coup d’etat]; who was pleased immediately after to revive this motion to the Council of State [Cromwell’s Interim Council of Thirteen], and they to refer it to Mr. Carew [one of the Thirteen].  Since which time I have given my daily attendance at Whitehall, expecting the event of the business.”  He ends by soliciting Pickering, as he had solicited Milton some months before, to bring the matter to some such conclusion as might reimburse him for his journey to Scotland and all his care and pains there at his own charge.  From a note appended to the Statement, it appears that the whole business was referred by Cromwell’s Interim Council to a Committee; but, as we have found Sandelands still in distress and in want of employment as late as April 1654 (Vol.  V. p. 227), his renewed application can have had but small success.

End of Volume V