[128] This was Henry Laurence, Lord President of the Council, member for Westmoreland in the Long Parliament, and for Colchester in the Parliament of 1656.
[129] Member for Bedfordshire in the Parliaments of 1654 and 1656.
[130] This was Major-General Lambert, called Lord Lambert, from his being the first president of the Protector's Privy Council. He was member for Yorkshire in 1654 and again in 1656.
[131] Member for Somersetshire in 1654 and in 1656.
For all these speeches see Cromwellian Diary, i. 62, 28, 33, 55.
[132] Ibid., 158.
[133] Carlyle, ii. 470.
[134] Carlyle, ii. 473.
[135] Cromwellian Diary, i. 359.
Mr. Gillespie is no doubt intended. The editor says:—"Notes were expressly prohibited by a direction in the Covenant." I do not find this to have been the case. Nothing is said upon the subject in the Directory.