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 APPENDIX G 589 with belonging To our trusty and welbeloved Sonne Lord Richard Crom- well." This is tollowed by a list of 61 other persons, to whom " the like writts were directed." The above writ is dated at Westminster, 9 Dec. 1657, and the others were scaled up and issued the following day.(*) A list of 58 of these " Lords " is given in Thurloe's State Papers, and similar (though not identical) lists are contained in Dugdale's Short l'iev> of the Late Troubles, Whitelocke's Memorials, and Parliamentary History, vol. xxi, p. 167. In the list compiled by the former Editor the names are arranged in alphabetical sequence, " the numbers which probably refer to the rank held in that 'House of Lords' being retained." As it is evident, from entries in the Journal, that strict attention was given to the ranking of the Lords who were present at each sitting — their precedence being apparently regulated by the order in which their original writs of summons had been issued — and as none of these printed lists correspond with that recorded in the Journal (which is the only authentic version), the present Editor has decided to include a literal transcript of the original roll of 62 members, while retaining the more convenient alphabetical arrangement as regards the biographical notices. An asterisk prefixed to a name denotes that the person so marked did not take his seat in the House.C) THE PROTECTORATE HOUSE OF LORDS 1. Lord Richard Cromwell. 2. *LoRD Henry Cromwell Deputy of Ireland. 3. Nathaniel Fiennes one of the Lords Com" of the Great Seale. 4. John Lisle one of the Lords Com" of the Great Seale. 5. Henry Lawrence Presid' of y° Privy Councell. 6. Charles Fleetwood Lew' Gen" of y' Army. 7. *Robert Earle of Warwick.. 8. *Edward Earle of Manchester. 9. *Edmond Earle of Mulgraue. 10. *Dauid('') Earle of Cassills. 1 1. ♦W™ Lord Visct. Say and Seals. 12. Tho. Lord Falconberge. 13. Charles Lord Visct. Howard. 14. Phillip Lo: Visct. Lisle. 1 5. S' Gtbt Pickering barronet Chamblen of his Highnes houshold. 16. George Lord Evers. 17. *Phillip Lord Wharton. (') Whitelocke writes, in his Memorials, 11 Dec. 1657: "I received a Writ of Summons under the Great Seal, to sit as one of the Members in the other House of Parh'ament; the form of the Writ was the same with those which were sent to summon the Peers in Parliament." C*) The names are not numbered in the Journal. (') This is a mistake for John (Kennedy), 6th Earl of Cassillis. The same error as to the Christian name occurs in Dugdale's list of members summoned to this House.