. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. announced. You are no Parliament! Begone! Give way to honester men! Put him out, he ordered, turning on the Speaker, and the soldiers hustled the members from the room. This house is to be let, unfurnished, was the sign a Royalist wag affixed later on the door of the locked Parliament chamber. England had at length arrived at what was almost absolute monarchy. 166. Cromwell, Lord Protector ofEngland (1653-58). Cromwell was ab-solute monarch, thanks to the goodwill of the most formidable body inEngland, the Puritan army. Even his
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. announced. You are no Parliament! Begone! Give way to honester men! Put him out, he ordered, turning on the Speaker, and the soldiers hustled the members from the room. This house is to be let, unfurnished, was the sign a Royalist wag affixed later on the door of the locked Parliament chamber. England had at length arrived at what was almost absolute monarchy. 166. Cromwell, Lord Protector ofEngland (1653-58). Cromwell was ab-solute monarch, thanks to the goodwill of the most formidable body inEngland, the Puritan army. Even his enemies confessed, however, that he was no imbecile or in-active ruler. As Lord Protector, his administration wascharacterized by commercial prosperity and expansion, bycolonial acquisitions,1 by the development of efficient navalpower, with attendant victories over Holland and Spain, and amost honorable alliance with France. At home he stroveearnestly to put his power on a constitutional basis. Many ofhis Puritan followers were now thorough-going Republicans,. PURITAN COSTUME 1 Jamaica, especially, was taken from Spain. Cromwell laid the foundation ofBritish colonial policy. 296 HISTORY OF EUROPE and refused to hear of a monarchy; yet the great majoritywere certainly wedded to most of the old institutions. Threetimes Cromwell convened Parliaments, but his own anomalousposition and the attitude of the extreme Republicans who satin them, made it impossible for him to work with them, andall these assemblies had to be somewhat hastily persisted, however, well convinced that God hadsummoned him to press for a final solution of the nationaldifficulties. Probably, if he had lived ten years longer, he wouldhave been able to disregard the Republican malcontents in thearmy and declare himself king. Could he have done so, theinstitutions of England would surely have been remade perma-nently, but in 1658 he died aged only fifty-nine. A largersoul than his, said one who
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