OLIVER CROMWELL – HERO OR VILLAIN? PART FIVE Through the winter of 1644/45 Parliament had been debating the ‘Self Denying Ordinance’, which proposed that members of Parliament could not also hold military commands. The act was finally passed in April 1645, and there was to be a period of grace of forty days, after which all commissions held by members of the Commons or the Lords must be relinquished.
OLIVER CROMWELL - HERO OR VILLAIN? PART FIVE
OLIVER CROMWELL - HERO OR VILLAIN? PART FIVE
OLIVER CROMWELL - HERO OR VILLAIN? PART FIVE
OLIVER CROMWELL – HERO OR VILLAIN? PART FIVE Through the winter of 1644/45 Parliament had been debating the ‘Self Denying Ordinance’, which proposed that members of Parliament could not also hold military commands. The act was finally passed in April 1645, and there was to be a period of grace of forty days, after which all commissions held by members of the Commons or the Lords must be relinquished.