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Oliver Cromwell Quiz #1

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Year of Birth
1599
Town of Birth
Huntingdon
Religious conviction
Calvinist / Puritain
Name of schoolteacher who influenced his beliefs
Dr. Thomas Beard
Name of father
Robert
Name of mother
Elizabeth Steward
Descended from the sister of this famous advisor to Henry VIII
Thomas Cromwell
His Uncle Sir Oliver Cromwell owned this famous estate
Hichingbrooke House
The above entertained James I with this favourite bird of his
Hawk
The two constituencies for where hes was MP
Huntingdon, Cambridge
Full name of wife
Elizabeth Bourchier
What poet John Milton called him
"our chief of men"
Number of weeks he deliberated whether to take the crown
6
Army association he was first part of
Eastern Association
Earl he was second in command to for the above
Earl of Manchester
Solo in command, he won this decisive victory at this battle against Scottish Engagers
Preston
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Term for the bigshots in the New Model Army who mistrusted the Levellers
Grandees
Fortified Irish port towns he besieged and massacred
Drogheda, Wexford
Decisive victory against Scots at this battle after proclamation of Charles II as king
Dunbar
Constituted this Parliament after dissolving the Rump by snatching ceremonial mace
Barbones Parliament
Name of the first Constitution of the Commonwealth of England drafted by Lambert
Instrument of Government
Year he became Lord Protector
1653
His yearly salary as Lord Protector in Pounds
100,000
Welcomed back this group after they were explled by Edward I
Jews
Changed his signature from Oliver Cromwell to this when he became Protector
Oliver P
Where he was executed posthumously
Tyburn
Two other people who's severed heads were placed on poles outside Westminster Hall
Ireton and Bradshaw
This reportedly raged in Europe on the day of his death
Storm
What ordinance was Cromwell and one other MP exempt to, concerning not simulataneously being a member of Parliament and army leader
Self-denying ordinance
The leader of the Parliamentary 'Peace' party during the civil war
Denzil Holles
Number of Parliamentary members identified by New Model army as enemies in 1648 and expelled
11
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