Oliver Cromwell
• Puritan member of Parliament.
• Led the army of Parliament/Puritans
against Charles /nobles.
• Parliament wins and Charles I is
executed.
• Parliament cannot decide on a new
government!
• Cromwell takes over and makes
himself dictator.
Cromwell Con’t
• He became Lord
Protector of England
after Parliament offered
him the title of King of
England and he refused.
• People did not like his
strict rule!!
• He banned drinking,
dancing, and gambling
because he was a strict
Puritan.
• 1649- Cromwell
savagely crushed an
Irish rebellion.
• 3,000 Royalists were
butchered after they
had surrendered!
• England then became a
military dictatorship
under Cromwell.
• The Scots invited
Charles II to become
their King and Cromwell
declared war and won
forcing Charles II to flee
back to Europe.
• Cromwell
CANCELED
Christmas!
• If the military
smelled your
goose cooking on
Christmas they
would steal it!
• 1656 a bright comet flying through the sky
was seen as a bad omen!
• 1657: The plague returns to England, killing
one sixth of London.
• Cromwell dies in 1658 and his
son Richard is a total failure as
ruler.
King James I
First Stuart Monarch
• Thought of himself as an Absolute Monarch.
• He did not like the idea of Parliament having
much power.
“ The State of the Monarchy…is the supremest
thing upon earth: for Kings are not only God’s
lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon throne,
but even by God himself are called Gods.”
• He also DID NOT LIKE SMOKING! He wrote an essay
called: "A Counterblast to Tobacco“ in which he
said,
“ Smoking, a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to
the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the
lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof,
nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of
the pit that is bottomless."
• James hated the Puritans.
• Was James VI of Scotland but when he
became King of England his name changed to
James I.
• Commissioned the King James version of the
bible.
• He added thees and thous to make it sound
older than it really was.