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Commonwealth and the protectorate - Coggle Diagram
Commonwealth and the protectorate
Religious and political issues
the rule of the Rump Parliament
1649–1653,
its achievements and dismissal;
the Parliament
of the Saints (Barebones)
Begginings
Tasks
In session
the Instrument of Government;
Cromwell as Lord Protector,
royalist plots,
the offer of the
throne
the role of the army
the rule of the Major Generals;
Cromwell in Ireland
Drogheda
September 10 Aston was summoned to surrender when he refused Cromwell began to bombard the st mary's area of the town
those who managed to escape were murdered in cold blood the next day
officers murdered and every 10th one sent to barbados
cromwell sought to jsutify the unjustifyable
Wexford
-11 October Cromwell opened fired on castle
priests and the friars were primary target but as many as 300 civilians and soliders were drowned as they tried to escape from the sea.
cromwell asserted massacre was on gods will
land confication
May 1650 Cromwell principle aim been achieved. royalist cause in Ireland lost
Prevent Irish rising land of defeated royalist confiscated and given to protestant settlers. By 1660 catholic ownership land was bare 20%
land provided way for rump to meet heavy financial commitments
soliders encouraged accept land as payment
land offered to creditors of parliament since 1642
suggests it was finance as much as religoun or politics taht dictated commonweaths policy against finance
death of Oliver Cromwell.