| Oliver Cromwell | |
| (From the portrait by Robert Walker at Hinchingbrooke.) |
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| Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford | 8 |
| (From the miniature at Devonshire House.) |
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| Oliver Cromwell | 12 |
| (From a miniature by Cooper.) |
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| Sir John Eliot | 16 |
| (From the portrait by Van Somer at Port Eliot.) |
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| All Saints’ Church, Huntingdon | 24 |
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| Cromwell’s House at Ely | 28 |
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| Archbishop Laud | 34 |
| (From the portrait at Lambeth Palace, painted by Vandyke.) |
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| West Tower, Ely Cathedral, from Monastery Close | 40 |
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| John Pym | 52 |
| (From the portrait by Cornelius Janssen.) |
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| Prince Rupert | 68 |
| (From the portrait by Vandyke at Hinchingbrooke.) |
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| Fac-simile of Letter from Oliver Cromwell to Mr. Storie, written January 11, 1635, said to be the earliest extant letter in Cromwell’s Handwriting | 74 |
| (From the original in the British Museum.) |
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| John Hampden | 80 |
| (From the portrait by Robert Walker at Port Eliot.) |
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| Cromwell’s Engagement with the Marquis of Newcastle’s Regiment of “Whitecoats” in the Battle of Marston Moor | 88 |
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| The City Walls of York, with the Cathedral in the Distance | 96 |
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| King Charles I. | 108 |
| (From the replica at the Dresden Gallery, by Sir Peter Lely.) |
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| General Sir Thomas Fairfax | 116 |
| (From the portrait by Robert Walker at Althorp.) |
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| John Milton | 120 |
| (From the drawing in crayon by Faithorne at Bayfordbury.) |
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| The Death Warrant of King Charles I.—Signed by Oliver Cromwell and other members of the court | 128 |
| (From the original in the library in the House of Lords.) |
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| Pride’s Purge | 136 |
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| Interior of Westminster Hall. Where Parliament sat and where King Charles I. was tried and sentenced | 140 |
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| Magdalen Tower, Drogheda | 154 |
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| St. Lawrence’s Gate, Drogheda | 158 |
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| Cromwell Leading the Assault on Drogheda | 164 |
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| The Battle-field of Dunbar | 172 |
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| Seal of the Protectorate | 178 |
| (From an impression in wax in the British Museum.) |
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| Admiral Robert Blake | 184 |
| (From the portrait at Wadham College, Oxford.) |
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| Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament | 186 |
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| Oliver Cromwell | 190 |
| (From the painting at Althorp by Robert Walker.) |
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| The Clock Tower, Hampton Court | 200 |
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| The Great Hall, Hampton Court—In this room the state dinners were given under the Protectorate | 206 |
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| The Second Installation of Cromwell as Protector, in Westminster Hall, June 26, 1657 | 210 |
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| Sir William Waller | 216 |
| (From the portrait by Sir Peter Lely at Goodwood.) |
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| Henry Cromwell—Son of the Protector, and Governor of Ireland | 220 |
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| The Last Charge of the Ironsides | 226 |
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| Richard Cromwell | 232 |
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| Exterior of Westminster Hall | 236 |
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| Oliver Cromwell | 240 |
| (From the bust by Bernini.) |
