On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:29:52 +0100, Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> wrote: >On 22 Jul at 21:06, William <cyber_shark5000@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> On Monday, June 4, 2012 10:25:04 AM UTC-5, roy.st...@btinternet.com >> wrote: > ><snip for brevity> > >> > I wonder whether we have any Cromwell descendants on this list??? >> > Personally, I wish I were one but no such luck! >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Roy Stockdill > >> I'm a descendant of his line. Not sure if I'm direct, I think I came >> from one of his siblings, I need to check again (my family has the >> documentation.) I don't know why you would want to be his descendant, >> it's cool, but it doesn't really benefit me at all. ;) > >I share your relationship to Cromwell's line but, like Roy, I would like >to be his descendant. Cromwell brought order out of chaos. > So did an assortment of other well-known undesirables. >While he >was a butcher in Ireland, in other respects he was moderate and >tolerant. He did not have time for the many fanatics that were around >and struggled with the problem of how to install a non-monarchical >government that could survive. He may have failed in his lifetime but >his legacy lives on in the dictum that 'Parliament is Sovereign' and >decides both laws and monarchs. > Something disproved on various occasions in court. >Read his writings and the biographies of him and perhaps you will >understand why he is held in such respect. > >"Paint me as I am, warts and all" - O. Cromwell.