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Updated: May 9, 2025
Although expressly ordered, she did not proclaim Richard as lord-protector; nor did she take any step to recognise the authority of Parliament.
By it the legislative power was invested in a lord-protector and parliament, but with a provision that every act passed by the parliament should become law at the expiration of twenty days, even without the consent of the protector; unless he could persuade the house of the reasonableness of his objections.
Ibid. 859. The Levellers and royalists maintained that he was strangled by order of Cromwell. Cromwell, and another to the army, both conceived in a strain of the most poignant and sarcastic irony, it proceeds to discuss the three questions: Whether the lord-protector be a tyrant?
But the days are gone by wherein my lord-protector of the commonwealth of England was wont to go a lovemaking to Mrs. Fleetwood, with the Bible under his arm. "And so Miss Jacky Gordon is really clothed with a husband at last, and Miss Laura Manners left without a mate! She and Lord Stair should marry and have children in mere revenge.
The same day the establishment of the government by a lord-protector and triennial parliaments, and the acceptance of the protectorship by the lord-general, were announced to the public by proclamation, with all the ceremonies hitherto used on the accession of a new monarch.
Hamilton Burton showed just a glow of brick red on his cheekbones that argued an early break in his over-strained temper. "If I am a tyrant at least I do not call myself a lord-protector. Will you sell at your own price and go with me to the top or refuse and take your chances on substituting the state-prison for the bench?" An abrupt change came over Mr. Hendricks. He smiled through his pallor.
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