May God long preserve your Majesty as a pillar and defence of the Protestant cause .-- WILLIAM LENTHALL, _Speaker of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England_." (CXLIX) To FREDERICK III., KING OF DENMARK, _May_ 15, 1659:--The counterpart of the foregoing.

His Danish Majesty, addressed as "most serene King and very dear Friend" is informed by Lenthall of the change in English affairs, and of the sympathy the present English Government feels with him in his adversity.

They will do their utmost to secure a peace between him and the King of Sweden; and Philip Meadows, their Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Sweden, has full powers to treat with his Danish Majesty too for that end.

"God grant to your Majesty, as soon as possible, a happy and joyful outcome from all those difficulties of your affairs in which you behave so bravely and magnanimously!" On the 25th of May Richard sent in his reluctant abdication, leaving the Rump, which had already assumed the supreme authority, to exercise that authority without further challenge or opposition on his part.

Most of the public officials remained in their posts, and Milton remained In his.