Introduction

After frustration with the first protectorate parliament, led oliver cromwell to prematurely dissolve body in january 16 55. Cromwell had always been god's englishman, but was he still God's englishman to deal with the royalist uprising? By h late 16 54, even charles was getting impatient With his official conspirators in the sealed knot. And very quickly, a loose knit group of more impatient royalists started demanding action. The exiled leveller, john lilburn, for example, actually put out feelers to the action party promising to assassinate the lord protector in exchange for ten thousand pounds. Though nothing came of it, shared hatred of cromwell certainly was turning