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Charlie Fenton
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‘For Cromwell and his fellow Puritans, as for the Scots Covenanters, opposition to the king centred on matters of religion. This was true of Cromwell from the very beginning of his parliamentary career. It is arguable that, for all the momentous issues that concentrated his mind for the rest of his life, religion remained his principal concern.’
— Jan 08, 2018 07:14PM
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Charlie Fenton
is on page 109 of 132
‘Cromwell was buried as a king. His effigy wore the ‘cap of regality’ - that is, as other observers put it, it had ‘a crown on the head’. Though it was still as Lord Protector, rather than King Oliver, that he was laid to rest in Henry VII’s chapel in Westminster Abbey, in all other respects this ceremony, ‘performed with very great majesty’, was the royal recognition that Cromwell had gone to such lengths to avoid.’
— Jan 09, 2018 08:39AM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 95 of 132
‘Originally, the Instrument contained a proposal to confer the title of king on Oliver, but, perhaps remembering the discouraging words of Bulstrode Whitelocke, Cromwell refused to hear of it. So on 16 December 1653, at Westminster Hall, four days after the Nominated Assembly had offered up its resignation, Oliver Cromwell was invested in another title with a long history: Lord Protector.’
— Jan 09, 2018 08:22AM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 78 of 132
‘With the beheading of Charles on 30 January 1646, England made its great constitutional leap in the dark. Kings had been deposed and killed before, as Bradshaw, passing sentence on Charles, reminded him. But that had always been to put another on the throne. Those who had executed Charles I had put an end not just to a king, but to kingship itself, formalised by a vote in Parliament for its abolition‘
— Jan 09, 2018 08:19AM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 57 of 132
‘Comparing Cromwell and the king can be misleading... While Charles indisputably still spoke for his party, despite his defeat and capture, Cromwell was only one of many speakers on his side. Indeed, the most noticeable thing about Cromwell in the first part of the process to extricate the king from Scottish control and impose mutually acceptable terms on him is how unnoticeable he was.’
— Jan 09, 2018 07:51AM
Charlie Fenton
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‘Oliver Cromwell, the man who dismissed both the parliamentary assemblies that sat during this period, and the army he commanded, wielded such influence that it would be another pretence to say they power really lay with the collective. So it would be absurd to exclude Cromwell from a comprehensive discussion of English and British monarchs on a technicality.‘
— Jan 08, 2018 07:45AM
