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Lord Protector preferred to leave them to the ordinary proceedure of 
a commission of oyer and terminer.! He had not forgotten the 
petition of right then not quite thirty years old. Accordingly we 
find an entry in the books of the Council of State.’ 
‘March 22d, Present His Highness, Lord President Lawrence, Lord Lisle, 
Lord Lambert, Sir Charles Wolsely, Col Fiennes, Mr. Rous, Col Jones, Earl of 
Mulgrave, Major-General Skippon, Sir Gilbert Pickering, Mr. Strickland. 
That letters be sent to Lord Chief Justice St. John, and Mr. Justice Atkins, 
to desire them to repaire forthwith to His Highness. 
Ordered by His Highness and the counsell. That Commissions of Oyer and 
Terminer be issued forthwith into the several Countyes for the Tryall of the 
persons who have been in the late insurrection. 
Ordered that it be referred to Sir Charles Wolsely, Col Jones, Lord Lambert 
Mr. Strickland, Earl of Mulgrave, Lord Viscount Lisle, Sir Gilbert Pickering 
and Major-General Skippon any 3 of them to speake with the Counsell learned 
of His Highnesse the Lord Protector and to consider the whole business touching 
the tryall of the persons in the late insurrection, and to offer the names of the 
persons to be inserted into the severall commissions and Mr. Secretary Thurloe 
is desired to be assisting to this committee. 
March 23rd, Friday. Present Lord President Lawrence, Lord Lambert 
Major-General Skippon and Colonel Fiennes. 
Sir Charles Wolsely makes report. i 
_ Recorder of London to be written to, to come up speedily. 
That a Commission of oyer and terminer be directed to S'. Francis Thorpe 
oné of the Barons of the Exchequer, John Glynn, Sergeant at Law, William 
Steele, Sergeant at Law, Recorder of the City of London, John Haggot Esq. 
one of the Justices of the Countyes of Carmarthen, Pembroke and Cardigan, 
Sir John Evelin [Evelyn] Robert Wallop, Esq., Alexander Popham Esq., John 
Sadler Esq. one of ye Masters of y® chancery, Thomas Estcourt Esq., one of 
y° Masters of y® chancery, William Stephens, Doctor of the Lawes, Richard 
Norton Esq., George Cooper, Nicholas Greene, Richard Lucy, Thomas Boureman, 
~1T do not stop here to discuss Cromwell’s administration of the law. He is 
admitted by every one to have thoroughly done so in all causes between man 
and man, Is it not too much to expect from those times, and the nature of his 
authority, that he should allow his government its origin, power and purpose to 
be discussed in Court? At least we can remember with pleasure how he asserted 
the Majesty of Justice in the case of Don Pantaleone Sa, 
_ *State Papers. Interregnum. Domestic Series, Entry or Fair Order Book of 
the Council of State. 1658—1655. No. 103. In the same volume under date 
March 16th, 1655, the usual wholsome remedy for Government antagonists, 
is prescribed on the present occasion. 
_ “March, 16th.—A letter to be sent to the Sheriffs of the severall counties for inventring and se- 
curing the personall estates of severall persons was read and agreed to. The Commissioners of the 
Treasury are to fill up the names of the Sub-commissioners, and Mr. Secretary is to give the 
Names of the persons whose estates are to be secured in the seyerall countyes,’’ 
