February 23, 2005 08:44PM
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Hi Pete
Strange of you to be a fan of a puritanical christian who took people into his army purely based on their faith
I doubt very much you would have the same vision of what the country should be like as him and his men...
But I've decided he wasn't actually that bad. I guess it could be argued that he saved britain from a more damaging revolution later. Despite being a royalist over a republican in terms of where we are now - I'm not so sure which side I would have been on in Cromwells time.
At least I understand better now the exagerated rumours that were spread around England that lead to what happened in Ireland.
Its kind of funny that Cromwell was this puritan but at the same time a very child like practical joker. I can almost imagine him in this jokey mood when he realised the king was to be beheaded, and at the same time see him later as lord protector when the burden and lonliness of leadership was enough to knock the child like spirit out of him. They must have been strange times for those that lived through them.
Simon
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