Major-General Hezekiah Haynes and the Failure of Oliver Cromw... - 9780367903107

David Farr

Hezekiah Haynes was shaped by the Puritanism of his father\u2019s network and experienced emigration to New England as part of a community removing themselves from Charles I\u2019s Laudianism. Returning to fight in the British Civil Wars, Haynes rose to become Cromwell\u2019s ruler of the east of England, tasked with bringing about a godly revolution, and in rising to prominence he became the centre of his own developing political and religious network, which included a kin link to Cromwell himself. As one of Cromwell\u2019s Major-Generals Haynes was tasked with security and a reformation of manners, but he was hampered by the limits of the early modern state and Cromwell\u2019s own contradictory political and religious ideas. The Restoration saw Haynes imprisoned in the Tower before emerging to return to the community in which he had been raised, and continuing the links with some of those he had worked with for Cromwell and the kin he had left behind in New England in dealing with .