Major-General Robert Lilburne was appointed military governor of the Yorkshire district under the Major-Generals system introduced by Cromwell in 1655 following the Penruddock rising. The system placed military men over the civilian county committees, required a decimation tax on known Royalists, and represented the most overtly military phase of Interregnum rule.
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