THE REDEVELOPMENT OF ENGLANDTHE COUNCIL OF ELDERS KNEW it would be a massive task to reform the English. Artemisini sent for more warriors to help enforce the measures they had decreed, for craftsmen willing to help in the rebuilding, and for healers to attend to health matters. There was indeed great resistance from the parliamentarians. Things would have been worse had the king been powerful. But the previous king had been executed by the parliamentarians 17 years before, leaving the country without a king for 11 years.
One of the parliamentarians, called ‘old ironsides,’ became the country’s ‘protector’ but had unexpectedly died. The new king on his enthronement had almost immediately courted the Dutch and French in turn in efforts to usurp power from the parliamentarians and had pushe
