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SPEECH I. Opening of the Little Parliament, 4th July 1653.

Retrospective: aim of all these Wars and Struggles; chief
events of them; especially dismissal of the Long Parlia-
ment. Prospective: dayspring of divine Prophecy and
Hope, to be struggled towards, though with difficulty.
Demits his authority into their hands.

LETTER CLXXXIX. To Lieut.-Gen. Fleetwood: Cockpit, 22d August

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Complains: heart-weary of the strife of Parties: Moses and

the Two Hebrews.

CXC. To Committee of Customs: Cockpit, October 1653
In remonstrance for a poor Suitor to them.

CXCI. To H. Weston, Esq.: London, 16th November 1653

Excuse for an Oversight: Speldhurst Living.

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SPEECH V. Meeting of the Second Protectorate Parliament, 17th Sep-
tember 1656.
Our difficulties: Spain, and why we have gone to war with
Spain; Papists, Cavaliers, Levellers, Fifth-Monarchists;
-the need there was of Major-Generals. Our remedies:
To prosecute the War with vigour; to maintain steadily
the aim of all these struggles, Liberty of Conscience and
a pure Gospel Ministry; to reform the Law:-to reform
Manners; that will be the grand remedy of all. Finance.
Exhortation; Divine encouragement and hope: Eighty-
fifth Psalm.

OLIVER CROMWELL'S LETTERS AND SPEECHES

PART V (continued)

CAMPAIGN IN IRELAND

1650

DECLARATION

OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND, FOR THE UNDECEIVING OF DELUDED PEOPLE

HERE is a kind of Epistle General, in a quite other tone, intended to give 'satisfaction' to a quite other class, if they are capable of it.

The Supreme Council of Kilkenny,' still more the Occult Irish Hierarchy' which was a main element thereof, remains, and is like to remain, a very dark entity in History: little other, after all one's reading, than a featureless gaunt shadow; extinct, and the emblem to us of huge noises that are also extinct. History can know that it had features once :-of fierce dark-visaged Irish Noblemen and Gentlemen; dark-visaged Abbases O'Teague, and an Occult Papist Hierarchy; earnestly planning, perorating, excommunicating, in a high Irish tone of voice: alas, with general result which Nature found untrue. Let there be noble pity for them in the hearts of the noble. Alas, there was withal some glow of real Irish Patriotism, some light of real human valour, in those old hearts: but it had parted company with Fact; came forth enveloped in such huge embodiment of headlong ferocity, of violence, hatred, noise, and general unveracity and incoherency, as--as brought a Cromwell upon it at last! These reflections might lead us far.

What we have to say here is, that in the present expiring conVOL. II.-1

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