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   From: william_black@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   "Raktizer Omheit"  wrote in message   
   news:454ec049_1@news.iprimus.com.au...   
      
   . Oliver Cromwell's disciplined, well trained, well armed, well paid,   
   > and highly motivated Puritan Army known as the Roundheads and the   
   > Ironsides   
      
   Modern research seems to indicate that they were mainly reluctant   
   conscripts,  often recruited from  Royalist prisoners,  and they certainly   
   were never regularly paid usually being about eighteen months in arrears...   
      
   They don't seem to have been particularly Puritan either,  well,  not the   
   infantry anyway...   
      
   --   
   William Black   
      
      
   I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.   
   Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland   
   I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate   
   All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach   
   Time for tea.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)