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PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN: 1 LORD PROTECTOR OLIVER CROMWELL ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP, AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY by Thomas Carlyle: I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology. II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam. III. The Hero as Poet. Dante; Shakspeare. IV. The Hero as Priest. Luther; Reformation: Knox; Puritanism. V. The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns. VI. The Hero as King. Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern Revolutionism. 1. No correlation has ever been established between hat size and intelligence. However, Both Emerson, in the essay “Circles,” and Nietzsche, in “Schopenhauer as Educator,” instance Lord Protector Cromwell’s remark that: A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN WALDEN: Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which PEOPLE OF is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly WALDEN overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it. A robust poor man, one sunny day here in Concord, praised a fellow-townsman to me, because, as he said, he was kind to the poor; meaning himself. The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. I once heard a reverend lecturer on England, a man of learning and intelligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shakspeare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and others, speak next of her Christian heroes, whom, as if his profession required it of him, he elevated to a place far above all the rest, as the greatest of the great. They were Penn, Howard, and Mrs. Fry. Every one must feel the falsehood and cant of this. The last were not England’s best men and women; only, perhaps, her best philanthropists. FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SIR FRANCIS BACON OLIVER CROMWELL JOHN MILTON ISAAC NEWTON WILLIAM PENN JOHN HOWARD ELIZABETH FRY HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK A WEEK: Already, as appears from the records, “At a General Court PEOPLE OF held at Boston in New England, the 7th of the first month, 1643- A WEEK 4.” — “Wassamequin, Nashoonon, Kutchamaquin, Massaconomet, and Squaw Sachem, did voluntarily submit themselves” to the English; and among other things did “promise to be willing from time to time to be instructed in the knowledge of God.” Being asked “Not to do any unnecessary work on the Sabbath day, especially within the gates of Christian towns,” they answered, “It is easy to them; they have not much to do on any day, and they can well take their rest on that day.” — “So,” says Winthrop, in his Journal, “we causing them to understand the articles, and all the ten commandments of God, and they freely assenting to all, they were solemnly received, and then presented the Court with twenty-six fathom more of wampom; and the Court gave each of them a coat of two yards of cloth, and their dinner; and to them and their men, every of them, a cup of sack at their departure; so they took leave and went away.” What journeyings on foot and on horseback through the wilderness, to preach the Gospel to these minks and muskrats! who first, no doubt, listened with their red ears out of a natural hospitality and courtesy, and afterward from curiosity or even interest, till at length there were “praying Indians,” and, as the General Court wrote to Cromwell, the “work is brought to this perfection, that some of the Indians themselves can pray and prophesy in a comfortable manner.” It was in fact an old battle and hunting ground through which we had been floating, the ancient dwelling-place of a race of hunters and warriors. Their weirs of stone, their arrowheads and hatchets, their pestles, and the mortars in which they pounded Indian corn before the white man had tasted it, lay concealed in the mud of the river bottom. Tradition still points out the spots where they took fish in the greatest numbers, by such arts as they possessed. It is a rapid story the historian will have to put together. Miantonimo,— Winthrop, — Webster. Soon he comes from Montaup to Bunker Hill, from bear-skins, parched corn, bows and arrows, to tiled roofs, wheat-fields, guns and swords. Pawtucket and Wamesit, where the Indians resorted in the fishing season, are now Lowell, the city of spindles and Manchester of America, which sends its cotton cloth round the globe. Even we youthful voyagers had spent a part of our lives in the village of Chelmsford, when the present city, whose bells we heard, was its obscure north district only, and the giant weaver was not yet fairly born. So old are we; so young is it. OLIVER CROMWELL HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of A Week and Walden: HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1599 April 25, Wednesday (Old Style): Oliver Cromwell was born at Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire and would obtain his basic education at the Huntindon Grammar School. His father was the youngest son of a man who had inherited a minor portion of the vast estates that Thomas Cromwell (1485?-1540), Earl of Essex had seized from Catholic monasteries during 1538-1539. His Welsh great-grandfather, who had been named Williams, had adopted the name Cromwell in honor of his patron Thomas Cromwell, who was his cousin. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of A Week and Walden: HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN 1607 Michael Drayton’s THE LEGEND OF GREAT CROMWEL. DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of A Week and Walden: HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1616 During this year and the following one, a lad with an enormous head and a mole over one eye, named Oliver Cromwell, was a commoner of a Cambridge college. (Eventually this lad’s enormous head, with its signature mole over the eye, would wind up honorably interred in a chapel near this college.) HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN 1617 When the father of Oliver Cromwell died, he was the youngest son but did inherit some property in East Anglia. He would be able to live by farming and rent collecting in Huntingdon. HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1625 The Stuart Period in British History • King Charles I, 1625-1649 • Civil War, 1640-1649; Commonwealth, 1649-1653; Protectorate, 1653-1660 • Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, 1653-1658 (beheaded 1661) • Richard Cromwell, 1658-1660 (died 1712) • King Charles II, 1660-1685 • King James II, 1685-1688 • Glorious Revolution and Interregnum, 1688-1689 • Queen Mary II, 1689-1694 • William III, Stadholder of the Netherlands, 1672-1702; King William III of England 1689-1702 • Queen Anne, 1702-1714 HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN 1628 Sponsored by the Montagu family, Oliver Cromwell was elected to the Parliament. HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1629 While Richard Lovelace was 11 years of age, King Charles I nominated “Thomas Lovelace,” upon petition of the mother, Anne Barne Lovelace, to Sutton’s foundation at the Charterhouse school in London, and presumably “Thomas” was a mistake for “Richard.” We don’t know whether during the 5 years he was there he was attending the Charterhouse classes, or was being privately tutored. We do know that for 3 of these 5 years he was studying alongside Richard Crashaw, who would also become a poet. The Parliament to which Oliver Cromwell had been elected was dissolved by King Charles I because it failed to vote him money. Oliver would take up farming in Huntingdon and become a convert to Puritanism. Charles would until 1640 rule personally (this would prove to be something of a mistake of judgment for, with the parliament dissolved, the cloth trade slumping, and bad harvests, of course there would be nobody to blame but Charley). CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of A Week and Walden: HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDEN 1631 Oliver Cromwell was at St. Ives. HDT WHAT? INDEX PEOPLE OF A WEEK AND WALDEN:OLIVER CROMWELL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1634 In about this year, in England, John Clarke got married with Sarah Davis (1609-1691). Edward Bulkeley, the eldest son of the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, had emigrated to the American colonies and in this year was admitted as a member of the First Church of Boston. At the visitation of a Cardinal in this year, the rector at Odell, Peter Bulkeley, was suspended, because unable to accept the Laudian discipline and because he used neither a surplice nor the sign of the cross in baptism, “accounting them ceremonies superstitious” (see Bedfordshire Magazine, ii, 30-2). Peter had been born in the village and had succeeded his father as rector in 1624.

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