Colonel John Okey 1606-1662

Colonel John Okey 1606-1662 John Okey was an Anabaptist, London merchant, Parliamentary soldier, active in Parliamentarian politics, a regicide and an MP for Bedfordshire in 1658. This book recounts his life against the backdrop of the Civil War and its aftermath. It draws on Okey’s letters to give a vivid first hand account of military campaigns. After he and other colonels published The Humble Petition of Several Colonels of the Army in 1654, for which he was disciplined and lost his commissio