Note 1121 — Chapter II
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Cp. Gardiner, Cromwell's Place in History, pp. 37-50; History of the Great Civil War, 1889, ii, 53-55, 310-12; iii, 527. While grudgingly noting his straightforwardness, Dr. Gardiner assumes to discredit Lilburne as impracticable, yet is all the while demonstrating that Cromwell's constructive work utterly collapsed. Lilburne explicitly and accurately predicted that the tyrannies of the new régime would bring about the Restoration (Guizot, Histoire de la république d'Angleterre et de Cromwell, ed. Bruxelles, 1854, i, 52).