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Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) ... As Lord Protector, Cromwell was aware of the Jewish community's involvement in the economics of the ...
The Protectorate, officially the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was the English form of government lasting from 16 December 1653 to 25 May 1659, under which the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with their associated territories were joined together in the Commonwealth of England, governed by a Lord Protector.
In 1653, after dissolution of the Rump Parliament, the Army Council adopted the Instrument of Government, by which Oliver Cromwell was made Lord Protector of a united "Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland", inaugurating the period now usually known as the Protectorate.
Standard of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. Lord Protector (plural: Lords Protector) was a title that has been used in British constitutional law for the head of state. It was also a particular title for the British heads of state in respect to the established church.
The Rule of the Major-Generals, was a period of direct military government from August 1655 to January 1657, [1] during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate. [2] England and Wales were divided into ten regions, [3] each governed by a major-general who answered to the Lord Protector.
The Cromwell family is an English aristocratic family. Aristocratic members of the family descend from Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, and Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector. The line of Oliver Cromwell descends from Richard Williams (alias Cromwell), son of Thomas Cromwell's sister Katherine and her husband Morgan Williams. Peerages and ...
A rare letter written by Oliver Cromwell in 1648 will be sold at an online auction in Edinburgh. ... One highlight in the collection is a letter by geologist Charles Lyall to the Scottish Lord ...
The following baronetcies were conferred by the lord protector Oliver Cromwell (all the Cromwellian baronetcies became invalid on the restoration of monarchy, 29 May 1660): [10] [n] 25 June 1657, John Read of Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire. [7] — Read had a baronetcy before the interregnum, so, when Cromwell's baronetcies passed into oblivion ...