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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell. By Monty Python. The most important thing about King Charles I is that he was 5’6” tall at the start of his reign. but only 4’8” tall at the end of it… because of…. Parliament! Cromwell ! Lord Protector of England !. Puritan!.

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Oliver Cromwell

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  1. Oliver Cromwell By Monty Python

  2. The most important thing about King Charles I is that he was 5’6” tall at the start of his reign

  3. but only 4’8” tall at the end of it… because of…..

  4. Parliament! Cromwell ! Lord Protector of England ! Puritan!

  5. Born 1599 and died in 1658,September!

  6. Was at first ONLY !! MP for HuntingdonBUT Then ……

  7. He led the Ironside Cavalry at Marston Moor

  8. In 1644 and won

  9. And then he founded the New Model Army

  10. And praise be, beat the cavaliers at Naseby

  11. And the king fled up north like a bat…………. to the Scots !!

  12. But under the the terms of John Pymm’s Solemn League and Covenant, the Scots handed the king Charles I over to…

  13. Parliament ! Cromwell ! Lord Protector of England !! AND HIS WARTS!

  14. BORN IN 1599 AND DIES IN 1658 SEPTEMBER But alas !!!

  15. OY VAY!

  16. Disagreement then broke out Between the Presbyterian Parliament and the military

  17. who meant to have a independent bent….And so !!

  18. The 2nd civil war broke out and the Roundhead ranks

  19. Faced the cavaliers at Preston Banks

  20. And the King lost again!Silly thing !STUPID GITG ! Cromwell’s Ironside regiment

  21. And Cromwell sent Colonel Pride to purge the House of Commons of the Presbyterian Royalists leaving behind only the Rump Parliament

  22. Which appointed a high Court at Westminster Hall

  23. To indict Charles I for …. TYRANNY !!

  24. OOOOHHH !!! LAST PORTRAIT OF CHARLES I ….. AT HIS TRIAL

  25. Charles was sentenced to death

  26. Even though he refused to accept that the court had ….JURISDICTION !

  27. SAY GOOD BYE TO HIS HEAD !! Charles I led to his execution

  28. POOR KING CHARLES LAID HIS HEAD ON THE BLOCKJANUARY 1649

  29. DOWN CAME THE AXE, AND

  30. In the silence that followed, the only sound that could be heard was a solitary giggle from…. Charles I ‘s funeral

  31. Oliver Cromwell !! Lord Protector of England !!

  32. OLE !

  33. Born in 1599 and died in 1658 Oliver Cromwell’s death mask

  34. Then he smashed Ireland!Massacrce at Drogheda After the massacre, Cromwell sought to explain his actions in a letter to William Lenthall, speaker of the English Parliament: "...I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbued their hands in so much innocent blood, and it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future, which are satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remourse and regret...."

  35. Set up the Commonwealth and more!

  36. He crushed the Scots at Worcester

  37. And beat the Dutch at sea in 1653

  38. and then he dissolved the Rump Parliament

  39. And with Lambert’s consent, wrote the Instrument of Government Major John Lambert Commonwealth Seal

  40. Under which Oliver was Protector … AT LAST !!!

  41. THE END !! CROMWELL’S HEAD

  42. Monty Python

  43. Then he smashed Ireland !! The New Model Army

  44. Then he smashed Ireland !

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