claration was 'ignoramus'. cf. Dryden's prologue to _The
Duke of Guise_ (1682):--

Let ignoramus juries find no traitors,

and other innumerable references to this verdict.

+Dramatis Personae+

p. 343 _Fleetwood._ Lieutenant-General Charles Fleetwood was
son-in-law to Oliver Cromwell, and for a time Lord-Deputy of
Ireland. He was mainly instrumental in the resignation of Richard
Cromwell, but so weak and vacillating that he lost favour with all
parties. His name was excepted from the general amnesty, and it was
only with great difficulty that, owing to the influence of Lord
Litchfield, he escaped with his life. He died in obscurity at Stoke
Newington, 4 October, 1692.

p. 343 _Lambert._ Major-General Lambert (1619-83) lost his
commissions owing to the jealousy of Oliver Cromwell, on whose death
he privily opposed Richard Cromwell. In August, 1659, he defeated
the Royalist forces under Sir George Booth in Cheshire, but
subsequently his army deserted. On his return to London he was
arrested (5 March, 1660), by the Parliament, but escaped. Tried for
high treason at the Restoration, he was banished to Guernsey, where
he died in the winter of 1683.

p. 343 _Wariston._ Archibald Johnston, Lord Wariston, a fierce
fanatic, was parliamentary commissioner for the administration of
justice in Scotland and a member of Cromwell's House of Peers. On
the revival of the Rump he became president of the Council of State,
and permanent president of the Committee of Safety. At the
Restoration he fled, but was brought back from Rouen to be hanged at
the Market Cross, Edinburgh, 23 July, 1663. Carlyle dubs him a
'lynx-eyed lawyer and austere presbyterian zealot', and Burnet says,
'Presbyterianism was more to him than all the world.'

p. 343 _Hewson._ John Hewson, regicide, a shoemaker, was a commander
under Cromwell, and afterwards a peer in the Upper House. At the
Restoration he escaped to the Continent and died in exile at
Amsterdam, 1662, or, by another account, at Rouen.

p. 343 _Desbro._ John Desborough, Desborow, or Disbrowe (1608-80)
was Cromwell's brother-in-law. Being left a widower, he married
again April, 1658. As he had refused to sit as a judge at the trial
of Charles I, he was not exempted from the amnesty; but being
considered a source of danger, he was, after the Restoration,
'always watched with peculiar jealousy,' and suffered some shor