"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a Government as this is."
— Oliver Cromwell

January 1, 1970

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Statement to Parliament (4 February 1658) quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 466