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‘You Are No Parliament!’

By Edmund Ludlow

In April 1653, Oliver Cromwell learnt that Parliament was planning to prevent him from packing the Commons with yes-men.

Christmas Under Cromwell

By John Evelyn

In 1657, Sir John Evelyn celebrated Christmas in a church for the first time in years. Unfortunately, someone told the authorities what he was doing.

The Arrest of the Five Members

By Edmund Ludlow

King Charles I ended two years of uneasy peace with his Parliament by bursting into the Commons with a heavily-armed tactical unit.

The Royal Oak

By Samuel Pepys And King Charles II

In 1680, Samuel Pepys sat down with Charles II to record how, many years before, a bold double-bluff saved the King from Cromwell’s men.

The Return of King Charles II

By John Evelyn

Almost nine years after Oliver Cromwell’s army drove him from England, King Charles II returned at their invitation, and John Evelyn was there to see it.

A Cavalier Attitude

By William King

Royalist soldier Sir Jacob Ashly exemplified a Christian gentleman in the heat of battle.

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