Excerpt from A Letter: Addressed to the Gentlemen Commoners of Worcestershire, on the Danger of Innovation to a Government When they had done all this, and in doing it branded their name with infamy, what did they obtain A Cromwell - a protector - a pre server of their liberties - a man, who after having destroyed the sovereign power, by the help of fanatics and discontented men, soon Openly set himself up above all things that were ever called sovereign in England, who reduced to subjection a warlike and discontented nation, by means of a mutinous army, and commanded a mutinous army by means of seditious and factions officers, who was humbly and daily petitioned that he would be pleased, at the rate of millions a year, to be hired as master of those who had hired him before to be their servant, and who had the estates and lives of three nations as much at his disposal as was once the little inheritance of his father. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.