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• Rump faced issues from the army, Levellers and religious sectaries 
• 1649-53 the Rump wielded supreme authority. 
• Feb 1st 1649 - former sympathisers of Charles (80 members) were allowed back into parliament 
• May 1649 - England governed as a commonwealth 
• Council of state replaced privy council
• Burford - Fairfax and Cromwell defeated protesting Levellers
• Irish civil war 1641- 1650 - Cromwell invaded (30,000 men) 1649 
• Drogheda - Cromwell refused quarter
• War with Dutch 1652-4 - Two navigation acts taking away trade with Dutch 
• Rump: eased laws on debt and larger parishes divided 
• 3 Sep 1651 -  Battle of Worcester - ending war with scots
• Blasphemy Act 1650 - limited religious non-conformity
• 20 April 1653 - Cromwell dissolved rump (under pressure from soldiers)
• Barebones Parliament - opened by Cromwell 4 July 1653 - substitute for an elected parliament 
• Autumn 1653 - fewer members attended the House 
• Three parts of the constitution - a Protector, a council of State and an occasional single-chamber parliament 
• instrument of government - 30,000 army, a fleet and £200,000 per year for civil government                                                - guidlines established for worship + provision made for preaching
• March 1654 - 'Triers' would approve candidates for living 
• First Protectorate Parliament met in Sep 1653 - Cromwell dissolved it Jan 1655
• Major Generals - deal with troublemakers and royal activists. Popular? support of puritans + some local notables. Unpopular? closed ale-house + banned horse racing, seen as social inferiors by gentry
• Sep 1656 - Second protectorate parliament - Cromwell needed money for war against Spain 
• Elections ^ indication of unpopularity of MGs
• Quaker, James Nayler, punished for imitating Jesus
• Humble Petition of advice - requesting Cromwell to be King, ending arbitrary exclusions
• ^ Refused by Cromwell