Following the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil Wars, and later his trial and execution, Oliver Cromwell became ‘Lord Protector’ in 1653. Cromwell was a Puritan, a strict ...

On September 17, 1656, Oliver Cromwell ... thither,—satisfaction in none of these things would be given, but was denied." [9] All we ask, Cromwell told Parliament, is liberty.

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was born in Huntingdon on 25th April 1599. He was the second son of Robert Cromwell (d.1617) and his wife ...