The Court of Oliver Cromwell

The Cromwellian Protectorate was in effect a monarchical regime and many of the trappings associated with the generally accepted concept of a monarchy, that of a crowned head, were attached to the office of lord protector, and hence to the person of Oliver Cromwell. The most obvious way this became manifest was in the establishment of a protectoral court: meaning those who were involved in the protector’s domestic or household arrangements. Until this book, originally published in 1977, no attempt had been made to determine either the essential form and structure of the protectoral court, nor the extent to which it resembled the royal courts which preceded it. This study filled a gap in the knowledge of the period of the English Revolution by collating scarce and scattered material.