Life in a Revolutionary Decade in Britain (1649-1660)
Gresham College Lectures
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The Lord Protector and His Councillors Weaken
An act of oblivion passed in February 1652 formally declared the crimes and misdemeanors of the Civil War forgiven and forgotten. Old emnities were to be set aside in the interests of healing and settling. In 1655, a plan for a widespread royalist uprising was unearthed. Second, an ambitious enterprise to seize Spanish territories in the Caribbean ended in disaster. The Lord Protector and his councillors were left stunned. After the almost unbroken military victories of the civil war, God now let them a colossal defeat.
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