304-415, and especially 388-390.] [Footnote 2: Various minutes in Council Order Books from 1649 onwards; Carlyle, III, Appendix, 442-443.] [Footnote 3: Mills's _Colonial Constitutions_ (1856), 124-133, Introd.XXXIV.et seq.; Carlyle, III.

124-133; Palfrey's _New England_, II.

390-393.] SECTION III.
OLIVER AND THE FIRST SESSION OP HIS SECOND PARLIAMENT: SEPT.

17, 1656-JUNE 26, 1657.
SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE PROTECTORATE CALLED: VANE'S _HEALING QUESTION_ AND ANOTHER ANTI-OLIVERIAN PAMPHLET: PRECAUTIONS AND ARRESTS: MEETING OF THE PARLIAMENT: ITS COMPOSITION: SUMMARY OF CROMWELL'S OPENING SPEECH: EXCLUSION OF NINETY-THREE ANTI-OLIVERIAN MEMBERS: DECIDEDLY OLIVERIAN TEMPER OF THE REST: QUESTION OF THE EXCLUDED MEMBERS: THEIR PROTEST: SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENT FOR FIVE MONTHS (SEPT.

1656-FEB.