Quotes for 2nd Contraversy on Cromwellian Protectorate

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"To resurrect the title again was dangerous."
P Little
1 of 37
Biblical Achan, not to build Jericho again.
P Little
2 of 37
Cromwell on Kingship - "Brink of committing a terrible sin."
P Little
3 of 37
"Negative attitudes came from all parts of the country and from all parts of the political and religious scale."
B Coward
4 of 37
Major-Generals confirmed "Protectorate as a military, high tax regime."
B Coward
5 of 37
"Deep ideological divisions."
B Coward
6 of 37
Scotland and Ireland - "In both countries the campaign was a complete flop."
B Coward
7 of 37
"Iron fisted" side of the Protectorate after February 1655.
B Coward
8 of 37
It was a " REVOLUTIONARY REPUBLIC" a hybrid of constitution and dictatorship based on anti-formalism.
B Coward
9 of 37
The "country ruled by military dictatorship."
T Royle
10 of 37
"Protectorate glibly branded a military dictatorship."
A Woolrych
11 of 37
Instrument of Government - "a work of darkness."
E Ludlow (contemporary)
12 of 37
"Instrument gave more to the Protector than the monarchy had enjoyed."
A Woolrych
13 of 37
Instrument of Government - "an honest piece of constitution building."
A Woolrych
14 of 37
"Widely regarded a military dictatorship."
G Goodlad
15 of 37
"Cromwell had a genuine belief in Parliament and sought."
G Goodlad
16 of 37
Cromwell - "King in all but name."
G Goodlad
17 of 37
Cromwell - "A mighty and divided soul."
R Hutton
18 of 37
"Very important role of the army in the localities."
R Hutton
19 of 37
Major-General Charles Worsley - "Worked three times as hard."
R Hutton
20 of 37
"Disprove locked up Quakers, Berry released them."
R Hutton
21 of 37
Told Cromwell - "he took the crown off from the head of Christ and put it upon his own."
J Carew (contemporary)
22 of 37
Major-Generals ruled by "the maxims of Western tyranny."
D Hume
23 of 37
"I would not build Jericho again."
O Cromwell (contemporary)
24 of 37
Instrument of Government - "it limited me and bound my hands."
O Cromwell (contemporary)
25 of 37
"Personal Kingship was replaced by a bewildering succession of constitutional experiments."
S Kelsey
26 of 37
England was a "world turned upside down."
S Kelsey
27 of 37
"Conflict between civilians and soldiers ruined every attempt a settlement after 1649."
S Kelsey
28 of 37
"Inescapable internal contradictions between radical reformation and conservative constitutionalism."
S Kelsey
29 of 37
Vernacular Republicanism - "England was a Republic before 1649 and remained one after 1660."
S Kelsey
30 of 37
Harrison and Lambert rivalry made it "misleading to talk of the army as a united entity."
S Kelsey
31 of 37
Protectorate was "built on quicksand" only survived due to the "remarkable personality of Oliver Cromwell."
M Kishlansky
32 of 37
"Cromwell cashiered several senior officers, including Okey and Overton, for publicly opposing the Protectorate."
M Kishlansky
33 of 37
Cromwell told M-Gs to "encourage godliness and virtue."
M Kishlansky
34 of 37
"Major-Generals were detested in the localities."
M Kishlansky
35 of 37
On Kingship, Cromwell "chose loyalty to his comrades-in-arms."
M Kishlansky
36 of 37
Cromwell was "infused by the millenarian vision of a more glorious world to come."
M Kishlansky
37 of 37

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