God's Battleaxe

Until now the history of John Bradshawe Lord President of Englandâ s short-lived Republic has been confined to footnotes in the biographies of other men. The author of this first full-length survey of Bradshaweâ s life draws from unpublished material to tell of a remarkable career during Englandâ s most turbulent period. John Milton said he exceeded the glory of all former tyrannicides. Dr. George Bate called him a â viper of hell.â In 1775 Benjamin Franklin said John Bradshaweâ s deeds presented the most glorious example of unshaken virtue love of freedom and impartial justice ever exhibited on the blood-stained theater of human actions and urged that his memory be forever blessed.