Cromwell's life and legacy have aroused enormous controversy.

Cromwell's Cochrane is much older and has no real resemblance to Corbett's, which did not bother the writers.

Father Christmas is considered a papist symbol by Puritans, and later banished from England until the Restoration of Charles II shortly after Oliver Cromwell's death.

* May 15 – John Thurloe is arrested for high treason for his support of Oliver Cromwell's regime.

Little is known about Thomas Cromwell's early life.

In 1878, his birthplace was still of note: " The site of Cromwell's birthplace is still pointed out by tradition, and is in some measure confirmed by the survey of Wimbledon Manor, quoted above, for it describes on that spot ' an ancient cottage called the smith's shop, lying west of the highway from Richmond to Wandsworth, being the sign of the Anchor.

In Europa Universalis III by Paradox Interactive, Lord / Lady Protector is applied to a country's head of state under the Republican Dictatorship form of government, the first natural occurrence being Oliver Cromwell's formation of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Robert II is said to have built a castle on the island which was demolished by Cromwell's soldiers in 1653.

William Blackstone later wrote that " if judgment of death be given by a judge not authorized by lawful commission, and execution is done accordingly, the judge is guilty of murder ; and upon this argument Sir Matthew Hale himself, though he accepted the place of a judge of the Common Pleas under Cromwell's government, yet declined to sit on the crown side at the assizes, and try prisoners, having very strong objections to the legality of the usurper's commission ".

It is believed that the destruction of the Chapel of St James by Cromwell's men took place at this time.

The reference is to Charles II's famous escape from Cromwell's Roundheads, and Charles was restored to the throne in 1660.

It is close to an ancient Roman road, and was the scene of Oliver Cromwell's first advantage over Royalists during the English Civil War at Gonerby Moor.

Every June there is a re-enactment of the 1643 siege of Wythenshawe Hall by Cromwell's troops.

In October 1652 Oliver Cromwell's spy master John Thurloe received a report that a Frenchman in Rotterdam, referred to as ' a subtle mathematician ', was having a ship built to his design " which is to go with certain instruments without sail, with incredible strength and swiftness, either with or against the wind.

It is " Cromwell's Table ", which originally graced Shuckborough House, just opposite the church.

There is no mention in the film of Ireton marrying Cromwell's daughter.

He is rightly called by Sir J. K. Laugkiton ( in the Dictionary of National Biography ) Cromwell's " trusted partisan ", a character which he maintained in the active and responsible part taken by him in the events which led up to the trial and execution on 30 January 1649 of King Charles.

It is fairly certain that Cromwell's government was aware of these intrigues, and it is probable that Wildman purchased impunity by giving information of some kind to Cromwell's spy master John Thurloe.

* William Erbery ( or ' Erbury ') ( 1604 – 1654 ) is credited with convincing Oliver Cromwell's daughter to become a Seeker.

* Anthony Hope's novel The Prisoner of Zenda ( see " Literature ", above ) has been the basis for many film and stage adaptations, the first film version being in 1913 ; the best-known film version is John Cromwell's 1937 film.

The Annotated Pratchett File notes that Suffer-Not-Injustice Vimes is closely modelled on Oliver Cromwell, and that the name of his supporters, the Ironheads, is a portmanteau of Roundheads and Ironsides, Cromwell's faction and regiment, respectively.

Cromwell's father Ralph R. Radabaugh's claim to fame was his patented invention of the " amusement park swing " ride, called the " Monoflyer ", of which a variation can still be seen in use at most carnivals today.

After a promising start, Cromwell's many early pictures at Columbia Pictures and elsewhere were mostly inconsequential and are largely forgotten today.

The name of Cromwell lives on in the town today in both the public house " The Cromwell Arms " and the remains of a nearby stone arch, known locally ( and incorrectly ) as " Cromwell's Arch ".

The hamlet, which even today comprises just a church, dedicated to St John the Baptist and a rare example of the Commonwealth style ( having been rebuilt during the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell's rule ), a working farm and a few houses.

English republican dictator, Oliver Cromwell's campaign was characterised by its uncompromising treatment of the Irish towns ( most notably Drogheda ) that had supported the Royalists during the English Civil War.

The Seaforths ' royalist inclinations led to Lewis becoming garrisoned during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms by Cromwell's troops, who destroyed the old castle in Stornoway.

Marvell, in his Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland uses a regular form ( two four-foot lines followed by two three-foot lines ) modelled on Horace, while Cowley wrote " Pindarique " odes which had irregular patterns of line lengths and rhyme schemes, though they were iambic.

The whole party was more or less in sympathy with the Commonwealth, and Cudworth was consulted by John Thurloe, Cromwell's secretary to the council of state, in regard to university and government appointments.

" The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 ", a famous painting by John Everett Millais, depicted a Royalist fleeing from Cromwell's forces and hidden in an oak.

Cromwell's efforts to overcome the shadow cast over his career by Wolsey's downfall were successful.

However Cromwell's success in the sphere of religious reform was offset by the fact that his political influence had been weakened by the emergence of a " privy council ", a body of nobles and office-holders which had first come together to suppress the Pilgrimage of Grace.

Henry came to regret Cromwell's execution, and later accused his ministers of bringing about Cromwell's downfall by false charges.

After an hour in which the Parliamentarians initially retreated under the unexpected attack, when reinforced by Cromwell's three brigades, they in turn forced the Royalists to retreat back toward the city.

In 1935, Dulles closed Sullivan & Cromwell's Berlin office ; later he would cite the closing date as 1934, no doubt in an effort to clear his reputation by shortening his involvement with Nazi Germany.

Politics then take centre stage as Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, plans Cromwell's downfall by playing on Henry's infatuation with his young niece, Catherine Howard.

In the English Civil War it became a royalist stronghold and was razed to the ground by Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary forces giving it its modern name.

The stories of monastic impropriety, vice and excess that were to be collected by Thomas Cromwell's visitors may have been biased and exaggerated, although also chronicled by Sir Thomas More.

The invasion of the forces of Oliver Cromwell in the 1650s included a twelve month siege of the city by Cromwell's New Model Army led by Henry Ireton.

In the 17th century a soldier loyal to Oliver Cromwell ( described in a letter to Sheriff Tofts of Norwich as a ' godly trooper ') scraped away the faces of the apostles, such images being regarded as idolatrous by many of Cromwell's followers.

Thousands of Catholic residents were massacred by Oliver Cromwell's Protestant troops at Drogheda, Wexford, and Waterford, during the Irish campaign of autumn and winter 1649.