On occasion he treated parliament with disdain when his wishes were not speedily implemented and prorogued the Barebones parliament when it seemed overly quarrelsome about his ideas.

有时，当他的愿望没有得到迅速实现时，他会轻蔑地对待议会；当准系统议会似乎对他的想法过于争论时，他就会让议会休会。