[280] Taylor to Harrison, December 17, 1655 (wrongly placed among papers of 1654) in Thurloe, iii. 29; ib. iv. 260, 327; Clarke Papers, iii. 60; Ludlow, i. 406 sqq., with Mr. Firth’s notes for Ludlow’s proceedings. Fleetwood writes on January 3, 1654-5, ‘Here hath been some papers called mementoes spread up and down the army by that gentleman, who, I had hoped, my friendship would have prevented any such attempt,’ Thurloe, iii. 70.
[281] Correspondence between H. Cromwell and Thurloe from September 11, 1655, till January 22 following, in Thurloe, iv. 23, 40, 75, 198, 443. See Gardiner’s Commonwealth, iii. 452.
[282] Minutes of Irish Council, January 22, 1654-5 and March 27, Irish R.O. A/60. Rev. John Grace’s report, July 5, 1669, in Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 484 (Latin). See Gardiner’s Commonwealth, chaps. 40 and 44. A shipload was sent to St. Christophers from Kinsale, Robert Southwell to H. Cromwell, March 6, 1656-7, Lansdowne MSS., 821.
[283] Clarke Papers, iii. 49, 52; Rev. Thomas Harrison (Independent) to Thurloe, October 17, 1655, Thurloe, iv. 90; Vincent Gookin to the Protector (written in London), ib. November 22, 1656; Stubbs, Hist. of the University of Dublin, p. 90. Winter with two elders and forty-one other parishioners signed a letter to the Protector praising Henry warmly for his charity and justice and his countenance ‘to all that fear God though of different judgments,’ Milton State Papers, p. 137, June 3, 1656; Rev. R. Easthorp to H. Cromwell, June 11, 1657, Lansdowne MSS., p. 822.
[284] Ludlow, i. 360, 402, 415; Thurloe, iii. 70, 136, 710, 715, 744; iv. 73.
[285] Oliver Cromwell to Fleetwood, June 22, 1655, Carlyle, ii. 451; to Henry Cromwell, November 21, ib. 479; Henry Cromwell to Thurloe, September 19, 1655 (as to ‘Colonel Hewson with his three Anabaptist sons’), Thurloe, iv. 327; December 26, ib. 348; February 6 and April 2, 1655-6 (as to military Quakers), ib. 508, 672; and H. Ingoldsby’s letter from Limerick, March 29, 1657, Lansdowne MSS., p. 822; Thurloe to Henry Cromwell, January 1, ib. 573; Henry Cromwell to Thurloe (as to John Jones), March 12 and April 2, 1655-6, ib. 606, 672; same to same (for the field officers who resigned), December 3, 1666, ib. 670.
[286] The Act for convicting Popish Recusants, reciting the form of oath, in Scobell, ii. 443; Henry Cromwell to Thurloe, September 23, 1657, Thurloe, vi. 527; Dr. Henry Jones to same, September 30, ib. 539.
[287] Dr. Worth’s letter, October 31, 1656, Clarke Papers, iii. 77; H. Cromwell’s letters of November 5 and November 17, Thurloe, v. 558, 570, and Col. Moore’s to him, November 2, ib. 571. For the Royalist plots referred to, ib. 348, 422, 443.
[288] Scobell, ii. 424, 491; Henry Cromwell’s letters in vols. vi. and vii. of Thurloe, particularly that to the Protector of December 2, 1657, vi. 649; to Fleetwood, April 14, 1658, vii. 71; and to Thurloe, May 5, ib. 144. Broghill to Thurloe, December 11, 1657, ib. vi. 670. On April 27, 1658, Fleetwood wrote, ‘If we can get you 30,000l. by borrowing, it will be the most,’ ib. vii. 100.
[289] Henry Cromwell to Thurloe, March 24 and 31, 1658, and May 26 and June 23; Thurloe’s answer, July 13, Thurloe, vii. 21, 39, 145, 198, 269.