ELY- ASSOCIATION AGAINST the MISREPRESENTATION of OLIVER CROMWELL

Welcome,

We are of the opinion that Oliver Cromwell has suffered a great injustice over the last 400 plus years for a simple man that played a huge part in the triumph of Democracy over Devine Rule. Without Cromwell who is to say that democracy wouldn't still be a powerless advisary committee to the all powerful inherently mad King or Queen and their reckless impulses..!!!

DIARY 2004:

25th Febuary - Interview with BBC TV - screened Sunday the 21st March 2004
21st March - Screening of Interview above.
25th April - Oliver's Birthday Party ELY. Held @ The FENMAN -Sunday Lunch / Evening.

JOIN THE ASSOCIATION AGAINST the MISREPRESENTATION of OLIVER CROMWELL

This is the Canon that Oliver Cromwell fired at the Cathedral and destroyed the West Wing...
Inside the Cathedral Cromwell decapitated and desecrated the holy statues...
Cromwell slaughtered innocent Irish men, women & children for no good reason...
abolished Christmas...
and imposed a complete ban on "fun"...

POPPYCOCK..!

All these stories are inaccurate exaggerations and falsities put about by Centuries of successive Royalist Regimes and spread by a people that are still suffering from "guilt" for the "cold blooded murder" of the King, Charles the 1st.

We are the Ely Association against the misrepresentation of Oliver Cromwell -
Hussar..!

Contrary to popular belief, Cromwell was a good Husband AND Father...
An enthusiastic Member of Parliament...
a Military Genius...
and Uncrowned King of Great Britain and the Commonwealth...

The story of the man who rose from Commoner to King is surprisingly mundane, but the true Legacy of Oliver Cromwell is Democracy itself.

You see, up until that period of time, the King, or Queen was all powerful and their word alone was the ultimate Law.
They would make sometimes impulsive decisions that would affect the whole country.
The Church reinforced the link from God to the Monarch and thus preserved the Divine Right of the King to Absolute Rule.
However, for many years the Lords and Landowners wanted a voice in the running of the Country by means of an elected body of "Commoners", a democratic system whereby the people of England would have some sort of say.
Democracy itself was not a new idea. The Greeks had a democracy before time existed.
Democracy and a Parliament in England also had been around since Simon DeMontfort called the first Parliament in 1265 although it never had any power as such and it's only function was to advise and support the Crown.
In the early 1600's the issue of the time was effective power-sharing between the People, and the Monarchy, an ideal that eventually lead to the English Civil War and the Murder of King Charles 1st.

Without Cromwell's idealism, courage and determination, democracy may never have triumphed over divine rule.

So, whatever your feelings about Oliver Cromwell...
even though they may be based on hearsay and ignorance...
the one thing that cannot be denied is that he settled the argument once and for all...
and because of the actions taken ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY, Parliament was now a true force in great Britain's Affairs and the workings of "civilisations" around the world would never be the same again - thanks to the one and only, Oliver Cromwell

Hussar..!