Note 144 — INTERREGNUM: 1649-1660.
Reading edition
These anecdotes appear in A Short Abridgment of Britain’s Distemper from 1639 to 1649. By Patrick Gordon of Ruthven. Spalding Club. 1844. They are placed by the author in connection with Cromwell’s comparatively peaceful visit to Edinburgh in 1648, but must, beyond a doubt, refer to the crisis of 1650.