Puritan Commonwealth Empire

Hi I need help in creating a Puritan Commonwealth Empire that Cromwell's family rule over, this will include America colonies based in Plymouth as there Cap city.


What about France would they cause the French people to get rid of there Royals?,

LW
 
probably not: there was far less discontent in France against the Establishment, as evidenced by the abject failure of the Fronde. Added to that, France was allied to Cromwell from 1657 onwards, so he'd have no incentive to promote a French Civil War.
 
The Fronde was no more of a revolutionary movement than the Lancastrians were in the wars of the roses; it was fundamentally noble versus noble, with an attempt to tap into popular discontent along the way that nearly got out of hand- and not long after the Thirty Years' War at that.

The Protectorate collapsed because it was always and only an expedient, that the people involved in running it- Cromwell above all- knew was only temporary; the puritan revolution had more or less completely failed to establish a new order on a sound footing. Inheriting, at all, was the best of a bad job, and Richard Cromwell not the man to hold it together.

Christopher Hill is a good historian to chase up about the period; look out for anything on the social background, but above all look for anything on the Putney Debates, the closest thing the new order had to a constitutional convention.

Basically though, if you need Cromwell's sons involved, the revolution's failed and political Puritanism is dead already.
 
Well this setting also has Royal powers at the other side turning to complete monarch rule as reaction to the powers of the Puritan Commonwealth,


What about the Dutch Republic?,


LW
 
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