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(More customer reviews)Okay, Cromwell is the guy who heard voices, thought himself divinely appointed to remove his sovereign (who himself held fast to the proper and ancient concept of divine right of Kings), and then refused the title of King but held even more powers during his "protectorate." Forgive me if I barf that England looks to the bi-polar schizophrenic lunatic as a founder of a Parliamentary system and hold this myth so strongly that they place Cromwell's statue in front of the House of Commons. I'd sooner p*ss in his skull.
Meanwhile Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave gives us a leaden retelling of the second civil war from Cromwell's assumed and presumed legitimacy in "Oliver Cromwell, H. H. the Lord Protector and the Royalist Insurrection against His Government of March, 1655."
I can't quibble with Palgrave's historical account, for it is a biased work from start to finish and selects its primary sources accordingly and unapologetically so.
For a balanced account, look elsewhere. But for Cromwell and Protectorate apologists this is an equivalent shaky twig to add to the pile propping up the feeble argument that overthrowing the rightful and lawful King of England was somehow an excusable affair.
Soviet disinformation has its birth in documents such as this.
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1903 edition by Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., London.
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