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    Thomas Lord Cromwell is an Elizabethan history play, depicting the life of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, the minister of King Henry VIII of England...
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    Thomas Cromwell (/ˈkrɒmwəl, -wɛl/; c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to...
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    most famous members are: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex; and, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector. The line of Oliver Cromwell descends from Richard...
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    establishment of The Protectorate, he ruled as Lord Protector from December 1653 until his death in September 1658. Cromwell remains a controversial figure due to...
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    Parliamentary regiments with a unified army. Sir Thomas Fairfax was selected as the new Lord General, with Cromwell as his Lieutenant-General and cavalry commander...
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  • Thomas Cromwell (jurist) (born 1952), Canadian jurist and Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada Thomas Lord Cromwell, Elizabethan play Thomas...
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    Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 – 12 July 1712) was an English statesman, the second and final Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland...
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    Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, KB (c. 1520 – 4 July 1551) was an English nobleman. He was the only son of the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell, 1st...
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    Elizabeth Cromwell (née Bourchier; 1598 –1665) was the wife of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and...
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  • and the Light (2020), have shown Cromwell in a more sympathetic light. Cromwell is the subject of Thomas Lord Cromwell, an Elizabethan-era history play...
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    VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, 1st earl of Essex, nephew of the Protector Somerset and first cousin of Edward VI. Henry Cromwell was the eldest son...
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    Frances Cromwell, Lady Russell (c. 6 December 1638 – 27 January 1720) was the ninth child and youngest daughter of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the...
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    grandfather, Gregory, son of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII, was created Baron Cromwell on 18 December 1540. Cromwell spent some time at Jesus...
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  • in 1375 when Ralph de Cromwell was summoned by writ to Parliament as Lord Cromwell. His grandson, the third baron, served as Lord High Treasurer to King...
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  • sing Placebo, Dirige, and other songs. In the correspondence of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, a commemoration in 1536 is mentioned at which a hundred priests...
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    Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Ardglass, 11 June 1594 to 20 November 1653, was an English nobleman, son of Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell and his second...
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    Jersey, who died in 1534. She then married Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, the son of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII in 1537; Gregory...
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  • War and, as Lord Protector, ruled Great Britain and Ireland in the 1650s. It features an ensemble cast, led by Richard Harris as Cromwell and Alec Guinness...
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    Tyre; Locrine; The London Prodigal; The Puritan; Sir John Oldcastle; Thomas Lord Cromwell; and A Yorkshire Tragedy. (See: Shakespeare Apocrypha.) All seven...
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  • for Fair Women was certainly performed, as was the Tudor history Thomas Lord Cromwell, sometimes seen as a salvo in a theatrical feud with the Admiral's...
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    close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe...
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    Michael Boyle, DD, Archbishop of Armagh and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, without issue. Thomas Cromwell died on 11 April 1682 and was buried at Ilam,...
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    limited way after the Commonwealth of England ended with the death of Oliver Cromwell. In August 2023, restrictions were placed on the teaching of Shakespearean...
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    Tragedy Sejanus His Fall Sir John Oldcastle Sir Thomas More ✻ The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Lord Cromwell Thomas of Woodstock Ur-Hamlet † Vortigern and Rowena...
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  • nephew of Thomas Cromwell Other persons and items named Oliver Cromwell, see Oliver Cromwell (disambiguation) Richard Cromwell (1626–1712), Lord Protector...
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    governed by a Lord Protector. It began when Barebone's Parliament was dissolved, and the Instrument of Government appointed Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector...
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    Richard Cromwell, was a Welsh soldier and courtier in the reign of Henry VIII who knighted him on 2 May 1540. He was a maternal nephew of Thomas Cromwell, profiting...
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    (non-Shakespearean) Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe...
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    Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical plays focus on only a small part...
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    King's Men. The following year he printed the second quarto of Thomas Lord Cromwell. "Thomas Snodham, and the printing of William Byrd's Psalmes, Songs,...
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