Oliver and the First Session of his Second Parliament: Sept.

17, 1656-June 26, 1657 .-- Second Parliament of the Protectorate called: Vane's _Healing Question_ and another Anti-Oliverian Pamphlet: Precautions and Arrests: Meeting of the Parliament: Its Composition: Summary of Cromwell's Opening Speech: Exclusion of Ninety-three Anti-Oliverian Members: Decidedly Oliverian Temper of the rest: Question of the Excluded Members: Their Protest: Summary of the Proceedings of the Parliament for Five Months (Sept.
1656-Feb.

1656-7): Administration of Cromwell and his Council during those Months: Approaches to Disagreement between Cromwell and the Parliament in the _Case of James Nayler_ and on the Question of Continuation of the Militia by Major-Generals: No Rupture .-- The Soxby-Sindercombe Plot .-- Sir Christopher Pack's Motion for a New Constitution (Feb.

23, 1656-7): Its Issue in the _Petition and Advice_ and Offer of the Crown to Cromwell: Division of Public Opinion on the Kingship Question: Opposition among the Army Officers: Cromwell's Neutral Attitude: His Reception of the Offer: His long Hesitations and several Speeches over the Affair: His Final Refusal (May 8, 1657): Ludlow's Story of the Cause .-- Harrison and the Fifth Monarchy Men: Venner's Outbreak at Mile-End-Green .-- Proposed New Constitution of the _Petition and Advice_ retained in the form of a Continued Protectorate: Supplements to the _Petition and Advice_: Bills assented to by the Protector, June 9: Votes for the Spanish War .-- Treaty Offensive and Defensive with France against Spain: Dispatch of English Auxiliary Army, under Reynolds, for Service in Flanders: Blake's Action in Santa Cruz Bay.--"_Killing no Murder_": _Additional and Explanatory Petition and Advice_: Abstract of the Articles of the New Constitution as arranged by the two Documents: Cromwell's completed Assent to the New Constitution, and his Assent to other Bills.

June 26, 1657: Inauguration of the Second Protectorate that day: Close of the First Session of the Second Parliament.
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