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Plan your escape from London at Jersey.com, Jersey, where Sea Meets Soul. And the key. Hello everyone and welcome back to the history of England episode 414 the

ground of liberty last time we heard the story of Cromwell in Ireland.

We heard how the ground had been prepared for him at Rathmeans by Michael Jones.

We heard about the slaughter at Drohada and Wexford, the more traditional military progression through towns held by a fractured and

fractious Confederate Association that struggled to resist effectively.

By April 1650, after nine months of campaigning

Crommore had captured all of Lensster and many of the towns of Munster had come over to the English

often through the work of his colleague and friend Lord Brogill.

Resistance did remain in Waterford, Limerick and Galway,

but their writing on the wall was so clear now

that not even Nebbukuchadne could miss it.

Parliament had now called their general home to a new crisis, a new threat from Scotland.

So it would be up to Henry I intend to carry on his

bosses work in Ireland. Cromwell returned to rapturous applause in May 1650 and

everyone was really really pleased with him for scotching the body politic a fear of

invasion from the west and avenging the atrocities of 1641. Never mind that new atrocities had been committed in their name. Andrew Marvel, the

now famous metaphysical poet, was living at Nun Appleton with Thomas Fairfax as tutor to his daughter while Thomas did the gardening.

He wrote an Horation Ode, whatever that is, tinged with regret for the past death of King Charles I, but with only praise for the new

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