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    OLIVER CROMWELL 25 APRIL 1599 – 3 SEPTEMBER 1658

    Dec 29, 2020 2 minutes
    WORDS: EMMA SLATTERY WILLIAMS
    “Cromwell believed that God supported his cause and that he had been chosen”

    CROMWELL’S RISE

    orn in Huntingdon, in what is now Cambridgeshire, Oliver Cromwell’s family had modest wealth and were part of the landed gentry – his father, Robert, had been an MP in Elizabeth I’s parliament of 1593. Through

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