Oliver Cromwell

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The law – essentially Cromwell's law – was enforced by the use of soldiers. Cromwell believed that women and girls should dress in a proper manner. Make-up was banned. Puritan leaders and soldiers would roam the streets of towns and scrub off any make-up found on unsuspecting women.

Cromwell shut many inns and the theatres were all closed down. Most sports were banned. Boys caught playing football on a Sunday could be whipped as a punishment. Swearing was punished by a fine, though those who kept swearing could be sent to prison.

Cromwell was buried in Westminster Abbey. This is where kings and queens were buried. In 1660, Charles II was asked to return to become king of England. One of Charles’ first orders was that Cromwell’s body should be dug up and put on ‘trial’ as a traitor and regicide. His body was put on trial, found guilty and symbolically hanged from a gallows at London. What was left of his body remains a mystery. Some say the body was thrown on to a rubbish tip while others say it was buried beneath the gallows at Tyburn. His head was put on display in London for many years to come.

Man what a sad end for such an esteemed British leader

 

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Dangerously based

 

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Dangerously based

You won’t find many leaders like him in the west

 

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The greatest leader in British history.