Name: Auction: Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) Letter signed, to Colonel Cox, regarding the dissolution of Parliament
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2pp. folio, dated 4th February 1658, 23.5 x 35cm, written in a secretarial hand, Cromwell reminding Cox that his previous correspondence warned of an intended insurrection by "the old Cavaleir party", Cromwell suggests that this invasion is now imminent "being much encouraged from some late Acting of some turbulent, and unquiet spirittes [...] who [...] framed a treasonable Peticion to the Howse of Commons by the name of Parliament of the Common wealth of England", and complaining about the dilatory behaviour of members of the House of Commons, which has prompted him to dissolve Parliament: "...haveing done nothing in fowerteene daies but debat whether they should owne the Government of these Nations as it is contayned in the Peticion and Advise..." that "we thought it of absolute Necessitie to dissolve the present Parliament which I have done ths day"

Letter signed, to Colonel Cox, regarding the dissolution of Parliament

Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658)

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Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658)

Letter signed, to Colonel Cox, regarding the dissolution of Parliament

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