"[E]very body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him."
— Oliver Cromwell

January 1, 1970

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Samuel Pepys, diary (12 July 1667), quoted in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. VII, ed. Henry B. Wheatley (1896), p. 18