Oliver Cromwell in the media
The Pamphleteers Protestant Champion: Viewing Oliver Cromwell Through the Media of his Day
Kevin A. Creed
The years between 1640 and 1660 witnessed in England a greater outpouring of printed material than the country had seen since the first printing press had begun operating in the 1470s.1 The breakdown of government and Church censorship in the early 1640s was almost total until the mid-1650s when Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector reimposed some controls. Not until the
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49. Donno, Andrew Marvell, 126-137, 268-273.
50. Bartolomeo De La Casas, The Tears of the Indians (London, John Phillips, trans., 1656), intro. Hill, Gods Englishman, 164.
51. Barbarous and Inhumane Proceedings, 46-48.
52. Jean Paul Perrin, History of the Vaudois (London, 1655), 1.
53. Oliver Cromwells Letters to Foreign Princes (London, 1656).
54. Aylmer, Rebellion or Revolution, 239-240.
55. Jaes Nayler and George Fox, To Thee Oliver Cromwell (London, 1655), 2-3.
56. Walter Gostello, Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell United (London, 1655).
57. William Braithwaite, The Beginnings of Quakerism (Cambridge, 1970), 440.
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