stricts had been all marked out and the
Major-Generals chosen in August. But there had been very great
secrecy about the scheme; and not till the 31st of October was there
official announcement of the new organization. Only about mid-winter,
1655-6, did people fully realise what it meant. The Major-Generalcies
then stood thus:--

[Footnote 1: Speech V. (Carlyle, III. 176).]

Person. District.

1. MAJOR-GENERAL PHILIP SKIPPON. _London._

2. MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN BARKSTEAD. _Westminster and Middlesex._

3. MAJOR-GENERAL THOMAS KELSEY. _Kent and Surrey._

4. MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM GOFFE. _Sussex, Hants, and Berks._

5. FLEETWOOD (with MAJOR-GENERAL _Oxford, Bucks, Herts,_
HEZEKIAH HAYNES as his deputy). _Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex,_
_and Cambridge._

6. MAJOR-GENERAL EDWARD WHALLEY. _Lincoln, Notts, Derby,_
_Warwick, and Leicester._

7. MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM BUTLER. _Northampton, Bedford,_
_Hunts, and Rutland._

8. MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES WORSLEY _Chester, Lancaster, and_
(succeeded by MAJOR-GENERAL _Stafford._
TOBIAS BRIDGES).

9. LAMBERT (with MAJOR-GENERAL _York, Durham, Cumberland_
ROBERT TILBURNE and MAJOR-GENERAL _Westmorland,_
CHARLES HOWARD as his deputies). _and Northumberland._

10. MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN DESBOROUGH. _Gloucester, Wilts, Dorset,_
_Somerset, Devon, and_
_Cornwall._

11. MAJOR-GENERAL JAMES BERRY. _Worcester, Hereford, Salop,_
_and North Wales._

12. MAJOR-GENERAL DAWKINS. _Monmouthshire and_
_South Wales._[1]

[Footnote 1: Council Order Books, as digested by Godwin, IV. 228-229.]

The powers intrusted to these Major-Generals and to their subordinate
officers in the several counties were all but universal. They were to
patrol the counties with horse and foot, but especially with horse.
They were to guard against robberies and tumults and to bring
criminals to punishment. They were to take charge of the public
morals, and see the laws put in force against drunkenness, blasphemy,
plays and interludes, profanation of the Lord's Day