OLIVER CROMWELL'S

LETTERS AND SPEECHES:

WITH ELUCIDATIONS.

BY

THOMAS CARLYLE.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

NEW YORK:

SCRIBNER, WELFORD, AND COMPANY.

1871.

LONDON:

ROBSON AND SONS, PRINTERS, PANCRAS ROAD, N.W.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

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

1654

To dismiss Col. Alured.

CXCIV. To Col. Alured: Whitehall, 16 May

1654

Official Order to the Colonel.

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CXCV. To Sir T. Vyner: Whitehall, 5 July 1654 14

A City Preacher.

SPEECH II. Meeting of the First Protectorate Parliament,

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4 Sept. 1654

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

and Pilgrimage towards Canaan through the Wil-
derness. Our difficulties: Antichrist; Levellers, Fifth-
Monarchists, Jesuits. Our attainments: Some Reform
of Law; Reform of Church; Peace, with almost all
Nations. Finance; necessity of Concord.

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SPEECH III. To the First Protectorate Parliament, 12

Sept. 1654.

Cannot have the Foundations of Government sub-
mitted to debate in this Assembly. A free Parlia-
ment they; but he also, in virtue of whom they sit,
must be an unquestioned Protector. His history
since he entered on these Public Struggles; Dis-
missal of the Long Parliament; Abdication of the
Little Parliament; Protectorship, on what founded,
by whom acknowledged. To proceed no farther, till
they acknowledge it.

LETTER CXCVI. To R. Bennet, Esq. Whitehall, 12

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Jan. 1654-5

Virginia and Maryland.

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CXCVII. To Captain Crook: Whitehall, 20 Jan.

1654-5

To watch Adjutant-Gen. Allen.

SPEECH IV. Dissolution of the First Protectorate Par-

liament, 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 dis-
turbances, once well asleep, awakened into new peril-
ous activity during these debates. Necessary that
they be dissolved.

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CHRONOLOGICAL

PART IX.

THE MAJOR-GENERALS. 1655-56.

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

1655

The Dey of Tunis. Instructions.

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