Life under Cromwell: everything you wanted to know
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Did the Working Classes Have a Better Standard of Living?
Under Republican rule, ordinary people's lives were considerably worse off than they would have been under the monarchy before the civil wars. The republican regime is distinguished by two constant factors: a huge army and navy and they cost. Warfare, especially with foreign privateers sweeping up English merchant shipping, sends the economy into recession.
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