mbe (Aug. 1656); Lord Mayor Dethicke and George Fleetwood,
Esq. of Bucks (both Sept. 15, 1656); Ambassador Lockhart, Lord Mayor
Robert Tichbourne, Sheriff James Calthorpe, and Lislebone Long, Esq.,
Recorder of London (all Dec. 10, 1656); Colonel James Whitlocke, a
son of Bulstrode Whitlocke (Jan. 6, 1656-7); Thomas Dickson, of York
(March 3, 1656-7); Richard Stayner (June 11, 1657).]

If there had been so much of sovereign and aristocratic form in the
First Protectorate, there was a natural increase of such in the
Second. In the first place, the family of the Protector now lived in
the reflection of that dignity of the purple which had been formally
thrown round himself. The Protector's very aged Mother having died in
honour and peace at Whitehall, Nov. 16, 1654, blessing him with her
last words[1], the family, in the Second Protectorate, was as
follows:--

[Footnote 1: At "ninety-four years of age" according to a letter of
Thurloe's the day after her death (Thurloe to Pell, Nov. 17, 1654, in
Vaughan's _Protectorate_, I. 79-81); but Colonel Chester
(_Westminster Abbey Registers, 521, Note_) sees reason for
believing she had been baptized at Ely, Oct. 28, 1565, and was
therefore only in her ninetieth year at her death.]

HIS HIGHNESS, OLIVER, LORD PROTECTOR: _aetat. 58._

HER HIGHNESS, ELIZABETH, LADY PROTECTRESS.

Children and Children-in-Law.

1. THE LADY BRIDGET: _aetat. 33_: Ireton's widow, married to
Fleetwood since 1652. FLEETWOOD, though he had been recalled from
Ireland in the middle of 1655, and had been in London since then,
retained his nominal Lord-Deputyship till Nov. 1657.

2. THE LORD RICHARD CROMWELL: _aetat._ 31: married since 1649
to DOROTHY MAYOR, daughter of Richard Mayor, Esq., of Hursley,
Hants, who had been member for Hants in the Long Parliament, a
fellow-Colonel with Cromwell in the Civil War, and afterwards in
some of the Councils of the Commonwealth, in the Little Parliament,
and in the Council of the Protectorate.--Though Lord Richard's
tastes were all for a quiet country-life, with "hawking, hunting,
and horse-racing," he had been in both the Parliaments of the
Protectorate, and had taken some little part in the Second. His
father now brought him more forward. On the 3rd of July, 1657, when
the Second Protectorate was but a week old, the Lord Protector
resigned his Chancellorship of the University of Oxford; and on the
18th Lord Richard was ele