n the
9th of June, Fleetwood himself was solemnly presented with a signed
transcript of the Act appointing him Commander-in-Chief in England
and Scotland; and from that day, on through the rest of June, the
whole of July, and even into August and September, much of the
business of the House consisted in passing commissions to the
officers recommended, sometimes with a rejection or substitution, and
in seeing the officers come up in batches to the Speaker to receive
their commissions one by one, each with a lecture on his duty. As
each foot-regiment, consisting of ten companies, had its colonel, its
lieutenant-colonel, its major, and its quartermaster, with seven
captains besides, and twenty subalterns, and as each horse-regiment,
consisting of six troops, had its colonel, its major, four captains
besides, six lieutenants, six cornets, and six quartermasters, one
may guess the tediousness of this process of approving nominations
and delivering commissions. About 1200 persons had to be approved and
commissioned, or, if we throw in chaplains, surgeons, &c., about 1400
in all. Nevertheless, with certain arrangements for delivering
commissions to officers at a distance, the process was carried so far
that one can make out from the Journals of the House not only the
general plan of the Remodelling, but even the names of a large
proportion of the actually appointed officers. The essence of the
scheme was, of course, that all very pronounced Cromwellians,--e.g.
Falconbridge, Howard, Ingoldsby, Whalley, Barkstead, Goffe, and
Pride,--should be thrown out of their commands, and men of the right
stamp substituted. It is to be noticed also, however, that there were
to be now properly but two _Generals_, and that the highest
officers under these, whatever had been their previous designations,
were all, with a certain courtesy exception in favour of Lambert and
Monk, to rank on one level as merely _Colonels_. As far as to
these Colonels, the result was as follows:

I. ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.

_Commander-in-Chief_: LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, CHARLES FLEETWOOD.

I. FOR, SERVICE IN ENGLAND AND WALES: 1. _Colonels of Horse
Regiments_: John Lambert (with Richard Creed for his Major), John
Desborough, James Berry (with Unton Crooke for his Major), Robert
Lilburne, Francis Hacker, John Okey, William Packer (with John
Gladman for his Major), Nathaniel Rich, Thomas Saunders, and Herbert
Morley. 2. _Colonels of Foot-Regiments_: Lieutenant-General
F