The Cromwellian Protectorate

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Manchester University Press, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 248 pages
This book examines the nature of the first regime ever to have effective control of the British Isles and the impact that it had on England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and on Britain’s international reputation.
 

Contents

The establishment of the Cromwellian Protectorate December 1653 a conservative reaction?
7
The first year of the Cromwellian Protectorate December 1653 January 1655
24
The Instrument of Government and rule by Lord Protector and Council December 1653 September 1654
25
The first Protectorate Parliament September 1654 January 1655
41
The crisis of the Cromwellian Protectorate February 1655 June 1656
51
The Protectorates siege mentality
52
Godly rule
58
Stresses within the Cromwellian Protectorate June 1655 June 1657
73
The Protectorate and the Baltic
129
The Protectorate and France and Spain
131
The Cromwellian Protectorate and Scotland and Ireland Different attitudes to Scotland and Ireland
139
conquest and reformation
141
Punitive policies against the Irish and Scots
145
Religious reforms
149
The limited achievement of reform in Scotland and Ireland
152
The Protectorates British legacy
155

Return to rule with parliament
74
Conservative and radical Cromwellians and the making of the Humble Petition and Advice
80
The case of James Nayler
82
The Militia Bill
85
The making of a new Protectorate
87
The end of the Cromwellian Protectorate June 1657 May 1659
94
The end of the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell
95
The end of the Cromwellian Protectorate
101
The Cromwellian Protectorate and the wider world
119
The activist role of the Protectorate in international affairs
122
The Protectorate and the Dutch
125
The Cromwellian Protectorate and England and Wales
159
Opposition
160
Failure
169
Acceptance
173
Change
177
the persistent grin
189
Selected documents
196
Bibliographical essay
232
Index
241
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Barry Coward is Reader in History at Birkbeck College, University of London

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