evidence: This article is not another biography of Oliver Cromwell, but is concerned with Cromwell as a soldier, regicide, anti-Leveller, anti-Irishman, military dictator and Puritan. [...] 2 W.C. Abbott (ed.), The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (4 vols., Cambridge, Mass., 1937-47), IV, 471. [...] 25 Fraser, Cromwell p. 338.