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term of imprisonment.

p. 343 _Duckingfield._ Robert Duckenfield (1619-89), a strong
Parliamentarian, but one who refused to assist at the King's trial.
He had large estates in Cheshire, where he lived retired after a
short imprisonment at the Restoration. His son Robert, who succeeded
him, was subsequently created a baronet by Charles II, 16 June,
1665.

p. 343 _Corbet._ Although this name is here given as Corbet, Colonel
Cobbet occurs Act i, II (p. 355), and we have Cobbet again Act iii,
I (p. 374). This character is certainly not Miles Corbet the
regicide, but Ralph Cobbet, who was both a colonel and a member of
the Committee of Safety. Ralph Cobbet is frequently alluded to in
the satires of the time, e.g. _The Gang; or, The Nine Worthies and
Champions_ (17 January, 1659-60):--

A man of stomack in the next deal,
With a hey down, &c.
Was hungry Colonel Cobbet;
He would eat at a meale
A whole commonweale,
And make a joint but a gobbet.

p. 343 _Whitlock._ Bulstrode Whitelock (1605-75), keeper of the
Great Seal, and in August, 1659, president of the Council of State,
was always inclined to royalism, and even advised Cromwell to
restore Charles II. At the Restoration he was allowed to retire to
Chilton Park, Hungerford, Wilts, and died there 28 July, 1675.
According to some accounts his death took place at Fawley, Bucks.

p. 343 _Lady Lambert._ Lady Lambert was Frances, daughter of Sir
William Lister, knight, of Thornton in Craven, Yorks. She was
married 10 September, 1639. Contemporaries attribute Lambert's
ambition to the influence of his wife, whose pride is frequently
alluded to. e.g. _Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson_, edited by C.
H. Firth (Nimmo, 1885), Vol. II, p. 189, 'There went a story that as
my Lady Ireton was walking in St. James' Park the Lady Lambert, as
proud as her husband, came by where she was, and as the present
princess always has precedency of the relict of the dead prince, so
she put my Lady Ireton below; who, notwithstanding her piety and
humility, was a little grieved at the affront.'

p. 343 _Lady Desbro._ Desborough's second wife, whom he married
April, 1658, is said, on the dubious authority of Betham, to have
been Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Everard, Bart., of Much Waltham.
Mrs. Behn's amorous lady, Maria, is, of course, purely fictional.

p. 343 _Lady Fleetwood._ Bridget, elde