Repulse Bay Hotel
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on SATURDAY 11th December 1926. DINNER $4.00 per head
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RICHARD CROMWELL. ho should provide for a successor
TERGENTENARY OF A.
FAILURE.
changed his policy Richard Cromwell was appointed to the Committed or Trade and Naviga tion towards the end of 1655. Ha was rafeed to the new Upper had doubts about him. However, Houge, but the stern; republicans.
Richard was received as the heir
History never placed on her atago a character more ironic than Richard Cromwell, second Pro- tector of England. The irony Ues to the throne when he travelled in the fact that, in a State which formal nomination seems to have the country, though the Protector's has come to regard constitutional been left to the last moment. monarchy as the ideal form
The old Hon died, and it appear-
of government, Richard" Crom-
wall fell bozause he was od that Richard was to have the
an almost idoni figure for a
safest of thrones there is not a constitutional monarch. Born dog that wags his tongue, so great a century later, raised by the same a calm are we in France sent accident to the same position. congratulations, Spain suggested there is no reason to doubt that peace, Holland was delighted. ho would have been revered by But storms began to gather. There posterity as a good ruler. A man was no money in the Treasury, and of regular life, constitutionally a Parliament had to be called. At moderate in his ideas, not quite once the old enmity between Par without some moral courage, hellament and the Army began to surprised his critics by the dig-appear
The Parliament met at
nity with which he bore himself the end of January, 1659, and was on the few occasions when he had supposed to be eminently safe. to make a public appearance. But Richard made an excellent speech, England was not yet ripe for such fand good majorities were obtained. a ruler. Charles I. lost his head But the Committee of Grievances and James II. his crown because began to exhibit the surly temper neither had the instincts of a con- outside, Council of Officers became titutional ruler; Richard lost his menacing, Flestwood ignored" a protectorats because in him those summons to Whitehall. Finally, Instincts were too strong.
|Richard was left to choose between
"Gentle and Virtuous."
Richard Cromwell, third son of the Parliament and the Army, and, the Great Protector, was born on after some hesitation, capitulated October 4, 1626, was educated at to the officers and dissolved Par- Felsted, and probably served for Hnment... a'time in the Commonwealth Army. Probably there,was from the first some strain of indolence in him, In the confused period that fol- for his father thought him idle. lowed it is possible that he and He was admitted to 'Lincoln's Inn his brother Henry considered à in 1647 and, two years later, after Restoration. but, his power was: protracted negotiations over pet vanishing. Parliament was will tlements, he married Dorothying to make him a handsome allow- Mayor. At this time of his life ance for his father's sake, but he was a considerable sportsman.
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Charles did not even pay him the without power. The arrangement compliment of being afraid of him, does not seem to have been main- and, although one attempt was Cromwell's original idea was to tained, for in April, 1600, he was made to declare him a conspirater, keep his sons away from State appealing to Monk for help. Socn he was allowed to come back affairs, but the pressure of the after the end came, and he went quietly as John Clarke in 1880, and to live at Cheshunt with his Protectorate and the demand that lover to France.
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