“... she had foreseen the New Model Army's occupation of London in the tense weeks before Charles I was tried. Two years after that she had experienced a further trance and this time saw an army on the battlefield, led by a figure of valour and courage, God indicating that 'Oliver Cromwell, then Lord General, was that Gideon'. Cromwell's defeat of the Scots at the battle of Dunbar soon afterwards offered Anna confirmation of the truth of her visions.” VisionsHistory Of EnglandOliver CromwellAnna Trapnel Book:The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown Source: The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
“... it was easy to dismiss her as a fraud until you actually met her -- when the possibility became much more real that she might indeed by God's handmaiden.” VisionsHistory Of EnglandAnna Trapnel Book:The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown Source: The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown