Excerpt from The Life of John Milton, Vol. 5: Narrated in Connexion With the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time Section III. Oliver and the First Session of his Second Parlia ment: Sept. 17, l656 - June 26, 1657. Second Parliament of the Protectorate called Vane's Healing Question and another anti-oliverian Pamphlet: Precautions and Arrests: Meeting of the Parliament: Its Composition Summary of Cromwell's Opening Speech Exclusion of Ninety-three anti-oliverian Members: Decidedly Oliverian Temper of the rest: Question of the Excluded Members: Their Protest: Summary of the Proceedings of the Parliament for Five Months (sept. 1656 Feb. 1656 Administration of Cromwell and his Council during those Months: Approaches to Disagreement between Cromwell and the Parliament in the Case of James Nagler and on the Question of Continuation of the Militia by Major Gencrals: No Rupture - The sexby-sindercombe Plot - Sir Christopher Pack's Motion for a New Constitution (feb. 23, 1656 - 7) Its Issue in the Petition and Advice and Offer of the Crown to Cromwell Division of Public Opinion on the King ship Question: Opposition among the Army Officers: Crom well's Neutral Attitude His Reception of the Offer His long Hesitations and several Speeches over the Afl'air: His Final Refusal (may 8, 1657) Ludlow's Story of the Cause - Harrison and the fifth-monarchy Men Venner's Outbreak at mile-end Green. - Proposed New Constitution of the Petition and Advice retained in the form of a Continued Protectorate Supplements to the Petition and Advice Bills assented to by the Protector, June 9 Votes for the Spanish Wan - Treaty Offensive and Defensive with France against Spain: Dispatch of English Auxiliary Army, under Reynolds, for Service in Flanders: Blake's Action in Santa Cruz Bay. Killing no Jliurder. Additional and Explanatory Petition and Advice Abstract of the Articles of the New Constitution as arranged by the two Documents: Cromwell's completed Assent to the New Consti tution, and his Assent to other Bills. June 26, 1657 Inaugura tion of the Second Protectorate that day: Close of the First Session of the Second Parliament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.