Above : Monument Statue For Oliver Cromwell This was Cromwell's last military action in the war. On May 28th he sailed from Youghal, and at Bristol was enthusiastically received by the crowds, who had already learned how he had crushed and slaughtered the Irish Papist rebels. In the country he had left his deeds were naturally regarded differently ; but they were longer remembered. To the English ploughman or artizan, the great Purtian General is now no more than a name, if ... Read More

Above: The Struggles For Parlimentary On the accession of George II, lord Carteret, who was popular on account of abolishing Wood's halfpence, was retained as lord lieutenant. In 1727 the Catholics prepared an address to him expressing their loyalty, and their intention to keep peaceful. It- was presented to tile lords justices, one of whom was archbishop Boulter; but they never forwarded it, and no notice was taken of it. It was chiefly through primate Boulter's in- fluence that the Catholics were disfranchised ... Read More