He had accepted it, however, and meant to try it in all good faith.

If, on the one hand, it was more limited, on the other it was attended with more of grandeur and dignity.

Inasmuch as the actual Kingship had been offered him, and the new constitution was exactly that which would have gone with the Kingship, his Protectorship now, in the eyes of all the world, was equivalent to Kingship.

When inducted into his First Protectorship, stately though the ceremonial had been, he had worn but a black velvet suit, with a gold band round his hat, and the chief symbol of his investiture had been the removal of his own military sword and substitution of the civil sword presented to him by Lambert.

He had come into this Second Protectorship robed in purple, and holding a sceptre of massy gold.