English Civil War – Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector An Act for the Adjournment of the Present Parliament from the six and twentieth of June 1657 unto the Twentieth of January next ensuing. Printed black letter Act of Parliament unbound, 2pp folio plus title. The beginning of the end for the Commonwealth Parliament. By this time Cromwell had become increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress for which he blamed Parliament – in the following year he dismissed them altogether and for the only time in our history, England was ruled by a supreme dictator