-century-england-pepys-and-evelyn|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=31 Aug 2017|access-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215043148/https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21727878-two-diarists-who-painted-most-vivid-portrait-17th-century-england-pepys-and-evelyn|archive-date=15 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>  active from 1649 to 1660 during the [[Interregnum (England)|Interregnum]], following the [[English Civil War]]s of the 17th century.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/politicalactivi02browgoog ''Fifth Monarchy Men: Study in Seventeenth Century English Millenarianism'' by Bernard Capp] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624204501/https://books.google.com/books?id=gnMaAAAAMAAJ&dq=Fifth+Monarchists&source=gbs_navlinks_s |date=2019-06-24 }} {{ISBN|0-571-09791-X}}</ref> They took their name from a prophecy in the [[Book of Daniel]] that [[Four monarchies|four ancient monarchies]] (Babylonian, Persian, Macedonian, and Roman) would precede the kingdom of [[Christ]]. They also referred to the year 1666 and its relationship to the biblical [[Number of the beast|Number of the Beast]] indicating the end of earthly rule by carnal human beings. They were one of a number of [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]] [[English Dissenters|dissenting groups]] that emerged around this time.