Redamittance in second
Parlaiments 2nd session
caused division
Elections didn't return
a house submissive to
Cromwell and the
Army
Challenged
Protector's right to
issue ordinances,
sough to restrict his
power
Lawyers overturned law
reforms
Supicious of Army
Army
Major Generals
Resentment from
gentry due to local
power being taken
away by soldiers.
In charge of enforcing
poor law, decimiation
tax, controlling public
morality
Cromwell
Richard's incompetence
Death in September 1658
Dismissed Parliament on many
occasions, failing to come to
agreements
Implemented Oath of Recognition
Opposition
Royalists - saw the
Protectorate as illegal
Radicals
Political - wanted
more fundamental
constitutional reforms
Religous - saw Cromwell
as the man who had
destroyed their chance of
creating the new Jerusalem
Republicans/Commonwealth's-men -
opposed to any form of government
with a 'single-person' element.
Opposed to Cromwell due to military
coup dissolving the Rump
80 MPs refused to take the Oath of
Recognition and were excluded