and the King of Spain, and negotiating for a Spanish invasion of England.

In other words, he was Edward Sexby, once a stout trooper and agitator in the Parliamentarian army (Vol.III.p.

534), afterwards Captain and even Colonel in the same, but since then one of the fiercest Anabaptist malcontents.

He had been in the Wildman plot of Feb.

1654-5, but had then escaped abroad; and since then his occupation had been as described by Cromwell,--now in Flanders, now in Madrid, shuttling alliance between Spain and the Stuarts.