PART VIII.

FIRST PROTECTORATE PARLIAMENT. 1654.

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LETTER CXXX. To R. Mayor, Esq.: Whitehall, 4 May, 1654 77

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Dare not undertake the Purchase recommended.

CXXXI. To Lord Fleetwood: Whitehall, 16 May,

CXXXII. To Col. Alured: Whitehall, 16 May, 1654 80

Official Order to the Colonel.

CXXXIII. To Sir T. Rymer: Whitehall, 5 July,

SPEECH II. Meeting of the First Protectorate Parliament, 4

Sept., 1654

ness.

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Goodwin's Sermon, On the Deliverance out of Egypt,
and Pilgrimage towards Canaan through the Wilder-
Our difficulties: Antichrist; Levellers, Fifth-Mo-
narchists, Jesuits. Our attainments: Some Reform of
Law; Reform of Church; Peace, with almost all Nations.
Finance; necessity of Concord.

SPEECH III. To the same Parliament, 12 Sept., 1654.

Cannot have the Foundations of Government submitted
to debate in this Assembly. A free Parliament they; but
he also, in virtue of whom they sit, must be an unques-
tioned Protector. His history since he entered on these
Public Struggles: Dismissal of the Long Parliament; Ab-
dication of the Little Parliament; Protectorship, on what
founded, by whom acknowledged. To proceed no farther,
till they acknowledge it.

LETTER CXXXIV. To R. Bennet, Esq.: Whitehall, 12 Jan.,

1654-5

Virginia and Maryland.

CXXXV. To Captain Crook: Whitehall, 20 Jan.,

1654-5.

To watch Adjutant-Gen. Allen.

SPEECH IV. Dissolution of the First Protectorate Parliament,

22 Jan., 1654-5

Regrets that they have not communicated with him: he

was not unconcerned with them; has been struggling and

endeavoring for them, keeping Peace round them;-does
not know, on their part, whether they have been alive or
dead. Of trees that foster only things poisonous under
their shadow. Of disturbances, once well asleep, awaken-

ed into new perilous activity during these debates. Ne-
cessary that they be dissolved.

CHRONOLOGICAL

PART IX.

THE MAJOR GENERALS. 1655-56

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LETTER CXXXVI. To Ger.. Blake: Whitehall, 13 June,

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By the Rev. Mr. Brewster. Henry Cromwell gone to

Ireland. Private feelings.

CXXXVIII. To Gen. Blake: Whitehall, 30 July,

1655

Instructions not yet to divide the Fleet. Person for Lisbon.

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LETTER CXXXIX. To Gen. Blake: Whitehall, 13 Sept., 1655 181

Plate Fleet.

CXL. To Maryland Commissioners: Whitehall, 26

Sept., 1655.

LETTER CXLI. To Gen. Goodson: Whitehall, Oct., 1655. 192

Of Jamaica:-This and the two following.

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CXLII. To D. Serle, Esq.: Whitehall, Oct., 1655 194

66 CXLIII. To Gen. Fortescue: Whitehall, Nov., 1655 195

66 CXLIV. To Henry Cromwell: Whitehall, 21 Nov.,

By Capt. Lloyd. Suggestions: Cadiz, Puntal, Gibraltar.

66 CXLVI. To the same: Whitehall, 6 May, 1656

Claims on Portugal.

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LETTER CXLVII. To Richard Cromwell: Whitehall, 29

SPEECH V. Meeting of the Second Protectorate Parliament,

17 Sept., 1656

Our difficulties: Spain, and why we have gone to war

with Spain; Papists, Cavaliers, Levellers, Fifth Monarch-

ists; the need there was of Major-Generals. Our reme-

dies: To prosecute the war with vigor; to maintain stead-

ily the aim of all these struggles, Liberty of Conscience

and a pure Gospel Ministry; to reform the law :-to reform

Manners; that will be the grand remedy of all. Finance.

Exhortation; Divine encouragement and hope: Eighty

fifth Psalm.

