“Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace” Oliver Cromwell speech dismissing the rump Parliament.

Dec 12, 2016 · Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!

Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go! Do You Want Total War? Full text transcript of Oliver Cromwell's speech dissolving the Rump …

Full text of Oliver Cromwell speech dissolving the Long Parliament in 1653. Part of a UK politics & history speeches database for students essays and exams.

The “shining bauble” mentioned by Cromwell was the ceremonial mace, which sits on the House of Commons table when the house is in session and is widely recognised as a symbol of …

Jan 21, 2025 · Oliver Cromwell MP's speech on the dissolution of the Rump of the Long Parliament, given to the House of Commons, 20 April 1653.

Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!

If parliament was the nation’s ‘idol’, then Cromwell, the man who could describe the solemn instrument of parliamentary proceedings, the mace, as a ‘bauble’, was the iconoclast. This …

"Take away that bauble!"—Oliver Cromwell Collection: Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Description: President Roosevelt holds his big stick in one hand and gestures at the …

But the expulsion of the Rump Parliament by Oliver Cromwell three hundred years ago, in April 1653, fulfils every demand of the picturesque. It was unexpected, it was dramatic and it was …