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Description of  Major-General Hezekiah Haynes and the Failure of Oliver Cromwell s Godly Revolution, 1594 1704 (Routledge Research in Early Modern History)

0367903105 rar Hezekiah Haynes was shaped by the Puritanism of his fathers network and experienced emigration to New England as part of a community removing themselves from Charles Is Laudianism. Returning to fight in the British Civil Wars, Haynes rose to become Cromwells ruler of the east of England, tasked with bringing about a godly revolution, and in rising to prominence he became the centre of his own developing political and religious network, which included a kin link to Cromwell himself. As one of Cromwells Major-Generals Haynes was tasked with security and a reformation of manners, but he was hampered by the limits of the early modern state and Cromwells own contradictory political and religious ideas. The Restoration saw Haynes imprisoned in the Tower before emerging to return to the community in which he had been raised, and continuing the links with some of those he had worked with for Cromwell and the kin he had left behind in New England in dealing with the norms of early modern life. Read more