Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Heroes of the Nations
A Series of Biographical Studies presenting the lives and work of certain representative historical characters, about whom have gathered the traditions of the nations to which they belong, and who have, in the majority of instances, been accepted as types of the several national ideals.
FOR FULL LIST SEE END OF THIS VOLUME
Heroes of the Nations
EDITED BY
Evelyn Abbott, M.A.
FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD
FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUE GLORIA RERUM.—OVID, IN LIVIAM 265.
THE HERO’S DEEDS AND HARD-WON FAME SHALL LIVE.
OLIVER CROMWELL
OLIVER CROMWELL.
(From a painting by an unknown artist, in the National Portrait Gallery.)
OLIVER CROMWELL
AND THE RULE OF THE PURITANS IN ENGLAND
BY
CHARLES FIRTH, M.A.
BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright, 1900
BY
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
