The Pamphleteers Protestant Champion: Viewing Oliver Cromwell Through the Media of his Day Kevin A. Creed The years between 1640 and 1660 witnessed in England a greater outpouring of printed material than the country had seen since the first printing press had begun operating in the 1470s.1 The breakdown of government and Church censorship in the early 1640s was almost total until the mid-1650s when Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector reimposed some controls. Not until the …showed first 75 words of 6678 total…

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