...afterward this son, speaking to one of his Parliaments, described his social position in the words, "I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity." Oliver had no reason to be ashamed of his ancestry on either side. His great-grandfather — Richard...

...testimony from the People, God and the People shall take it from me, else I •will not part with it. I was by birth a Gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I endeavoured to do my duty towards God, the People, and the Commonwealth ; and God's presence and testimony...

...and to play so commanding and unique a part as to give his name to this period of English history. "I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity," such was Oliver Cromwell's account of himself. Cromwell came of an important country family, widely...

...men's interest never dies. Of this far-shining company Cromwell was surely one. CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE " I WAS by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity." Such was Cromwell's account of himself. He was the descendant in the third degree of Richard Cromwell,...

...men's interest never dies. Of this far-shining company Cromwell was surely one. CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE " I WAS by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity." Such was Cromwell's account of himself. He was the descendant in the third degree of Richard Cromwell,...

...a part as to give his name to this period of English history. The Early Life of Oliver Cromwell. " I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity," such was Oliver Cromwell's account of himself. Cromwell came of an important country family, widely...

...carrying his life and his kingship to inevitable destruction. Oliver Cromwell once proudly said that he was " by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity." He was born at Huntingdon, on the 25th of April, 1599. His grandfather, Sir Henry Cromwell, was knighted...

...Protector certainly did not exaggerate his descent when he said, in a speech to his first Parliament, ' I was by birth a gentleman ; living neither in any considerable height, nor vet in obscurity.' Robert Cromwell settled at Huntingdon, where he had an estate and a brewery. The...

...paternal inheritance in one of his famous speeches to Parliament, on the grounds that it was "time to look back ... I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity".8 It was a fair estimate of the position of the Cromwells by the end of the sixteenth century,...

...richest families in Huntingdonshire and one of the hundred richest in East Anglia. Early life 1599-1642 7 was by birth a gentleman; living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity' (from Cromwell's speech to his first Protectorate Parliament, September 1654) Oliver Cromwell was born...