7, and Godwin, IV, 130-132.] In the long course of the total debate perhaps the most interesting divisions had been one in Committee on October 16, and one in the House on November 10.

In the first the question was whether the Protectorship should be hereditary, and it had been carried by 200 votes to 60 that it should _not_.

This was not strictly an Anti-Oliverian demonstration; for, though Lambert was the mover for a hereditary Protectorship in Cromwell's family, many of the undoubted Oliverians voted in the majority, nor does there seem to be any proof that Lambert had acted by direct authority from Cromwell.

More distinctly an Anti-Oliverian vote had been that of Nov.

10, which was on a question of deep interest to Cromwell: viz.