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déest son of Oliver Courell.

Drawn and Engraved by W. Bend from a there quarter Portrait, in the Possession of Oliver Cromwell Eng

Published by Longman Hurst. Rees. Orme & Brown. Londen. Jan1820.

CHAPTER XV.

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HENRY CROM

RICHARD CROMWELL'S ACCESSION. —A PARLIAMENT CALLED、
-BILL DEBATED FOR THE RECOGNITION OF HIS TITLE.
DEBATES UPON THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE HOUSE
OF LORDS. DISSOLUTION OF THE PARLIAMENT.
RESTORATION OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT. A COMMIT-
TEE OF SAFETY APPOINTED. A NEW GREAT SEAL.
RICHARD CROMWELL'S ABDICATION.
WELL RELINQUISHES THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND,
AND A NEW GOVERNMENT APPOINTED.
RICHARD CROMWELL, AND HIS DEBTS TO BE PAID BY THE
PARLIAMENT. — LORD CLARENDON's, and Ludlow's, and
LORD BROGHILL'S ACCOUNTS OF THOSE TRANSACTIONS.
OBSERVATIONS UPON THESE SEVERAL ACCOUNTS IN JUS-
TIFICATION OF RICHARD CROMWELL'S CONDUCT. SOME
OF HIS PRIVATE LETTERS.
LIC AND PRIVATE CHARACTER. HIS LETTERS.
SITUATION AFTER THE RESTORATION.

PROVISION FOR

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HIM FROM GENERAL MONCK.

CONCLUSION.

IN continuation, from the death of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of Richard Cromwell

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Whitelock proceeds. Immediately upon his (Oliver Cromwell's) death the council assembled, and being satisfied that the Protector, in his lifetime, according to the petition and advice, had declared his son (Richard Cromwell) to be his successor, caused the same to be proclaimed, in a solemn manner, in London and Westminster,

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and they went the same day to him (Richard Cromwell) to acquaint him with it, and sent a committee of the council into the city to inform them thereof. Then there follows the proclamation.

The council gave the oath to Richard; and, with his consent, another proclamation was published for all, that were officers in his father's time, to continue in their places.

10th September, 1658. Richard and his council kept a day of humiliation, and ordered the keeping of it another time in London.

Several addresses came to the new Protector, declaring satisfaction in his succession, and resolution to adhere to him; also, an address from the sea-officers, acknowledging Richard, and promising to stand by him; and from General Monck and his officers in Scotland: also, an address from the gentlemen and freeholders of the county of Buckingham, to which Richard made very good and prudent answers.

18th October. Audience given by Richard to the French ambassador; when he carried himself discreetly.

16th November. Addresses from the officers of the army, presented by General Desborough; and the officers of the army attended, and made large professions of their obedience and faithfulness; and he courted them at a high rate.

23d November. The funeral of the late Protector was celebrated with great solemnity.

26th November. Richard knighted General Morgan, a very gallant person.

Several audiences were given by Richard to foreign ministers, sent to him from neighbouring princes and states, to condole the death of his father, and to congratulate his succession to the government.

December. Richard, by advice of his council, determined to call a Parliament, to meet on the 27th day of January then next.

January. Whitelock met about the business of the Great Seal, whereof he was then again made a commissioner: that Richard had a particular respect for him; and upon the 22d of this month, by advice of some near to him, without any seeking for it by Whitelock, he was sent for to Whitehall, where he met the two Lords Commissioners of the Seal, Fiennes and L'Isle, and they together being called into the council-chamber, the Great Seal was delivered to His Highness, sitting in council, who presently delivered it to the three, as Keepers of the Great Seal of England.

Journals of the House of Commons, 27th January. The Parliament met; and the oath ap. pointed by the humble additional and explanatory petition and advice, to be taken by every member, of either House of Parliament, before he sit in Parliament, was administered accordingly; the substance of which was, to maintain the true reformed Protestant Christian religion in the purity

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