or fiber of a statement, in the text, undertake to introduce there, but deposit them without ceremony in the loose lumber-room, in a more or less swept condition. "London, 11th May, 1846." "T. CARLYLE. The foregoing preface will sufficiently explain what this Supplement pretends to be. The new letters, documents, and elucidations concerning Cromwell are all here; but nothing could be given here except in the detached form, each piece standing on its own basis, and to be counted only as a supplemental one, without support from the others, except what the reader's own intelligence and diligence might furnish. Such new letters as have been interwoven into the new text, these, with their commentary, stand here first in order; may perhaps pretend, even in their disunited form, to a little more importance than the others. The Appendix is given wholly as it stands in the new edition. For each new piece I have indicated the old page to which it hooks, or might hook, itself; and where that seemed of any benefit, the page and sentence. And so to the reader's "intelligence and diligence," which alone are sovereign in all cases, we will leave this somewhat confused case of the Supplement to Oliver's Letters and Speeches. SUPPLEMENT TO CROMWELL'S LETTERS AND SPEECHES. No. I. Vol. i., p. 131: And Lord Capel has seen good to vanish again.'] Lord Capel has vanished; and the 12,000 zealous Volunteers of the Association are dismissed to their countries, with monition to be ready when called for again. Moreover, to avoid like perils in future, it is now resolved to make a Garrison of Cambridge; to add new works to the Castle, and fortify the Town itself. This is now going on in the early spring days of 1643; and Colonel Cromwell and all hands are busy! Here is a small Document incidentally preserved to us, which becomes significant if well read. Fen Drayton is a small Village on the Eastern edge of Cambridgeshire, between St. Ives and Cambridge,-well known to Oliver. In the small Church of Fen Drayton, after divine service on Sunday the 12th of March, 1642-3, the following Warrant, 'delivered to the Church-wardings' (by one Mr. Norris, a Constable, who spells very ill), and by them to the Curate, is read to a rustic congregation,-who sit, somewhat agape, I apprehend, and uncertain what to do about it. COM. CANT. ('CAMBRIDGESHIRE TO WIT'). To all and every the Inhabitants of Fen Drayton in the Hundred of Papworth. WHEREAS We have been enforced, by apparent grounds of approaching danger, to begin to fortify the Town of Cambridge, for preventing the Enemy's inroad, and the better to maintain the peace of this County. Having in part seen your good affections to the Cause, and now stand ing in need of your further assistance to the perfecting of the said Forti. fications, which will cost at least Two thousand pounds, We are encour aged as well as necessitated to desire a Freewill Offering of a Liberal Contribution from you, for the better enabling of us to attain our desired ends, viz. the Preservation of our County;-knowing that every honest and well-affected man, considering the vast expenses we have already been at, and our willingness to do according to our ability, will be ready to contribute his best assistance to a work of so high concernment and so good an end. We do therefore desire that what shall be by you freely given and collected may with all convenient speed be sent to the Commissioners at Cambridge, to be employed to the use aforesaid. And so you shall further engage us to be Yours ready to serve, OLIVER CROMWELL, (and Six others.") Cambridge, this 8th of March, 1642. The Thomas Martyn, Sir Thomas, and the Six others whom we suppress, are all of the Cambridge Committees of those times;† zealous Puritan men, not known to us otherwise. Norris did not raise much at Fen Drayton; only 17. 19s. 2d., ' subscribed by Fifteen persons,' according to his Endorsement ;-the general public at Fen Drayton, and probably in other such places, hesitates a little to draw its purse as yet! One way or other, however, the work of fortifying Cambridge was got done. A regular Force lies henceforth in Cambridge: Captains Fleetwood, Desborow, Whalley, new soldiers who will become veterans and known to us, are on service here. Of course the Academic stillness is much fluttered by the war-drum, and many a confused brabble springs up between Gown and Garrison; college tippets, and on occasion still more venerable objects, getting torn by the business! The truth is, though Cambridge is not so Malignant as Oxford, the Surplices at Allhallowtide have still much sway there; and va rious Heads of Houses are by no means what one could wish * Cooper's Annals of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1845), iii., 340. + Husbands' Second Collection (London, 1646), p. 329; Commons Journals, iii., 153, &c. Reported complete, 15th July, 1643 (Cooper's Annals, iii., 350). of whom accordingly Oliver has had, and still occasionally has, to send, by instalments as the cases ripen,—a select batch up to Parliament: Reverend Dr. This and then also Reverend Dr. That; who are lodged in the Tower, in Ely House, in Lambeth or elsewhere, in a tragic manner, and pass very troublous years.* Cambridge continues henceforth the Bulwark and Metropolis of the Association; where the Committees sit, where the centre of all business is. 'Colonel Cook,' I think, is Captain of the Garrison; but the soul of the Garrison, and of the Association generally, is probably another Colonel. Now here, now swiftly there; -as the following traits still witness. No. II. [Vol. i., p. 134: precedes Letter VI. there.] THE main brunt of the War, during this year 1643, is in the extreme Southwest, between Sir Ralph Hopton and the Earl of Stamford; and in the North, chiefly in Yorkshire, between the Earl of Newcastle and Lord Fairfax. The Southwest, Cornwall or Devonshire transactions do not much concern us in this place; but with the Yorkshire we shall by and by have some concern. A considerable flame of War burns conspicuous in those two regions: the rest of England, all in a hot but very dim state, may be rather said to smoke, everywhere ready for burning, and inci dentally catch fire here and there. Essex, the Lord General, lies at Windsor, all spring, with the finest Parliamentary Army we have yet had; but unluckily can undertake almost nothing, till he see. For his Majesty in Oxford is also quiescent mostly; engaged in a negotiation with his Parliament; in a Treaty,—of which Colonel Hampden and other wise men, though my Lord of Essex cannot, already predict the * Querela Cantabrigiensis, &c., &c., in Cooper, ubi supra. |