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Letter To 'King Charles I' By Oliver Cromwell

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People of England.It is I, Oliver Cromwell.You all may know me from the Parliament.I know how all of you feel right now because of the king and him constantly fighting with us to raise taxes.I was born in a very poor family myself.I hated it whenever the king raised taxes.Now I will fight for you.I will fight for your liberty.I will make sure that we are heard. Now we have king Charles I who does not care about us at all and who only wants us for money.He fails to recognize the power of us (Parliament)He keeps getting rid of us and now we will get rid of him from the throne.We will make sure that he does not control us.We have rights.We have freedom and no one...no one I say can take those away from us.We will form an army and forever in history will we be known as the Puritans. Everyone around here might be saying “Why should we trust you?”I can assure you that you can trust me since I am a member of the parliament I know King Charles I.I know his weaknesses and I know his strengths and I also know his tactics that he will use against us. …show more content…

I am not one of those people who would say that All of you are going to make it or that everything will be alright.No, Many of you may die no doubt but what better way to die than in war when you are doing something right for your country?.I will not guarantee that everyone will be treated as equals after this.Or that we will all be safe but I do assure you that I will try my best to do all the things I say.I promise that things will be different.But god knows if it for better or for worse.There will be a lot of changes in England like more security, Being more religious.Most important we will not offend god ever.There will be a lot of other new changes as well which will be in favor of our

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