Here are four of the stanzas:-- "Your drooping country, torn by civil hate, Restored by you, is made a glorious state, The seat of Empire, where the Irish come, And the unwilling Scots, to fetch their doom.
"The sea's our own; and now all nations greet, With bending sails, each vessel of our fleet; Your power extends as far as winds can blow, Or swelling sails upon the globe may go.
"Heaven, that hath placed this Island to give law To balance Europe and its states to awe, In this conjunction doth on Britain smile,-- The greatest Leader and the greatest Isle ....
"Had you some ages past this race of glory Run, with amazement we should read your story; But living virtue, all achievements past, Meets envy still to grapple with at last."[1] [Footnote 1: Waller's Poems: date of this from Thomason's Catalogue.] Waller's verses, if nothing else, would suggest that we ought to know something more, at this point, of the state of Scotland, Ireland, and even the Colonies, under Cromwell's Protectorate.
SCOTLAND.
After August 1654, when the Glencairn-Middleton insurrection had been suppressed (Vol.

IV, p.

532), the administration of Scotland had been again for some time wholly in the hands of Monk, as the Commander-in-chief there, with assistance from the four resident English Judges and minor officials.

Cromwell and his Council in London, however, had been thinking of a more regular method for the Government of Scotland; and, at length, in the end of July 1655, the following was the arrangement: I.CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT.
COUNCIL, SITTING IN EDINBURGH.
_President of Council_ (L2000 a year): Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill.
General Monk.
Major-General Charles Howard.
Colonel Adrian Scroope.
Colonel Cooper.
Colonel Nathaniel Whetham.
Colonel William Lockhart (soon afterwards Sir William, and Ambassador to France).
John Swinton, Laird of Swinton (afterwards Sir John).
Samuel Desborough, Esq.

(brother of the Regicide).
_Chief Clerk to the Council_ (L300 a year): Emanuel Downing.
SUPREME COMMISSIONERS OF JUSTICE (in lieu of the Old Scotch Court of Session):--This was a body of Seven Judges; four of whom were English--George Smith, Edward Moseley, William Lawrence, and Henry Goodyere (the last two in the places of two of the original four of 1652),--but three of them native Scots, accustomed to Scottish law and practice.