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Thurloe, Broghill, Fiennes, and Wolseley maintained, on the contrary, that the dissension between the parliament and the army was irreconcilable; and that on the first shock between them, the Cavaliers would rise simultaneously in the Burton's Diary, iv. 448-463, 472-480. cause of Charles Stuart.
In its place the council of war would "call to the government persons of approved fidelity and honesty;" and therefore required "public officers and ministers to proceed in their respective places," and conjured "those who feared and loved the name of the Lord, to be instant with him day and night in their behalf." Thurloe, i. 289, 395.
By the original plan devised at Hampton Court, it had been arranged that the entrance of the Scots into England should be the signal for a simultaneous rising of the royalists in every quarter of the kingdom. He refused to resign his military appointment at the command of Fairfax, and, to justify Thurloe, i. 94. Rushworth, vii. 1031, 48, 52, 67, 114, 132.
It appears from the papers in Thurloe that Cromwell paid great attention to the prosperity of the West Indian colonies, as affording facilities to future attempts on the American continent.
Mr. Stuart Reid gives to this curious name the more impressive form of Mayelstone. As Earl Marshal. "Thurloe writes to Henry Cromwell to catch up some thousand Irish boys, to send to the colonies.
Fleetwood, from Dublin, asks Thurloe, "How cam it to passe, that this last teste was not at the first sitting of the house?" See in Archæol. xxiv. 39, a letter showing that several, who refused to subscribe at first through motives of conscience, did so later.
Thurloe, vii. 852, 859, 870. Pepys, i. 43. which it made against the encroachments of the crown, it deserves both admiration and gratitude; its subsequent proceedings assumed a more ambiguous character; ultimately they led to anarchy and military despotism. But, whatever were its merits or demerits, of both posterity has reaped the benefit.
The same communication was made to Thurloe, and to the different members of the protector's family; nor did it fail to obtain credit among men who believed that "in other instances he had been favoured with similar assurances, and that they had never deceived him."
These motives of policy were probably seconded by his bigoted prejudices; as no human mind ever contained so strange a mixture of sagacity and absurdity as that of this extraordinary personage. * See the account of the negotiations with France and Spain by Thurloe, vol. i. p. 759. He proposed to Sweden a general league and confederacy of all the Protestants. Whitlocke, p. 620.
The somewhere proved to be a small bijou residence in the neighbourhood of Thurloe Square; and, arrived at the door, it suddenly struck Rowley who lived there. "Oh come, I say," he began, drawing back a step or two. "I don't half think this'll do. I'm married now, you see, and I've given up this sort of society.". Nick looked at him with an air of injured surprise. "What do you mean?" he asked.
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