The Fifth Monarchists, or Fifth Monarchy Men, were a Protestant sect with millennialist views active between 1649 and 1660 in the Commonwealth of England. The group took its name from a prophecy that
Title page of A Brief description of the Fifth Monarchy or Kingdome (1653) by William Aspinwall.
Major-General Thomas Harrison, Fifth Monarchist leader executed as a regicide in 1660
Ian Bone speaking at the installation of the Thomas Rainsborough memorial plaque (12 May 2013), championing Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchy Men. The banner is a replica of that used by the insurgents at the time.