The Rule of the Major-Generals, was a period of direct military government from August 1655 to January 1657, during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate. England...

into military districts ruled by Army Major-Generals, who answered only to him. The fifteen major generals and deputy major generals, called "godly governors"...

the Major-Generals to collect taxes to support their own regimes ended, and the Rule of the Major Generals came to an end. The second piece of major legislation...

administrator for Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire during the 1655 to 1657 Rule of the Major Generals. Enlisted in the Eastern Association army, Packer was a trusted...

"Around the rule of the Major-Generals there has grown a legend of military oppression which obscures the limits both of their impact and of their unpopularity"...

Protectorate Parliament, ushering in a period of military Rule of the Major-Generals. The Instrument of Government was replaced in May 1657 by England's...

political positions under the Commonwealth, including administrator of Berkshire, Sussex and Hampshire during the Rule of the Major-Generals from 1655 to 1657...

the Rule of the Major-Generals. Worsley was the son of Ralph Worsley, of The Platt, Rusholme and his wife Isabel Massy, daughter of Edward Massy of Manchester...

were not guilty of treason, since it only applied to acts against the king. Shortly after Cromwell instituted the Rule of the Major-Generals, which dramatically...

regular services; however, the Congress quickly passed legislation allowing for the appointment of major generals as well as generals, thus providing clear...

Boteler (fl. 1640s and 1650s), Roundhead and one of the major-generals during the Rule of the Major Generals William Boteler (disambiguation) Baron Boteler...

Egbert of Wessex in 829 and completed by King Edred in 954. During The Protectorate, Oliver Cromwell experimented with the Rule of the Major-Generals. There...

and friend as "one of Cromwell's favourites", during the 1655 to 1657 Rule of the Major-Generals, he was administrator for Herefordshire, Worcestershire...

of State under the Commonwealth, although he opposed Oliver Cromwell's attempt to rule without Parliament during the 1655 to 1657 Rule of the Major-Generals...

appointed the Major-General for Surrey and Kent during the Rule of the Major-Generals. Thomas Kelsey was returned for Dover during the Second Protectorate...

The Major League Baseball draft (officially the Rule 4 draft; also known as the First Year Player Draft) is the primary mechanism of Major League Baseball...

Council which drew up instructions to the administrative major-generals. He was the organiser of the system of police which these officers were to control...

in 1653 is the closest to a coup d'état that England has had, and the subsequent Rule of the Major-Generals. The other was the Battle of the Dunes (1658)...

The Rule 5 draft is a Major League Baseball (MLB) player draft that occurs each year in December, at the annual Winter Meeting of general managers. The...

during the Rule of the Major-Generals. He was born in Barnwell, Northamptonshire, the son of Noel or Neville Boteler; Ivan Roots considers that the clergyman...

Cromwell's Protectorate in the 1650s, the rule of the Major-Generals created 10 regions in England and Wales of similar size to the modern regions. Proposals...

held high military and civil offices. During the Rule of the Major-Generals he was appointed to command the London military district (with John Barkstead...

Rule 63 is an Internet meme that states that, as a rule, "for every given male character, there is a female version of that character" and vice versa....

rule of the Major-Generals in the counties to end. With the rejection of the Decimation Tax, it was clear that government through the Major-Generals could...

The Game of the Generals, also called GG or GOG or simply The Generals, is an educational war game invented in the Philippines by Sofronio H. Pasola Jr...

The rule of law is a political ideal that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including...

in the 1660s, he was a member of the Parliament and one of the major-generals during the Rule of the Major-Generals Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia...

The timeline of major famines in India during British rule covers major famines on the Indian subcontinent from 1765 to 1947. The famines included here...

restoration of the monarchy under the Stuarts. There was widespread revulsion against the intense moralism and high taxes of the Rule of the Major Generals in...

of 1656 Rule of the Major-Generals. During the Second Commonwealth, in the immediate prelude to the restoration of the monarchy, he served as a major...