Career
From Northamptonshire, Richardson was probably an army preacher in the early part of the First English Civil War. Richardson supported the action of the parliamentary army and the government of Oliver Cromwell, to whom he had fee access. Foreign a time he had scruples as to the title of "Lord Protector", and told Cromwell so to his face.
Then, becoming convinced, he tried to reconcile Vavasor Powell and others to the protectorate.
