OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE PROTECTORATE

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by  WILSON, DANIEL

OLIVER CROMWELL

TUE PROTECTORATE

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IHOMAS NELSON, LONDON AND EDINRUROH.

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OLIVER CROMWELL”

THE PROTECTORATE,

By PANIEL WILSON, 7.8.4.s00n,

LONDON:

TUOMAB NELSON, PATERNOBTER ROW;

AND BD1NBUROR,
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PREFACE

nm poriod appoars te have arrived when the principles of Hit
first Revolution are to become generally tnilersiond by Tinzlish-
cma, andl when the charwaters of those gecat mien who wore the
leaulers af the people during that strazele for omr righ, shall be
drawn anew, with a juster appreciation of them than heretofary i
it has arrived, or is arviving. ‘That snch fustive, however fs stilt
no mnehallenged fret, heeomes suffofentty apparent, when we To
moinber that a royal emission, composed of men most eminent
for etation, rank, or literary fime, and nominated for the ft
aionuuont of ber Majesty's Psluce of Wostminater, fax tha New
Hrousgs of Darliement aro styled) still site, and—weighing tho
‘laim® of the noble dea,—has conceded to Hampden a niche
among Bnghini’s paitfote, bet has refused to Cromwell Ais placa
Briong,he kings.

Cronrwell can well afford to watt for the revision of that so1-
tence, a8 oF ail others, Hie virtues are mostly ao far abovn those
‘of the great majority of Fnglund’s hereditary kings, thot the in-
justice, which excludes the greatost of ell her ralers (rom that
Yacaut niche between the two Charles Stuarts, is a wrong dons
far wots to us than to him. ‘The present century hus witness
several attempts to do justion ta the memory af Crorowell. Dr.
‘Vaughan's Reaay on the Character of Cromvall and his Times,
‘was published in 1838. Ttis an impertist, end, upon the whole,
8 just, though guarded estimate of Cromwell charsetor. Tt
‘rized to produce any extensive change in the general apprecia

mm of Cromwell, meinly bocausp ite sppesranet in the form of
sur cseay, rendered it more.an expression of opinfon thn an argue
ment, and 4p left its effeot—dopending as It did on the value
previously attached to its anthor's views,--to be developed chiesiy