Now, to Cromwell, who had read the Tract, all this furnished excellent illustration of the kind he wanted.

Always frankly admitting that it might be said he had "griped at the government of the nations without a legal assent," he had never ceased to declare that this had been a sheer necessity for the nations themselves.

But the _Standard set up_ of the Fifth-Monarchy insurgents of Mile-End-Green had enabled him to return to the topic with reference specifically to the Barebones Parliament and the transition thence to the Protectorate.

That wild pamphlet, he had told his auditors, in Speech XII.

(April 20), was by one who had been "a leading person" in the Barebones Parliament (Harrison or Squib ?); and in Speech XIII.