Note 296 — Chapter XXXVIII · HENRY CROMWELL, 1655-1659

H. Cromwell to the Speaker, June 15, 1659, Thurloe, vii. 683, and to Fleetwood, ib. 685; Clarendon State Papers, iii. 500; Clarendon’s Hist. of the Rebellion, xvi. 16; Ludlow, ii. Clarendon states in a letter that Henry Cromwell had at one time actually determined to declare for the King, ‘but that wretched fellow had no courage,’ to Ormonde, October 25, 1659, in Carte’s Original Letters, ii. 242.