[Footnote 1:  Palfrey’s Hist. of New England, II. 304-415, and especially 388-390.]

[Footnote 2:  Various minutes in Council Order Books from 1649 onwards; Carlyle, III, Appendix, 442-443.]

[Footnote 3:  Mills’s Colonial Constitutions (1856), 124-133, Introd.  XXXIV. et seq.; Carlyle, III. 124-133; Palfrey’s New England, II. 390-393.]

SECTION III.

OLIVER AND THE FIRST SESSION OP HIS SECOND PARLIAMENT:  SEPT. 17, 1656-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. 1656-7):  ADMINISTRATION
OF CROMWELL AND HIS COUNCIL DURING THOSE MONTHS:  APPROACHES TO
DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN CROMWELL AND THE PARLIAMENT IN THE CASE OF JAMES
NAYLER AND ON THE QUESTION OF CONTINUATION OF THE MILITIA BY
MAJOR-GENERALS:  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 KINGSHIP QUESTION: 
OPPOSITION AMONG THE ARMY OFFICERS:  CROMWELL’S NEUTRAL ATTITUDE:  HIS
RECEPTION OF THE OFFER:  HIS LONG HESITATIONS AND SEVERAL SPEECHES
OVER THE AFFAIR:  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 WAR,—­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 MURDER":  ADDITIONAL
AND EXPLANATORY PETITION AND ADVICE:  ABSTRACT OF THE ARTICLES OP THE
NEW CONSTITUTION AS ARRANGED BY THE TWO DOCUMENTS:  CROMWELL’S
COMPLETED ASSENT TO THE NEW CONSTITUTION, AND HIS ASSENT TO OTHER
BILLS, JUNE 26, 1657:  INAUGURATION OF THE SECOND PROTECTORATE THAT
DAY:  CLOSE OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SECOND PARLIAMENT.