Original sentence: Cromwell himself had much disdain for the Magna Carta, at one point describing it as "Magna Farta" to a defendant who sought to rely on it.Oliver Cromwell was accused of destroying Magna Carta and many thought he should be crowned just so that it would apply
Edited sentence: Oliver Cromwell was accused of destroying The Charter and many thought he should be crowned just so The Charter would apply; this plan failed and for the brief period of the Commonwealth (although it would not have seemed brief to those who lived through it) England for the first time was ruled by a single man above all other forms of authority; an irony when one considers that is exactly what his supporters had fought to prevent