Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England

part in these disputes except a vague story told in the _Memoirs of Sir

Philip Warwick_, that “the vulgar” grew clamorous against the scheme, and that Mr. Cromwell appeared as the head of their faction. Warwick, writing long after the events he referred to, assumed as a matter of course that Cromwell opposed the King, and the mistake found easy credence.

Some years later, Crom...