But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

And it was clear that Adrien was not mistaken, for both Small and Cromwell took no step toward aiding in the sending up of the new topgallant mast till Philip Spencer had given the signal to obey.

The calmness and detachment of his tone suggested unawareness of how implicit was his own guilt in the words he had used to defend Cromwell.

( By 1653 Cromwell and the Army had largely eliminated these threats ).

The Rump had not agreed to its own dissolution when it was dispersed by Cromwell and legislation from the period immediately before the Civil War — the Act against dissolving the Long Parliament without its own consent ( 11 May 1641 ) -- gave them the legal basis for this view.

Nobody had the constitutional authority to call an election, but Cromwell did not want to impose a military dictatorship.

Even on the eve of the Dissolution, Prioress Jane Vane wrote to Cromwell on behalf of a postulant, saying that though she had not actually been professed, she was professed in her heart and in the eyes of God.

The name Erasmus had been used by a number of his family and derives from his ancestor Erasmus Earle, Common Sergent of England under Oliver Cromwell.

Leading Fifth Monarchists also had an influence on Oliver Cromwell, as it was Thomas Harrison's idea to introduce the Nominated Assembly ( Barebones Parliament ) as a body of religious men.

This influence on Cromwell did not last however, as just six months after he had created the Nominated Assembly, Cromwell dissolved it in favour of Lambert's more conservative Instrument of Government.

Major-General Thomas Harrison, who had commanded the troop which aided Oliver Cromwell in dissolving the Rump, suggested that there be a ruling body based upon the Old Testament Sanhedrin of 70 selected " Saints ", which was based on his beliefs, as a Fifth Monarchist, that the rule of the Saints would usher in the reign of Christ on Earth.

* 1656-In a letter to Councillor General Montagu ( afterwards Earl of Sandwich ), General-at-sea and one of the Protector's personal friends, Cromwell mentioned the necessity of securing a permanent base at the entry of the Mediterranean, preferably Gibraltar ( the first suggestion for the occupation of Gibraltar as a naval base had been made at an English Council of War held at sea on 20 October 1625 ).

After affirming that he had no intention of taking up arms Fox was able to speak with Cromwell for most of the morning about the Friends and advised him to listen to God's voice and obey it so that, as Fox left, Cromwell " with tears in his eyes said, ' Come again to my house ; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other '; adding that he wished no more ill than he did to his own soul.

The seven hundred Quakers who had been imprisoned under Richard Cromwell were released, though the government remained uncertain about the group's links with other, more violent, movements.

Patrick Henry refers to Tarquin in his famous speech ending, " Tarquin and Caesar each had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third ... may profit by their example.

Cromwell " well knew that while the Long Parliament, that noble company, who had fought the great battle of liberty from the beginning, remained in session, and such men as Vane were enabled to mingle in its deliberations, it would be utterly useless for him to think of executing his purposes ( to set up a Protectorate or Dictatorship ).

Word was carried to Cromwell, that the House were on the point of putting the final motion ; and Colonel Ingoldby hastened to Whitehall to tell him, that, if he intended to do anything decisive, he had no time to lose.

After Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father Oliver as Lord Protector in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers ' coup in April, 1659, the officers re-summoned the Rump Parliament to sit.

The Long Parliament which Oliver Cromwell had dispersed in 1653 was once more summoned to assemble, by a declaration from the council of officers dated on 6 May 1659.

Orlando Bridgman, who upon his submission to Cromwell had been permitted to practice the law in a private manner, and under that colour had served both as spy and agent for his master, was entrusted with the principal management of this tragic scene ; and in his charge to the Grand Jury, had the assurance to tell them ' That no authority, no single person, or community of men ; not the people collectively or representatively, had any coercive power over the King of England.

The Crown became richer to the extent of around £ 150, 000 (£ as of ), per year, although around £ 50, 000 (£ as of ) of this was committed to fund monastic pensions ; and Cromwell had intended that the bulk of this wealth should serve as regular income of government.

When Cromwell was convinced that Lilburne really intended to live peaceably, he released him on parole from prison, and seems to have continued till his death the pension of 40s.

On 14 July, Cromwell appointed Cooper to the English Council of State, where he was a member of the Committee for the Business of the Law, which was intended to continue the reform work of the Hale Commission.

First Sindercombe rented a house in King Street in Westminster where they intended to shoot Cromwell when he rode past in his coach.

He intended to shoot Cromwell with an arquebus on his way from Westminster Abbey to Parliament on 17 September 1656.

