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 585 APPENDIX G^"^ THE PROTECTORATE HOUSE OF LORDS, COMMONLY K.NOWN AS CROMWELL'S "OTHER HOUSE" 1657-1659. The first edition of Complete Peerage contained a list or the persons who were called to sit in the "Other House," based upon the account given in Noble's Protectorate House of Cromwell, and arranged in alphabetical order for convenience of reference. C") When this list was compiled {i.e. in 1889) the former Editor was not aware that the original MS. Journal or Minute Book of the Protectorate House of Lords was still in existence, being then in the possession of the late Sir Richard Tangj^-e. This contemporary record of a most interesting constitutional experiment has since been pub- lished in extenso.,{f) with an Introduction and notes by Mr. Cuthbert Headlam, one of the Officials of the House of Peers. The information contained therein has been extensively used in the preparation of this Appendix, and Professor C. H. Firth's House of Lords during the Civil War and other historical writings by the same author, dealing with the Common- wealth period, have also been freely drawn upon.('^) (*) This article has been kindly contributed by R. G. FitzGerald-Uniacke. The Introduction was written and the Biographies were partly compiled before the war, but military duties have rendered it impossible for him to complete and revise the work on the lines originally intended. {•>) See 1st Edition, vol. ii, pp. 84-89. ("=) Houit of Lords MSS., vol. iv (New Series), 1908. ("*) " The MS. Journal, which extends over the whole period of the existence of the ' Other House,' is written in several hands. It appears to be the draft of the Minutes of the proceedings in the House, such as was at that period, and still is, made by the Clerk at the Table, and from which the Journal of the House is afterwards compiled." (Mr. Headlam's Introduction, p. xlvi). J. H. Round claims to have identified a fragment of the original Journal of the Protectorate House of Lords as now in the possession of Charles Thomas-Stanford, Esq., M.P., Preston Manor, Brighton. This fragment consists of four folios of vellutn, measuring 16 ins. by 13 ins. each, and numbered 15-18. The first five and a half pages are occupied by a closely written verbatim report of the latter part of a speech 74