‘Wondered at as an owl’
Blair Worden: Cromwell’s Bad Idea, 7 February 2002
Cromwell’s Major-Generals: Godly Government during the English Revolution
by Christopher Durston.
Manchester, 270 pp., £15.99, May 2001,0 7190 6065 6 Show More
by Christopher Durston.
Manchester, 270 pp., £15.99, May 2001,
“... presiding over a war-torn nation where the customary bonds of local co-operation had broken. As Christopher Durston remarks, their reforming achievement was restricted to the closing of a few hundred alehouses, the rounding up of a few hundred vagabonds, the ejection of a few ungodly ministers from their livings. The nation’s moral and sexual ... ”
