w Tomlinson, and Miles Corbet. Ludlow did not
go to Ireland till late in July or early in August; and he had
stipulated, in accepting the Irish command-in-chief, that he should
be at liberty to return to England on occasion.

Probably because Ludlow's recommendations from Ireland were waited
for, fewer commissions were actually issued for Ireland than for
England and Scotland. Ludlow himself, with Lambert and Monk, had the
distinction of a Colonelcy of Horse and one of Foot together; and
other Colonels appointed were Thomas Cooper, Richard Lawrence,
Alexander Brayfield, Thomas Sadler, and Henry Markham, for
Foot-Regiments, and Jerome Zanchy, Peter Wallis, and Daniel Axtell,
for Horse-Regiments. Sir Hardress Waller, Sir Charles Coote,
Theophilus Jones, and others to be heard of in Ludlow's memoirs, were
still on duty in their old Colonelcies when he arrived in Ireland.

In exactly the same way was the Navy to be brought within
Parliamentary grasp. John Lawson, an assured Commonwealth's man,
having been appointed Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief in the
narrow seas (to counterbalance the Cromwellian Montague), received
his commission from the Speaker's hands on the 8th of June; such
captains and other officers for Lawson's Fleet as were at hand
received their commissions in the same manner; and commissions signed
by the Speaker were sent out to the flag-officers, captains, and
lieutenants in Montague's Baltic Fleet.--More a matter of wonder
still was the re-organization of the Militia of the Cities and
Counties of all England and Wales. The regular Army could not but
remark the extreme attention of the Parliament to the recruiting and
re-officering of this vast civilian soldiery. A Bill for settling the
Militia, brought in on the 2nd of July, passed on the 26th; and from
that time there was a stream of Militia officers from the counties,
just as of the Regulars, to receive their commissions from the
Speaker. Old Skippon was re-appointed in his natural position as
Major-General of the Militia for the City of London (July 27) and
Commander-In-Chief of all the Forces within, the Weekly Bills (Aug.
2); and Lord Mayor John Ireton was one of the City Colonels.[1]

[Footnote 1: I have compiled these lists of names, with some labour,
from the Commons Journals of May-Sept. 1659, aided by references to
Ludlow's Memoirs and other authorities for some particulars. There
may be one or two omissions in the lists of actually appoin