Sir George Grey’s Mistake in Oliver Cromwell: Protectorate Politics in a Colonial Collection

Sir George Grey's gift to Auckland Public Library in 1887 included a collection of original documents from the English Protectorate of 1653-59. Central to the collection is a manuscript treaty signed by English and Dutch commissioners. The Cromwell papers have received scant attention since Gre...

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Published in:	Parergon 2015-01, Vol.32 (2), p.115-143
Main Author:	Kemp, Geoff
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1599-1658 1812-1898 Archives Auckland City Libraries Authorship bibliographical Book collectors British imperialism Collections and collecting Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, Oliver (English head of state) English-Netherlandic relations Great Britain Grey Collection (Auckland Libraries) Grey, George Heads of state Historic documents History manuscript collections Manuscripts, English Nineteenth century Protectorates Records and correspondence Sir George Grey Special Collections treaty
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Summary:	Sir George Grey's gift to Auckland Public Library in 1887 included a collection of original documents from the English Protectorate of 1653-59. Central to the collection is a manuscript treaty signed by English and Dutch commissioners. The Cromwell papers have received scant attention since Grey's death but the 'secret treaty', as it was called, rewards investigation for the light it sheds both on the Cromwellian 'imperial moment' identified by recent scholarship and on the 'cult of Cromwell' in the most distant part of the nineteenth-century British Empire. Unlocking its secret, moreover, involves showing that the manuscript has been misdated and mistakenly described for at least 140 years.
ISSN:	0313-6221 1832-8334 1832-8334