Oliver Cromwell removing the mace from the Commons

Oliver Cromwell removing the mace from the Commons Chamber and dissolving the Rump Parliament in 1653. Behind him, a group of Roundheads arrest a cavalier. Take away that Bauble. Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett's Comic History of England, Bradbury, Agnew and Co. London, 1880

1651 Abbott Abeckett Boscobel Comical Cromwell Idea Interrogate Leech Mace Parliamentarian Pursuit Removing Roundhead Royalist Worcester

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