Sindercombe's group then intended to shoot Cromwell when he left for Hampton Court, as he customarily did every Friday.

An industrial looking diesel locomotive which has run at Markeaton before, " Cromwell " was intended to join the railway during the winter of 2009 awas due to join the railway in 2010, but this did not take place.

Fairfax's army was intended by its founders to be a specifically English army, and Cromwell for one, would have employed it against the Scots, almost as readily as against malignants.

It was intended that his infantry would storm this breach and then open the nearby North town gate to allow access to Cromwell and the Parliamentarian cavalry.

It is possible that Cromwell at first saw the Fife operation as no more than a diversion, intended to unlock the Scots ' position at Stirling.

To their enormous embarrassment however on 7 March a large English delegation of 246 arrived at The Hague, headed by Oliver St John, to negotiate the conditions under which the Dutch Republic might unite itself with England, sent by Cromwell who had taken the earlier suggestions quite too seriously.

The Dutch however were too stunned and confused for a coherent reaction, so after a month the English delegation disclosed a plan by Cromwell to divide the world into two spheres of influence: the Dutch could control Africa and Asia ; in return they would assist the English in conquering both Americas from the Spanish.

Cromwell believed that this position was too strong, and that the Royalists would refuse battle rather than attack it.

" I know not ," he was heard to say, " why I should not vye with Cromwell, since I had once as great a power as he had, and greater too, and am as good a gentleman ".

The stadtholder had suddenly died however and the States were now embarrassed by Cromwell taking the idea quite too seriously.

Oliver Cromwell, who arrived too late in the day to take part in the battle, later wrote disparagingly to John Hampden, " Your troopers are most of them old decayed servingmen and tapsters ; and their Royalists troopers are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality ...." Not only were the Parliamentarian cavalry not so naturally accustomed to mounted action, but they were drilled in the Dutch tactic of firing pistols and carbines from the saddle, whereas under Rupert, the Royalist cavalry would charge sword in hand, relying on shock and weight.

In the film, he and Cromwell are also among the five members whom Charles I attempts to arrest on the eve of the war ( when in fact they were not ) and, after the King is executed, is upbraided by Cromwell as being too ambitious.

Determined on Cromwell's destruction, he refused to listen to the prudent counsels of Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, who urged that Cromwell was too strong to be resisted or provoked, and on 29 March 1647 drew up in parliament a hasty proclamation declaring the promoters of the army petition enemies to the state ; in April challenging Ireton to a duel.

After the Restoration of 1660 his body was ordered dug up and suspended on the gallows at Tyburn along with those of Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw, though it is said that the sentence was not carried out ( probably because his corpse was too decayed ).

It was too rich a prize for Thomas Cromwell to pass up on behalf of King Henry VIII.

One of the rectors of St. Clement's, Dr. Benjamin Stone, who had been presented to the living by Bishop Juxon, being deemed " too Popish " by Oliver Cromwell, was imprisoned for some time at Crosby Hall.

Although it was originally planned that the college was to be named Oliver Cromwell College, this proved too controversial and it was instead named after Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who was Prime Minister at the time of the University's foundation.

During England ’ s years under Cromwell, the law imposed a strict moral code on the people ( such as abolishing Christmas as too indulgent of the sensual pleasures ).

Initially, Vickers had been working on a " High Velocity " gun to be fitted to the Cromwell, but it was realised that the Cromwell's turret ring was too small to mount it.

Established in the ancient half-timbered building close to the great Parish Church of St. Oswald in 1407, the School would later attract the attention of Oliver Cromwell and Queen Elizabeth I ; the former dismissed the current headmaster for being a " delinquent " ( too " Royalist ") whilst the latter gave to the School an endowment of " forty shillings per annum " to help with its running.

The Cromwell itself had too small a turret ring and it was the following tank design in the British cruiser line the Comet tank with a shortened 17 pdr that entered service late in the war.

He turns on these too, as Henry turned on Wolsey, Fisher, More and Cromwell.

This is what Cromwell said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer fit to conduct the affairs of the nation: " You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing.

During the Interregnum although some officers said that he was too sympathetic to the Levellers and the Anabaptists, he supported Oliver Cromwell during first years of the Protectorate.

According to his wife Lucy Hutchinson, Cromwell attempted to persuade her husband to accept office, " and, finding him too constant to be wrought upon to serve his tyranny ", would have arrested him had not death prevented the fulfilment of his purpose.