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  • OLIVER CROMWELL’S KIN, 1643-1726
    DAVID FARR
    This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608–80), Henry Ireton (1611–51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618–92). It seeks to develop our picture of their positions from the context of their kin link to Cromwell and how their private worlds shaped their...

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  • BROKERAGE AND NETWORKS IN LONDON’S GLOBAL WORLD
    DAVID FARR
    The Londoner John Blackwell (1624-1701), shaped by his parents’ Puritanism and merchant interests of his iconoclast father, became one of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army captains. Working with his father in Parliament’s financial administration both supported the regicide and benefitted financially from the subsequent sales of land from those defeated in the civil wars. Surviv...

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  • MAJOR-GENERAL HEZEKIAH HAYNES AND THE FAILURE OF OLIVER CROMWELL’S GODLY REVOLUTION, 1594–1704
    DAVID FARR
    Hezekiah Haynes was shaped by the Puritanism of his father’s network and experienced emigration to New England as part of a community removing themselves from Charles I’s Laudianism. Returning to fight in the British Civil Wars, Haynes rose to become Cromwell’s ruler of the east of England, tasked with bringing about a godly revolution, and in rising to prominence he became the...

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  • MAJOR-GENERAL THOMAS HARRISON
    DAVID FARR
    Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican regime and signatory to Charles I’s death warrant, he was hanged, drawn and quartered by the Restoration government in 1660; a spectacle witnessed by Samuel Pepys who recorded him ’looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition’. Beginning with this gri...

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  • COLONEL PHILIP JONES, OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE BRITISH REVOLUTIONS IN SOUTH WALES
    DAVID FARR
    This volume centres on Colonel Philip Jones but touches on others – most notably, Griffith Lloyd and Rowland Dawkins – who were part of his political network. These three men, all from Glamorgan and linked as kin, emerged from lives on the fringes of Welsh gentry status to imprint themselves on the wider world and historical record as part of the military struggle against Charl...

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