Note 1127 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Mr. Harrison, as cited, p. 210. Mr. Allanson Picton, in his lectures on the Rise and Fall of the English Commonwealth, has with more pains and circumspection sought to make good a similar judgment. But the nature of his performance is tested by his contending on the one hand that the ideal of the Commonwealth was altogether premature, and on the other that Cromwell governed with the real consent of the nation.