KPD 6065 (13)

1881, office 5. Barringer bequest.

OLIVER CROMWELL'S

LETTERS AND SPEECHES:

WITH ELUCIDATIONS.

BY

THOMAS CARLYLE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY.

M.D.CCC.LXIX.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

PART VIII.

FIRST PROTECTORATE PARLIAMENT. 1654.

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

Dare not undertake the Purchase recommended.

CXCIII. To Lord Fleetwood: Whitehall, 16 May

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8

1654

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To dismiss Col. Alured.

CXCIV. To Col. Alured: Whitehall, 16 May 1654

Official Order to the Colonel.

CXCV. To Sir T. Vyner: Whitehall, 5 July 1654

A City Preacher.

SPEECH II. Meeting of the First Protectorate Parliament, 4

Sept. 1654

Goodwin's Sermon, On the Deliverance out of Egypt, and

Pilgrimage towards Canaan through the Wilderness. Our

difficulties: Antichrist; Levellers, Fifth-Monarchists, Jesuits.

Our attainments: Some Reform of Law; Reform of Church;

Peace, with almost all Nations. Finance; necessity of Con-

cord.

.

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SPEECH III. To the First Protectorate 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 unquestioned
Protector. His history since he entered on these Public
Struggles: Dismissal of the Long Parliament; Abdication of
the Little Parliament; Protectorship, on what founded, by
whom acknowledged. To proceed no farther, till they ac-
knowledge it.

LETTER CXCVI. To R. Bennet, Esq.: Whitehall, 12 Jan.
1654-5 .

99

Virginia and Maryland.

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CXCVII. To Captain Crook: Whitehall, 20 Jan. 1654-5 66

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
endeavouring 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, awakened into
new perilous activity during these debates. Necessary that
they be dissolved.

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CHRONOLOGICAL

PART IX.

THE MAJOR-GENERALS. 1655-56.

. 97

LETTER CXCVIII. To Gen. Blake: Whitehall, 13 June 1655 105

The Dey of Tunis. Instructions.

CXCIX. To Lord Fleetwood: Whitehall, 22 June 1655 108

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

and. Private feelings.