The More Things Change

By early 16 56, it was becoming clear that cromwell's central government did not have the resources it needed to support the domestic regime. A meeting of the major generals in may produced uniform complaints about lack of resources and they advised cromwell to call another parliament. Even though parliament was the only thing that could get him the kind of money he needed, oliver cromwell really, really didn't want to call a new parliament. And forget manipulation, let's just blatantly rig the thing.