The Humble Petition and Advice

The humble petition and advice was nothing less than a deadly, earnest attempt to turn oliver cromwell into king oliver the first. It also took another stap at deciding how executive councillors would be chosen, make it easier to dump these s if they proved obnoxious. But the really big thing, the really controversial thing, was clause one, a king would be put back at the centere of england's constitutional system. A few days after the humble pet was read into parliament, john lambert, his fellow major generals and about a hundred other officers met with cromwell and implored him to reject the crown. Lambert was ticked off enough that his beloved instrument was being