21, 1659-60.] A new Council of State was, of course, appointed at once.

It was to consist, as before, of _twenty-one_ Parliamentaries and _ten_ non-Parliamentaries, and to hold office from Jan.

1, 1659-60 to April 1, 1660.

The following is the list, the order in each section being that of preference as shown by the numbers of votes obtained in the ballot, and the asterisk again denoting a Regicide.
PARLIAMENTARIES.
Sir Arthur Hasilrig, Bart.
Colonel Herbert Morley Robert Wallop *Colonel Valentine Walton *Thomas Scott Nicholas Love Chief Justice St.John Colonel William White John Weaver Robert Reynolds Sir James Harrington Sir Thomas Widdrington Colonel George Thompson *John Dixwell Henry Neville Colonel John Fagg John Corbet *Thomas Challoner *Henry Marten *William Say Luke Robinson (a tie between him and Carew Raleigh, decided by lot).
NON-PARLIAMENTARIES.
Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Bart.

(appointed before his election as M.P.) Josiah Berners General Monk Vice-Admiral Lawson Alderman Love Thomas Tyrrell Lord Fairfax Alderman Foote Robert Rolle Slingsby Bethell.[1] [Footnote 1: Commons Journals, Dec.