The Rise of Oliver Cromwell
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Puritan Cehadi
We don't really know, because his conversion happens in a period in which we have almost no information on him. But it looks as if he is convinced by those who convert him to puritanism that god has thrashed him in order to shake him out of his homener's complacency and build him up again for a great purpose. He finds supportive new friends in the puritan network. And they do rebuild his political fortunes, because it's almost certainly they who get him tid an m p again wit the town of cambridge,. standing on an unt government platform for radical reform of the church. It gives him a party, it gives him a network, it giving him political
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