"Chapter 81." by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1876-) OLIVER
CROMWELL had been so strong and powerful that it seemed quite
natural to the people to choose his son, Richard, as the next
Protector. But Richard was a very different man from his father.
He had not that in him which makes a great soldier or a great
ruler. The army, the Parliament, and the people soon found this
out, and troubles began. In a few months, Richard gave up his
office of Protector, and went away to live quietly in his house
in the country. The people were tired of being ruled by the
army. They were tired of the gloom and the sternness of the
Puritans. They remembered with regret the days of Charles I.,
when people dressed in gay colors, when they sang and played,
when it was not thought wicked to have Christmas games or
village dances, and they longed for these days to come again.
They forgot how cruel and bad Charles had been, they remembered
that he had a son–the son whom the Scots had already crowned
King. General Monk, who had ruled