This was an institution that had so discredited itself with inactivity and corruption in the pursuit of self-interest that one of its own members, Cromwell, the man who had defended that parliament against the king, who had risked his life to try to save it, who had risked soldiers' lives and had soldiers killed to try to save the institution, now turned against it.
Cette institution s'était tellement discréditée par son oisiveté, sa corruption et la défense de ses propres intérêts que l'un de ses propres membres, Cromwell, l'homme qui avait défendu ce Parlement contre le Roi, qui avait mis sa propre vie en danger et qui avait risqué et perdu la vie de soldats pour tenter de sauver cette institution, s'élevait maintenant contre elle.