Reply To: Our chance to forswear allegiance

I do like the first for certain things. He was a thorn in the side of the bourgeoisie. He stopped enclosures. He stopped witch-hunts.
I never read of the parliamentary side stopping witch-hunters. In fact Hopkins flourished with roundhead protection, and had to flee when the King’s forces gained ground.
I do commend Cromwell for outlawing bear and bull-baiting, but I suspect it was more on religious grounds than anything else.
Rather than the forerunners of socialism using the revolution, wasn’t it more the revolution using them? And then packing them off to kill Irish people?
I like to think I would have kept my head down, and therefore on, whereas you would have either been hanged by Cromwellians, or hanged, drawn and quartered by Charles II for signing the death warrant.
Coppe kept his head down, and on.
I like him too.