Oliver Cromwell

At this date, when religious rebirth was a political statement, AT 's conversion and her visions signified an interest in politics and a drive to concern herself, even obliquely, in shaping national events. After fasting...

Before the printing of AT 's vain prophecies (as he saw them), Marchamont Needham wrote to Cromwell , saying they were desperate against your person, family, children, friends and the government, and mentioning...

The title-page leaves no doubt of the political implications of her message. It reads Strange and Wonderful Newes from White-Hall; or, The Mighty Visions Proceeding from Mistris Anna Trapnel, to divers Collonels, Ladies, and Gentlewomen...

She recommends the study of history, and her moral exhortation leans heavily on anecdotal, historical examples. (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.) She cites Queen Elizabeth (among many others) as a...

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

Her range of reference is wide: Milton , Cromwell , Virginia Woolf , Joan Baez , fairy tales, the Bible, and settings (as her publisher puts it) from Jerusalem to Hollywood, cafes to graveyards.

At some date during the English Civil War, Cromwell 's army laid waste the parish church of Woodbridge.

JW 's ancestor Henry Williams of Ysgafell in Montgomeryshire was a Baptist preacher and a member of the Welsh puritan Vavasor Powell 's Independent Church. In 1655 he signed Powell's Word for God, a...