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Maurice Ashley. Oliver Cromwell - Protectorate, Puritanism, Revolution: Before Cromwell summoned his first Protectorate Parliament on September 3, 1654, he and his Council of State passed more than 80 ordinances embodying a constructive domestic policy. His aim was to reform the law, to set up a Puritan Church, to permit toleration outside it ...
Há 6 dias · Recent research has thrown fresh light on the behaviour of Lieutenant-General Oliver Cromwell M.P., and the movement known as the Levellers, in the critical years 1647-1648 before the execution of King Charles I. It used to be thought that the Levellers were republican democrats with a strong social sense and that they broke with Cromwell ...
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Thomas Cromwell Portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Hans Holbein the Younger (1532–1533) Lord Great Chamberlain In office 17 April 1540 – 10 June 1540 Monarch Henry VIII Preceded by John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford Succeeded by Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex Governor of the Isle of Wight In office 2 November 1538 – 10 June 1540 Monarch Henry VIII Preceded by Sir James Worsley Succeeded ...
But Cromwell did not desire power as other great rulers had. He did not train his son Richard to be his successor, nor did he try to establish his family as a ruling dynasty. And at the height of his power he retained his deep religious belief that he was merely an instrument of God's purpose.
Oliver Cromwell is a dominant figure in the history of our country. That is why, four hundred years after he was born and 341 after he died we don’t just discuss what he was and what he did – we take sides. From an early age we line up either with the cavaliers or with the roundheads.
Oliver Cromwell is one of the most controversial characters in British history. After the execution of Charles I in 1649, Parliament was entrusted with governing England. However, Cromwell soon became dissatisfied with this system of rule. In 1653, with army backing, he sent MPs away and became the sole ruler of England.
