OLIVER CROMWELL'S

LETTERS AND SPEECHES:

INCLUDING

THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.

With Elucidations.

BY THOMAS CARLYLE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:

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LETTER CXXV. To Rev. J. Cotton: London, 2 Oct., 1651

Reflections on Public Affairs: what Prophecies are now

fulfilling.

CXXVI. To Mr. Hungerford: London, 30 July,

1652

Note on Private Business.

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CXXVII. To Mr. Parker: Whitehall, 23 April, 1653 30

SPEECH I. Opening of the Little Parliament, 14 July, 1653. 34

Retrospective aim of all these Wars and Struggles;

chief events of them; especially dismissal of the Long
Parliament. Prospective: dayspring of divine Prophecy
and Hope, to be struggled towards, though with difficulty.
Demits his authority into their hands.

LETTER CXXVIII. To Committee of Customs: Whitehall,

In remonstrance for a poor Suitor to them.

CXXIX. To H. Weston, Esq.: Whitehall, 16 Nov.,

1653

Excuse for an oversight: Speldhurst Living.

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PART VIII.

FIRST PROTECTORATE PARLIAMENT. 1654.

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LETTER CXXX. To R. Mayor, Esq.: Whitehall, 4 May, 1654 77

Dare not undertake the Purchase recommended.

CXXXI. To Lord Fleetwood: Whitehall, 16 May,

CXXXII. To Col. Alured: Whitehall, 16 May, 1654 80

Official Order to the Colonel.

CXXXIII. To Sir T. Rymer: Whitehall, 5 July,

1654

A City Preacher.

SPEECH II. Meeting of the First Protectorate Parliament, 4

Sept., 1654.

ness.

Goodwin's Sermon, On the Deliverance out of Egypt,
and Pilgrimage towards Canaan through the Wilder-
Our difficulties: Antichrist; Levellers, Fifth-Mo-
narchists, Jesuits. Our attainments: Some Reform of
Law; Reform of Church; Peace, with almost all Nations.
Finance; necessity of Concord.

SPEECH III. To the same Parliament, 12 Sept., 1654.

Cannot have the Foundations of Government submitted

to debate in this Assembly. A free Parliament they; but
he also, in virtue of whom they sit, must be an unques-
tioned Protector. His history since he entered on these
Public Struggles: Dismissal of the Long Parliament; Ab-
dication of the Little Parliament; Protectorship, on what
founded, by whom acknowledged. To proceed no farther,
till they acknowledge it.

LETTER CXXXIV. To R. Bennet, Esq.: Whitehall, 12 Jan.,

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Virginia and Maryland.

CXXXV. To Captain Crook: Whitehall, 20 Jan.,

1654-5.

To watch Adjutant-Gen. Allen.

SPEECH IV. Dissolution of the First Protectorate Parliament,

22 Jan., 1654-5

Regrets that they have not communicated with him: he

was not unconcerned with them; has been struggling and

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