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ON APRIL 20, 1653, Cromwell dissolved the remnants of the Long Parliament. No step more agreeable to all classes could have been taken, wrote Edward Conway,1 who was probably speaking for property owners in general, while the deposed bishop of Chichester panegyrized:
A soldier spake, a parliament was dumb.
Silenc’d it was, brave general, by thee:
Well may’st thou boast of Christian liberty,
For sure Christ’s power did never more increase,
Than when He made the devils hold their peace.2
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Percy Simpson, “The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King,” Bodleian Quarterly Record, V (1929), 336.
M. Blundell (ed.), Cavalier: Letters of William Blundell 1620–98 (1933). p. 42.
W. C. Abbott (ed.), Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, 4 vols. (Cambridge, Mass., 1937–47), III, 103.
C. H. Firth (ed.), Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1894), I, 379–80.
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M. A. E. Green (ed.), Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding 1642–1656, 5 vols. (1889–92). (Hereafter C.C.C.)
Diary of John Evelyn, Sept. 22, 1652; C.C.S.P., II, 317; Lord Braybrooke (ed.), Autobiography of Sir John Bramston (Camden Series, 1845), p. 97.
C. H. Firth and R. S. Rait (eds.), Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum 1642–60, 3 vols. (1911), II, 855–58. (Hereafter Acts and Ords.)
A. G. Matthews, Walker Revised (Oxford, 1948). pp. 320, 324. More than thirty of Walker’s sufferers were parties, in the Court of Exchequer, to suits for tithes in which depositions were taken by commission, 1649–60 (40th Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix I, passim).
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The agents were Thomas Bayly, a recent convert to Catholicism, and William Metham, a former student at the English College at Rome. That the mission was at the direction of the government appears from the correspondence of Longland, Cromwell’s agent at Leghorn (Thurloe, III, 635; IV, 59, 92, 172, 200, 232–33, 310; cf. G. F. Warner [ed.], Correspondence of Sir Edward Nicholas, 4 vols. [Camden Series 1886–1920], III, 52–53. [Hereafter Nicholas Papers]).
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Diary of Thomas Burton, II, 148–55; Acts and Ords., II, 1170–80; William Prynne, A True and Perfect Narrative (n.p., 1659), pp. 57–58.
H. Bowler (ed.), London Sessions Records (Catholic Record Society Publications, xxxiv, 1934), p. xlvi.
C.S.P., Ven., XXXI, 124–25; C. H. Firth, The Last Years of the Protectorate, 1656–1658 (London, 1909), II, 221–22.
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C. H. Firth, House of Lords during the Civil War (1910), pp. 234–35; Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, p. 3; C.C.S.P., III, 412. Cf.
M. A. E. Green (ed.), Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Advance of Money 1642–56, 3 vols. (1888), I, 105.
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D. Parsons (ed.), Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby (1836), pp. 352–54. Cf. the commissioners for Durham to the Protector, Feb. 16, 1656: “At present we have not, nor could not perfect the work, there being many men’s estates here so encumbered by reason they were forfeited to the commonwealth for treason, and purchased by several persons, as we suppose, in trust for the delinquents” (Thurloe, IV, 541).
Mercurius Politicus, No. 288 (Dec. 13–20, 1655), pp. 5829–30. The register of London visitors from Nov. 1655 to June 1656 is in British Museum Add. MS. 34,014. See also Alfred R. Bax, “Suspected Persons in Surrey during the Commonwealth,” Surrey Archaeological Collections, XIV (1899), 164–89.
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, ed. W. D. Macray, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1888), XV, 86.
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Hardacre, P.H. (1956). Cromwell and the Royalists. In: Roots, I. (eds) Cromwell. World Profiles. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01479-8_3
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