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 598 APPENDIX G 9 Sep. 1647 and 14 Apr. 1648; Col. of a regt. of Foot in the Pari, army, 24 Apr. 1 65 1. He served under Cromwell in Scotland the same yearjC) and was afterwards sent into Ireland, where he was Major Gen. of the North, and Gov. of Carrickfergus. M.P. for Down, Antrim, and Armagh 1656-57. C") Councillor for Scotland 30 Mar. 1655, and for Ireland 27 Nov. 1656; Commissioner of Militiafor N. Wales 26 July 1659. He was sum. to the " Other House," 10 Dec. 1 657, (') and took his seat, as " Thomas Lord Cooper," 20 Jan. 1 657/8 ; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords, and signed the proclamation inwhichhewas declared Protector, 3 Sep. 1658. He was in Dublin 14 Sep. 1659. CREW [44] John Crew,('^) s. and h. of Sir Thomas C, of Stene, Northants. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, but never took his seat.(') For fuller particulars see " Crew," Barony, cr. 1 66 1 . CROMWELL [i] Richard Cromwell,(') 3rd but ist surv. s. of Oliver C, the Lord Protector, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir James Bourchier, of London, and of Felstead, Essex. He was b. 4 Oct. 1626, at Huntingdon; ed. at Felstead grammar school; admitted Lincoln's Inn 27 May 1647; Hon. M.A., Oxford, 29 July 1657. Col. of a regt. of Horse in the Pari. army.(«) M.P. for Southants 1654; and for the Univ. of Cambridge (^) " The army, then in Scotland, sending into England for faithful praying men, to make officers of, the honest people in the Borough recommended him to the general, in order to have a command; was made a colonel at the first dash, and, though he began late, yet hath so well improved his interest that he hath already gotten as many hundreds per annum as he had hundred pounds when he left his trade." [Second Narrative of the late Parliament). C") Noble states that he was "originally an 'haberdasher of small wares ' in, and an alderman of, the city of Oxford ; " but the Thomas Cooper, draper, who was Mayor of Oxford in 1630 and M.P. in 1 640, was ^z/r. at St. Martin's, Oxford, 13 Aug. 164O. His will (in which no children are mentioned) dat. 5 Aug., pr. 10 Oct. 1 640. (P.C.C., 133 Coventry). {^) He wrote to Secretary Thurloe, from Carrickfergus, 26 Dec. 1657: "As for being one of that other house, I, that should know myselfe best, doe indeed without complement think myselfe veary unfit for that soe great imployment, and should rejoyce to see a person more fit appointed." (*) He bore for arms: Azure a lion Silver, with a crescent in chief. (f) When the House was called over, 2 Feb. 1657/8, he was one of the eleven " Lords " who " being called Did not appeare nor any excuse made for them." See Introduction to this Appendix, p. 591. (*) He bore for arms: Sable a lion Silver. (e) "A person of great worth and merit, well skilled in hawking, hunting, horse-racing, with other sports and pastimes. . . . Though he was not judged meet to have a command in the army when there was fighting, yet is he become a colonel of horse now fighting is over." {Second Narrative of the late Parliament). Mrs. Hutchinson writes: "Richard was a peasant in his nature, yet gentle and virtuous, but became not greatness. His court was full of sin and vanity." [Memoirs of Col. Hutchinson, 1900 edit., p. 298).