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5 giorni fa · John Pym, Sir Thomas Fairfax and Henry Ireton emerge covered in glory, while Cromwell is repeatedly supported and praised, even – perhaps especially – when in conflict with fellow parliamentarians deemed to be holding back the cause.
5 giorni fa · Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) [c] was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France.
2 giorni fa · Those like John Lilburne and Thomas Rainsborough, wished to change society a great deal more than Oliver Cromwell, or Henry Ireton did. They wanted the revolution that the civil war reflected to go further than the so-called ‘Grandees’ of the New Model Army.
2 giorni fa · March 1643 [27 March, 1643.] The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, taking into their serious considerations the heavy pressures and calamities which now lye upon this Kingdom by this unnaturall warre raised against the Parliament; and that notwithstanding all their faithfull and uncessant Endeavours, for the preserving of His Majesty, and the whole Kingdome from the mischievous and ...
3 giorni fa · Col. Thomas Harrison MP acted as a mediator between Henry Ireton and John Lilburne in negotiations to gain Leveller support for King Charles' trial. Col. Thomas Harrison MP commanded the military escort that brought King Charles to Windsor and then to London in January 1649. Royalists were outraged this duty was entrusted to the ...
2 giorni fa · He was high sheriff in 1662, and died without issue, leaving his estate by will to his only surviving brother, Thomas Polhill, esq. of Clapham, in Surry, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Ireton, esq. by Bridget, daughter of Oliver Cromwell, by whom he left three sons; David, of whom hereafter; Henry, who died in 1753; and Charles, who was a commissioner of excise, and died in 1755 ...
2 giorni fa · After the surrender of Oxford, Ireton in January 1647 married Cromwell's daughter Bridget in the manor-house, which was the headquarters of Fairfax's army. The Whorwoods were strong royalists, (fn. 42) but old Lady Ursula Whorwood was in the house when Ireton and Bridget were married, for Ireton gave her, in return for her hospitality, an embossed silver cup which had been given him by Cromwell.
