1. Oliver Cromwell By
Monty Python

2. The most important thing about King Charles I is that he was 5’6” tall at the start of his reign

3. but only 4’8” tall at the end of it… because of…..

4. Parliament! Cromwell ! Lord Protector of England !
Puritan!

5. Born 1599 and died in 1658, September!

6. Was at first ONLY !! MP for Huntingdon BUT Then ……

7. He led the Ironside Cavalry at Marston Moor

8. In 1644 and won

9. And then he founded the New Model Army

10. And praise be, beat the cavaliers at Naseby

11. And the king fled up north like a bat…………. to the Scots !!

12. But under the the terms of John Pymm’s Solemn League and Covenant, the Scots handed the king Charles I over to…

13. Parliament ! Cromwell ! Lord Protector of England !! AND HIS WARTS!

14. BORN IN 1599 AND DIES IN 1658 SEPTEMBER
But alas !!!

15. OY VAY!

16. Disagreement then broke out Between the Presbyterian Parliament and the military

17. who meant to have a independent bent…. And so !!

18. The 2nd civil war broke out and the Roundhead ranks

19. Faced the cavaliers at Preston Banks

20. And the King lost again! Silly thing ! STUPID GITG !
Cromwell’s Ironside regiment

21. And Cromwell sent Colonel Pride to purge the House of Commons of the Presbyterian Royalists leaving behind only the Rump Parliament

22. Which appointed a high Court at Westminster Hall

23. To indict Charles I for ….
TYRANNY !!

24. OOOOHHH !!!
LAST PORTRAIT OF CHARLES I ….. AT HIS TRIAL

25. Charles was sentenced to death

26. Even though he refused to accept that the court had ….JURISDICTION !

27. Charles I led to his execution
SAY GOOD BYE TO HIS HEAD !!
Charles I led to his execution

28. POOR KING CHARLES LAID HIS HEAD ON THE BLOCK JANUARY 1649

29. DOWN CAME THE AXE, AND

31. Charles I ‘s funeral
In the silence that followed, the only sound that could be heard was a solitary giggle from….

32. Oliver Cromwell !! Lord Protector of England !!

33. OLE !

34. Born in 1599 and died in 1658
Oliver Cromwell’s
death mask

35. Then he smashed Ireland! Massacrce at Drogheda
After the massacre, Cromwell sought to explain his actions in a letter to William Lenthall, speaker of the English Parliament:
"...I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbued their hands in so much innocent blood, and it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future, which are satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remourse and regret...."

36. Set up the Commonwealth and more!

37. He crushed the Scots at Worcester

38. And beat the Dutch at sea in 1653

39. and then he dissolved the Rump Parliament

40. And with Lambert’s consent, wrote the Instrument of Government
Major John Lambert Commonwealth Seal

41. Under which Oliver was Protector … AT LAST !!!

42. THE END !!
CROMWELL’S HEAD

47. Monty Python

49. Then he smashed Ireland !!
The New Model Army

50. Then he smashed Ireland !