cted in his stead. He was installed at
Whitehall, July 29. He was also made a Colonel, and at length he
was brought into the Council. The fact is thus minuted in the
Council's Books under date Dec. 31, 1657:--"The Lord Richard
Cromwell did this day take the oath of a Councillor, the same being
administered unto him by the Earl of Mulgrave and General
Desborough, in virtue of his Highness's Commission under the Great
Seal." He was immediately put on all Committees of the Council; and
generally after that, when he did attend, his name was put next
after the President's in the _sederunt_.

3. THE LORD HENRY CROMWELL: _aetat. 29_: in the Army since his
boyhood; Colonel since 1649; Major-General and chief Commander in
Ireland since the middle of 1655. At the beginning of the Second
Protectorate he was still in the Government of Ireland with his
military title only; but on the 24th of November 1657 he was sworn
into the full Lord Deputyship in succession to Fleetwood. He had
been married since 1653 to a daughter of Sir Francis Russell, of
Chippenham, Cambridgeshire.

4. THE LADY ELIZABETH: _aetat. 28_: married in her seventeenth
year to JOHN CLAYPOLE, ESQ., of a Northamptonshire family. He had
been made the Lord Protector's "Master of Horse," and had therefore
been known for some time by the courtesy-title of "Lord Claypole."
He had been in the Second Parliament of the Protectorate; and, as
Master of Horse, had figured prominently in the ceremonial of the
late Installation. Lord and Lady Claypole were established in the
household of the Lord Protector, at Whitehall, or at Hampton Court;
and Lady Claypole was a very favourite daughter.

5. THE LADY MARY: _aetat. 21_. She was unmarried when the
Second Protectorate began, though Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper is said
to have sought her hand, and to have turned against the Protector
on being refused it; but on the 18th of November 1657 she became
the second wife of THOMAS BELLASIS, VISCOUNT FALCONBRIBGE, one of
the old nobility. He was about thirty years of age, had been
abroad, had been sounded by Lockhart in Paris as to his
inclinations to the Protectorate, had given every satisfaction in
that matter, and had been certified by Lockhart to the Protector as
"a person of extraordinary parts." On his own account, and also
because he was of an old Royalist family, his marriage with Lady
Mary was thought an ex