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PART X.

SECOND PROTECTORATE PARLIAMENT. 1657-58.

LETTER CXLIX. To the Mayor of Newcastle: Whitehall,

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Presbyterians and Independents.

CL. To Cardinal Mazarin: Whitehall, 26 Dec.,

255

SPEECH VI. To the Second Protectorate Parliament, 23 Jan.,

1656-7.

Thanks for their Congratulation on the failure of Sinder-

comb's Plot.

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KINGSHIP

LETTER CLI. To the same Parliament: Whitehall, 25 Dec.,

SPEECH VII. To the same Parliament, 31 March, 1657

Reception of their Petition and Advice with their Offer
of the Title of King. Returns pious thanks; craves time
to consider; will then answer.

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SPEECH VIII. To a Committee of the same Parliament, 3

Answers with praise as to the Petition and Advice gene-
rally, but as to the Title of King, with distinct though not
emphatic No.

IX. Conference with the Committee of Ninety-nine

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in regard to the Title of King, 11 April, 1657 283

Difficulty as to how they shall proceed in this matter of

Conferring.

X. Second Conference with the same, 13 April, 1657 293

Endeavors to rebut their arguments, used in the former

Conference, in favor of the Title. Not of necessity; at

best only of expediency or advantage. John Hampden and

the Ironsides. Leaves the matter undecided: Conference

to be renewed.

XI. Third Conference with the Committee of Nine-

ty-nine, 20 April, 1657.

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Replies to their argument drawn from Law; contends

that whatever Title they, the Parliament, establish, be it

that of Protector, or another, will be Law. For the rest,

the matter not an essential; unimportant in comparison with

others in this New Instrument of Government,-to which

others, let us rather address ourselves. Conference to be

renewed on the morrow.

XII. Fourth Conference with the same, 21 April,

Animadverts on various Articles of the Petition and Ad-

vice, or New Instrument, which seem to require reconsi-

deration; leaves that of the Kingship unmeddled with.

XIII. To the Second Protectorate Parliament in a

body, 8 May, 1657

Briefly refuses the Title of King.

XIV. To the same, 9 June, 1657, on the Presenta-

tion of some Bills for assent

Thanks for their Supplies of Money, as the custom is.

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LETTER CLII. To Gen. Blake: Whitehall, 10 June, 1657. 349

Jewel for the victory at Santa Cruz.

CLIII. To Gen. Montague: Whitehall, 11 Aug.,

LETTER CLIV. ToJ. Dunch, Esq.: Hampton Court, 27 Aug.,

CLV. To Gen. Montague: Hampton Court, 30 Aug.,

1657

In sanction of his treatment of the Dutch Ships.

CLVI. To Sir W. Lockhart: Whitehall, 31 Aug.,

1657

Mardike and Dunkirk. Peremptory: To bring Mazarin

to the point.

CLVII. To the same: same date.

Same subject.

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SPEECH XV. To the Two Houses of Parliament; Opening

of the Second Session of the Second Protectorate

Parliament, 20 Jan., 1657-8

Reasons for thankfulness in such a Meeting: Religious

Liberty, the great object of our struggles, gained, and in

the way of being made secure: Peace hitherto; a Godly

Ministry. Understand the works of God, what God has

and

done for you ;-and persevere prosper.

XVI. To the same, the Commons having raised de-

bates as to the Title of the other House, 25 Jan.,

1657-8.

Perils of the Nation; perils of the Protestant Interest in

Europe at large; pressing need there is of unanimity. Ex-

hortation and Remonstrance: Do not sacrifice great vital

interests for titles and niceties.

XVII. Dissolution of the Second Protectorate Par-

liament, 4 Feb., 1657-8 .

What he might have expected in this Meeting of Par-

liament; what he has found in it; Angry debating; and

the Nation on the verge of conflagration thereby. Dis-

solves the Parliament.

DEATH OF THE PROTECTOR

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