Historical and Critical AccOUNT

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OLIVER CROMWELL,

Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND and IRELAND.

After the Manner of Mr. BAYLE.
Drawn from Original Writers and State Papers.

To which is added,

An APPENDIX of Original Papers,
Now first published.

By WILLIAM HARRIS.

Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.

CICERO,

LONDON:

Printed for A. MILLAR in the Strand.

MDCCLXII.

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CONTENTS.

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Trade

Allied to the best

ROMWELL's birth and parentage.

no disgrace to a gentleman, p. 1-3.

Of the learning of Cromwell, p. 4. Vicious in youth,

p. 5. Marries p. 6. Character of Mrs. Cromwell,

p. 6-8. Reports concerning the poverty of Cromwell,

P. 9. Reflections on them, p. 10. Of the Religion of

Cromwell, p. 11. An original letter of his to Mr.

Storie, p. 12. Of his enthusiasm, p. 13-23. Crom-

well courteous and affable, and inclined to buffoonery, p. 24.

Though on necessary occasions he kept state to the full,

p.27. Of his want of eloquence, p. 34. Mr. Hume

cenfured, P: 35- Cromwell's speech to the Swedish

ambaffador commended, p. 36. Cromwell no bigot,

P. 37. Mischief of bigottry, ibid. Cromwell the

great Patron of religious liberty, p. 38-45. Falls in

with the Puritans, p. 45. Short state of the cafe be-

tween them and the Prelatifts, p. 46.

Character of Court-Prelates in the times of James and

Charles I. p. 47. Of the severe measures taken in the

times of the latter of these Princes, p. 50. Cromwell

with others prepare to leave the kingdom, p. 55. Are

Stop'dby a proclamation, ibid. Reflections thereon, p. 56.

Of Cromwell's oppofition to the draining the Fenns,

p. 56. Of the parliament in 1641, p. 59. Justly ce-

lebrated for their noble deeds, p. 62-65. High cha-

racters of it by Mr. Sidney and Mr. Trenchard, p. 69.

Account of the remonstrance of the state of the kingdom,

p. 70-76. The Parliament puts itself in a state of

defence-1s adhered to by Cromwell, who raises a

troop of horse, and difciplines them in a most extraordi-

nary manner. Praise of Cromwell's army by Lord
Clarendon, p. 76-85. Of Cromwell's first actions
in the War, p. 85. Lord Holles's charge of cowardice
against him recited, p. 87. Hated and envied by very
powerful persons. Account of a confultation to accuse him