nto the Long Parliament in 1640
as member for Radnorshire; he had gone with the King in the beginning
of the Civil War; but he had afterwards done good service for the
Parliament in Ireland during the Rebellion, and had at length
conformed to the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. While the
Protectorate lasted he had been really a Cromwellian; but, like so
many other Cromwellians, he was now a half-declared Royalist. He had
been one of the chief negotiators with Monk for the re-seating of the
Secluded, and he took at once a foremost place among them, both in
the House and in the Council. He was now about forty-fire years of
age.--An accession to the House, after it had sat for a week or more,
was Mr. William Morrice. He was a Devonshire man, like Monk, to whom
he was related by marriage. He had been sent into the Long Parliament
in 1645 as Recruiter for Devonshire, and had been afterwards
secluded; and he had been returned to Oliver's two Parliaments and to
Richard's. Living in Devonshire as a squire "of fair estate," he had
acquired the character of an able and bookish man of enlightened
Presbyterian principles; he had been of use to Monk in the management
of his Devonshire property; there had been constant correspondence
between them; and there was no one for whom Monk had a greater
regard. Now, accordingly, at the age of about five and fifty, Morrice
had left his books and come from Devonshire to London at Monk's
request, not only to take his place in Parliament, but also to be a
kind of private adviser and secretary to Monk, more in his intimacy
than even Dr. Clarges.--To complete this view of the composition of
the new Government, we may add that on Feb. 24 Thomas St. Nicholas
was made Clerk of the Parliament, and that on the 27th the House
appointed Thurloe and a John Thompson to be joint-secretaries of
State. There was a division on Thurloe's appointment, but it was
carried by sixty-five votes to thirty-eight. The tellers against
Thurloe were Annesley and Sir William Waller, but he was supported by
Sir John Evelyn of Wilts and Colonel Hutchinson. Thurloe's former
subordinate, Mr. William Jessop, was now clerk to the Council of
State.[3]

[Footnote 1: A single folio fly-leaf, dated March 26 in the Thomason
copy, and called "_The Grand Memorandum: A True and Perfect
Catalogue of the Secluded Members of the House of Commons," &c._
It was printed by Husbands on the professed "command" of one of the
members (Prynne?