1659 PRESBYTERIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS. Accused of Trying to Keep Power of the Military to Control Royalist Members. Eschatology Samuel Jackson

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1659 PRESBYTERIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS. Accused of Trying to Keep Power of the Military to Control Royalist Members. Eschatology Samuel JacksonFascinating piece of English Civil War history. Oliver Cromwell was succeeded briefly as Lord Protector [and also General of the Army] of England for part of 1658 and part of 1659. Under Oliver, the Parliamentary Army had become the sort of personal enforcement agency of Cromwell and had actually been used to, at least according to some, force Parliament to comply with Cromwell . . . thus making England a Military State with a defacto King who had