6, 1656-7); Thomas Dickson, of York (March 3, 1656-7); Richard Stayner (June 11, 1657).] If there had been so much of sovereign and aristocratic form in the First Protectorate, there was a natural increase of such in the Second.

In the first place, the family of the Protector now lived in the reflection of that dignity of the purple which had been formally thrown round himself.

The Protector's very aged Mother having died in honour and peace at Whitehall, Nov.

16, 1654, blessing him with her last words[1], the family, in the Second Protectorate, was as follows:-- [Footnote 1: At "ninety-four years of age" according to a letter of Thurloe's the day after her death (Thurloe to Pell, Nov.

17, 1654, in Vaughan's _Protectorate_, I.79-81); but Colonel Chester (_Westminster Abbey Registers, 521, Note_) sees reason for believing she had been baptized at Ely, Oct.