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 APPENDIX G 599 1656-57. First Lord of Trade and Navigation 11 Nov. 1655; Chancellor of the Univ. of Oxford 18 July 1657 to 16 May 1660. He was sum. to the "Other House," 9 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as "The Lord Richard Cromwell," 20 Jan. 1657/8. Member of the Lord Protector's Privy Council 31 Dec. 1657; nom. as his successor 31 Aug. 1658; acknowledged by the Council of State, and proclaimed throughout the three kingdoms as " rightful Protector of this Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging," 3 Sep. 1658. His title was recognized by Pari. 14 Feb. 1658/9. Having been induced by Fleetwood and Disbrowe to dissolve Pari., 22 Apr. 1659, he was soon afterwards deposed (") by the Army Council, who recalled the Long Parliament, 7 May, and issued a " Declara- tion " in favour of " a Commonwealth without a single person or a house of Lords." Richard's submission to the new government was notified to the House, 25 May 1659, after which he took no further part in public affairs. C") At the Restoration he retired to France; he was living at Paris, under the assumed name of "John Clarke," in 1666; and is said to have returned to England about i68o.() He lived for a time near Newmarket, and spent the rest of his life at Cheshunt, Herts, in the house of Serjeant Pengelly, where he died. He m., i May 1649, at Hursley, Hants, Dorothy, ist da. and coh. of Richard Mayor, of Merdon Manor in that parish,() by Anne, da. of John Kingswell, of Marvel Manor, Isle of Wight. She d. 5, and was bur. 6 Jan. 1675/6, at Hursley, aged 48. He d. at Cheshunt, 12, and was bur. 18 July 17 12, with his wife, in the chancel of Hursley Church, aged 85. (^) His brief Protectorate is thus satirized in Hudihras: " Next him his son and heir apparent Succeeded, tho' a lame vicegerent; Who first laid by the parliament, The only crutch on which he leant. And then sunk underneath the state That rode him above horseman's weight." (•>) The Army in Scotland appreciated his services: " Seing his late Highness hath been pleased to manifest so much self-denial and love to his country, in appearing for the Interest thereof against his own; we humbly intreat that some speedy care may be taken for him and his Family. . . that there may be such an honourable Provision settled upon them, and such other Dignities as are suitable to the former great Services of that Family to these Nations." (Address to Parliament, 17 May 1659. White- locke's Memorials, p. 679). (•=) In a letter addressed to his daughter, " Madam Ann Cromwell, att Hurs'ly near Winton, South'™,'' dated 18 Dec. 1690, he writes: " Deare, — Think not I forget you, though I confess I have been silent too long. ... I have been above 30'y years bannished and under silence and my strength and safty is to be retyred quiet and silent, we are foolish in taking our cause out of the hand of God . . . your truly loving father, R. C." {Eng. Hist. Review, 1898, p. 105). Ann Cromwell was m. at Hursley, 16 June 1698, to Dr. Thomas Gibson. C) Richard Cromwell lived at Merdon from 1649 to 1658, and his wife continued to reside there till her death in 1676.