Cromwell Defended the Instrument of Government

According to the strument of government, a parliament must sit for at least five months before it could be disbanded. Believing that any delay in dissolving him would only invite further mischief, cromwell came up with a brilliant and transparently devious idea. So on january 20 second, 16 55, exactly five lunar months since the first session of parliament,. cromwell spent two hours denouncing the whole lot of them and then declared the first protectorate. Parliament dissolved. It didn't take men with guns to clear out the m ps this time, though it did lead to the direct rule of men with guns. But trying to simply govern the country would not be the lord protector