03.45 - Jericho

"I will not seek to set up that which Providence hath destroyed,
and laid in the dust, and I would not build Jericho again." Oliver
Cromwell refuses to become a king, and a new constitution takes
effect. But Cromwell is not long for this world, and the question
of succession had still not been settled. Alice Hunt, Republic,
2024. Martyn Bennet, Oliver Cromwell, 2006. Michael Braddick (ed.),
The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, 2015. Barry Coward,
The Cromwellian Protectorate, 2002. Jonathan Healey, The Blazing
World, 2023. Paul Lay, Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of the
English Republic, 2020. Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022. Ian
Gentles, The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution, 2022. Carla
Gardina Pestana, The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s
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