called Rabbi Moses, written expressly for that pur- 

 pose. 



It is singular that, under all these circumstances, 

 Richard Franck, a Cromwellian trooper, and Inde- 

 pendent, should have been represented as an un- 

 fortunate Royalist, who undertook his tour to Scot- 

 land to escape the persecution of the dominant 

 party during the Commonwealth. His enumera- 

 tion of " the six great patriots of the English na- 

 tion," Ireton, Vane, Nevill, Martin, Marvel, and 

 Cromwell,* as well as his subsequent panegyric 

 upon the Protector,f ought to have prevented this 

 misrepresentation. The truth seems to be, that the 

 author's journey into Scotland was owing to his de- 

 sire of withdrawing himself from the disturbances 

 which seemed like to arise in the Commonwealth. 

 At what exact period this occurred, is not surely 

 settled. If written in 1658, the journey must 

 have been performed in 1656 or 1657, in which 

 case the disturbances apprehended might be those 

 betwixt the republicans and the faction of Crom- 

 well, which led to the plot for which Sinder- 



* Pp. 253-4. f P. 286. 



