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 APPENDIX G 6oi storming of Bristol, lo Sep. 1645; received the thanks of Pari., and/,'ioo, for his services at Oxford and Woodstock, 26 Apr. 1646; Col. before 15 Sep. 1648; Gov. of Portsmouth, Mar. 1 648/9 ;(*) Major Gen. at battle of Worcester, 3 Sep. 1651. He was one of the Judges app. for the'King's trial, 6 Jan. 1 648/9, but refused to act. Commissionerof the Admiralty 28 July 1653; one of the Generals of the Fleet, Dec. 1653, being also a member of the Lord Protector's Council and a Commissioner of the Treasury;('') "Major-General of the Militia," for Gloucester, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, 28 May 1655. M.P. forco. Cambridge 12 July 1654; and for Somerset 1656-57. Councillor of State 29 Apr. to 4 July 1653, and 13 June to 31 Dec. 1657. Hewassum. to the " Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as "John Lord Disbrow," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords, and signed the proclamation in which he was declared Protector, 3 Sep. 1658, but joined the " Wal- lingford House " party and took a leading part in his deposition in Apr. 1659. Councillor of State 13 May to 25 Oct. 1659; Member of the Com- mittee of Safety 26 Oct. 1659; Gov. of Plymouth, in July, and Commissary Gen. of the Horse, 1 7 Oct. 1 659. At the Restoration he was arrested, while attempting to leave the kingdom, 21 May 1660; excepted from the Act of Indemnity, 13 June 1660; he afterwards escaped to Holland, but returning to England was again arrested, July 1666, and imprisoned in the Tower till 23 Feb. 1666/7, when he was set at liberty.('') He m., istly, 23 June 1636, at Eltisley afsd., Jane, 6th da. of Robert Cromwell, of Huntingdon, by Elizabeth, widow of William Lynne (who d. July 1589), da. of William Steward, of Ely, by his 2nd wife, Catherine, da. of Thomas Payne, of Castleacre. She (who was sister of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector) was bap. 19 Jan. 1605/6, d. 1657, and was bur. in Westminster Abbey, from which her remains were removed at the Restoration. He m., 2ndly, 25 Mar. 1 657/8, ('') Anne, da. of Sir Richard Everard, of wars; who, being allied to the protector by marriage of his sister, he cast away his spade and took a sword, and rose with him in the wars. . . His interest and great- ness being so far advanced, his merits must needs be great, and he every way fit to be put into the other house, for that with his sword he can set up that again in the protector and himself which before he cut down in the king and lords." {Second Narrative oj the late Parliament). (*) In Sir F. Madden's Hampshire Collections there is a receipt for ;^200 from " Collonell John Disbrowe Governo' and Captain of the Garrison of Portsmouth " to " Thomas Fauconberge Esq. Receive' Gen" of the Revenue." {Add. MS. 33278, f. 23). 1^) His income, derived from these various appointments, amounted to ^^3,236 per ann. if) "In Tower Street we saw Desbrough walking on foot: who is now no more a prisoner, and looks well, and just as he used to do heretofore." (Pepys' Diary, 17 Apr. 1 667). (^) William Swyft writes to Sir William Lockhart, I Apr. 1658: "I have delivered all the letters . . . except that to general Disbrowe, to whose present lodg- ing his servants in the Spring-garden could not direct me. His lordship was married 76