He permitted no church assemblies; being sensible that from thence had proceeded many of the past disorders.

And in the main, the Scots were obliged to acknowledge, that never before, while they enjoyed their irregular, factious liberty, had they attained so much happiness as at present, when reduced to subjection under a foreign nation.
* Whitlocke, p.

570.
** Thurloe, vol.iv.p.

57.
*** Thurloe, vol.vi.p.

557.
The protector's administration of Ireland was more severe and violent.
The government of that island was first intrusted to Fleetwood, a notorious fanatic, who had married Ireton's widow; then to Henry Cromwell, second son of the protector, a young man of an amiable, mild disposition, and not destitute of vigor and capacity.