ABSTRACT
Cromwell was born in Huntingdon in 1599 to a family that had been enriched by Roman Catholic church lands expropriated by Henry VIII during the English Reformation. In 1640 Cromwell led attacks on the king's religious policies in what is known as the Long Parliament. He also supported the 1641 Triennial Act that would have required the king to summon Parliament every three years. Power, however, remained in the hands of Cromwell, who was named Lord Protector. He promoted Puritanism and suppressed rebellions in Scodand and Ireland. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 also established Cromwell's model for relations between the church and the state. In the wake of the sixteenth-century Reformation, England had been divided by three main religious parties. The effects of Cromwell's military campaigns were felt long after the seventeenth century.
