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The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660

CHAPTER I
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Thurloe's former subordinate, Mr.William Jessop, was now clerk to the Council of State.[3] [Footnote 1: A single folio fly-leaf, dated March 26 in the Thomason copy, and called "_The Grand Memorandum: A True and Perfect Catalogue of the Secluded Members of the House of Commons," &c._ It was printed by Husbands on the professed "command" of one of the members (Prynne ?).] [Footnote 2: The fly-leaf mentioned in last note gives the names of thirty-three Rumpers who did not sit in the House after the readmission of the secluded members.

Arranged alphabetically they were:--Anlaby, Bingham, John Carew, Cawley, James Challoner, Crompton, Darley, Fleetwood, John Goodwyn, Nicholas Gold, John Gurdon, Sir James Harrington, Hallows, Harvey, Heveningham, John Jones, Viscount Lisle, Livesey, Ludlow, Christopher Martin, Neville, Nicholas, Pigott, Pyne, Sir Francis Russell, the Earl of Salisbury, Algernon Sidney, Walter Strickland, Sir William Strickland, Wallop, Sir Thomas Walsingham, and Whitlocke.

Compare with the list of the Restored Rump, ante pp.

453-455.] [Footnote 3: Commons Journals of dates, and generally from Feb.

21 to March 16, 1659-60, with examination of the lists of all the Committees through that period; Ludlow, 845-846; Wood's Ath.IV.


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