Oliver Cromwell: Beheaded
Oliver Cromwell was executed two and half years AFTER his death!
Key words
- Puritan: a member of an English religious group in the 16th and 17th centuries who wanted to make church ceremonies simpler
During the 17th century the Puritans destroyed many decorations in English churches.
- Militia: a military force that operates only some of the time and whose members are not soldiers in a permanent army
A UN force was sent in to stop fighting between three rival militias.
- Instrumental in: If someone or something is instrumental in a process, plan, or system, that person or thing is one of the most important influences in causing it to happen
She was instrumental in bringing about the prison reform act.
- Precedent: an action, situation, or decision that has already happened and can be used as a reason why a similar action or decision should be performed or made
There are several precedents for promoting people who don't have formal degrees.
- Posthumously: after a person's death
He died in battle and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Read to find the answers
- Which way of life did Oliver Cromwell embrace?
- What did he believe had not gone far enough?
- Who did he execute?
- What happened after he died?
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon in 1599 and remained relatively unknown until the English Civil Wars. He initially made his living as a small landowner, but his spiritual awakening led him to embrace the Puritan way of life at a time of extreme political and religious unrest in England.
He was elected to Parliament for Huntingdon, believing that the Reformation had not gone far enough and that Catholic beliefs and practices needed to be completely removed from the Church.