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Cromwell 1. Oliver. 1599--1658, English general and statesman. A convinced Puritan, he was an effective leader of the parliamentary army in the Civil War. After the execution of Charles I he quelled the Royalists in Scotland and Ireland, and became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (1653--58) 2. his son, Richard. 1626--1712, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (1658--59) 3. Thomas,Earl of Essex. ?1485--1540, English statesman. He was secretary to Cardinal Wolsey (1514), after whose fall he became chief adviser to Henry VIII. He drafted most of the Reformation legislation, securing its passage through parliament, the power of which he thereby greatly enhanced. He was executed after losing Henry's favour How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In time, Catholics, Quakers, Presbyterians, and Anglicans all came to live here in peace, and with the end of Cromwellian rule and the ascent of the later Stuart kings, sympathetic to Catholicism, the colony finally stabilized and flourished. Second, and more importantly, when English Protestants tried to create a polity rooted in religion they wound up in sectarian strife and Cromwellian tyranny. The Cromwellian reforms hold the seeds of a worldview that is familiarly modern: one in which there is no fundamental (in the sense of being institutionally recognized) difference between one part of the nation and another, or between February and October, but in which change is the constant condition of the present, and the past is a foreign country. |
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