asilrig.
*Sir John Hobart.
*Sir Gilbert Pickering (_Councillor and Chamberlain to the
Household_).
*Sir Francis Russell (_Henry Cromwell's father-in-law_).
*Sir William Strickland.
*Sir Charles Wolseley (_Councillor_).

Knights.

*Sir John Barkstead (knighted by Cromwell Jan, 19, 1655-6).
Sir George Fleetwood (knighted by Cromwell Sept. 15, 1656).
*Sir John Hewson (_Colonel_, knighted by Cromwell
Dec. 5, 1657).
*Sir Thomas Honeywood.
Sir Archibald Johnstone of Warriston (Scotch).
Sir William Lockhart (_Ambassador_, knighted by Cromwell
Dec. 10, 1656).
*Sir Christopher Pack (_Alderman_, knighted by Cromwell
Sept. 20, 1656).
*Sir Richard Onslow.
*Sir Thomas Pride (Colonel Pride, knighted by Cromwell
Jan, 17, 1655-6).
*Sir William Roberts.
*Sir Robert Tichbourne (_Alderman_, knighted by Cromwell
Dec. 10, 1656).
Sir Matthew Tomlinson (_Colonel_, knighted in Dublin by Lord
Henry Cromwell. Nov. 25, 1657).

Others.

*James Berry (_the Major-General_).
John Clerke (_Colonel_).
*Thomas Cooper (_Colonel_).
John Crewe.
*John Fiennes.
*William Goffe (_the Major-General_).
*Richard Ingoldsby (_Cousin's son and Colonel_).
*John Jones (_brother-in-law and Colonel_).
*Philip Jones (_Councillor and Colonel_, and now "_Comptroller
of our Household_").
*Richard Hampden (son of the great Hampden).
William Pierrepoint.
Alexander Popham.
*Francis Rous (_Councillor and Provost of Eton_).
*Philip Skippon (_Councillor and Major-General_).
*Walter Strickland (_Councillor_).
*Edmund Thomas.[1]

[Footnote 1: In compiling the list I have used the enumerations in
Parl. Hist. III. 1518-1519, Whitlocke, IV. 313-314, and Godwin. IV.
469-471 (the last two not perfect): also a Pamphlet of April 1659
called _A Second Narrative of the Late Parliament_.]

Such were "Oliver's Peers or Lords," remembered by that name now, and
so called at the time, not because they were Peers or Lords in the
old sense, but because they were to be members of that "Other House"
which, by Article V. of the _Petition and Advice_, was to
exercise some of the functions of the old House of Lords. The
selection was various enough, and probably as good as could be made;
but there must have been great doubts as to the result. Would those
of the old English hereditary nobility whom it had been deemed
politic to summon condescend to sit as fellow-