ductor left them. It was a small chamber, furnished with globes, maps, atlasses, charts, plans of different fortifications, and a handsome bookcase, mostly filled with controversial divinity,. though it contained such works as were then published of Waller, Denham, Cowley, Harrington, Marvel, and the lighter effusions of Milton; together with Hartlib's Discourse of Husbandry, the works of Machiavel, Harvey's Latin essay on the circulation of the blood, and other political and scientific books, Latin, English, and French. On a small table in the middle of the room, lay the Protector's plan for the foundation of a new college, with a portfolio containing engravings of Scripture-subjects, by Faithorne, around which were scattered numerous pamphlets and fugitive pieces, religious and political. It was not without surprise that the colonel recognized among the latter several of the crazy publications of his brother the saint, alias free-born John, alias Lilburne the

Trouble-world;* such "Jonah's as cry out of the Whale's Belly,"-" An Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his son-in-law Henry Ireton," and other similar attacks upon the Protector, for which he was at that moment in prison.-In a recess of the window, upon a sloping desk, was an open folio Bible, thickly overwritten with marginal annotations in Cromwell's own hand, though the tremulous letters showed that he now guided the pen with difficulty;-and from a half-open

* On the death of this turbulent and refractory enthusiast, which occurred soon afterwards, there appeared the following epigrammatic epitaph:

"Is John departed, and is Lilburne gone?
Farewell to both, to Lilburne and to John!
Yet being gone, take this advice from me,
Let them not both in one grave buried be.
Here lay ye John; lay Lilburne hereabout,
For if they both should meet, they would fall out."

This alludes to a saying, that John Lilburne was so quarrelsome, that if he were the only man in the world, John would quarrel with Lilburne and Lilburne with John.

drawer beneath, glittered the hilts of a brace of pistols. With a boyish curiosity, Jocelyn opened the door of an inner closet, in which he observed two naked swords hanging against the wall, and a secret stair case, probably intended for escape in case of a sudden surprise.

As a proof of the hold which heraldic vanities may obtain, even over such a mind as Cromwell's, it is not unworthy of remark that his family arms, handsomely emblazoned upon vellum, and set in a gilt frame, were not only hung up in the saloon, but were exhibited in this private apartment. Nor did it escape Lilburne's observation, that since he had become Protector, he had assumed a particular bearing in his crest, which had been granted to his ancestor by Henry the Eighth,* as if anxious to disprove

Against Sir Richard Cromwell's name, in Noble's Pedigree of that family, is the following note :-"The 1st of May, 1540, a solemn triumph was held at Westminster, before King Henry VIII. by Sir John Dudley, Sir Richard Cromwell, aud four other challengers, which was proclaimed in France, Spain, Scotland, and Flanders. The 2d day, at Tourney, Sir Richard Cromwell over

the current imputations against his low and obscure birth. While Lilburne was examining this escutcheon, the Protector suddenly entered, still wearing his hat, seated himself beside the open Bible, and turning to Lilburne, who continued standing, exclaimed, with a stern look and hurried voice, "That is the boy Compton, and his father has escaped. I know it all, ay and more than you yourself are acquainted with. You sate in the chair of the scorner, when you marked my conferences with the crazy Papist woman, Mary Lawrence, and yet from her did I gather the first tidings of the treasonable prothrew Mr. Palmer off his horse. And the 5th day, at Barriers, he likewise overthrew Mr. Culpep; to his and the challenger's great ho:" Mr. Noble gives from Stowe a particular account of this jousting: and adds, from Fuller's Church History, that when the King saw Sir Richard's prowess, he was so enraptured that he exclaimed, “Formerly thou wast my Dick, but hereafter thou shalt be my diamond; and thereupon dropped a diamond ring from his finger, which Sir Richard taking up, his Majesty presented it to him, bidding him ever afterwards bear such a one in the foregamb of the demy-lion in his crest, instead of the javelin."-Memoirs of the Protector O. C. p. 201.

ceedings at Brambletye. For some cause, what it is I know not, she has sworn deadly enmity to the whole race; and I avail myself of every aid that the Lord sends me. I have a spy in every house. She has given me good reasons why this stripling should be detained as a hostage for his father. Away with him to the Gate-house at Westminster. These perpetual revelations of the plots against Zion are so many special providences calling me to perform my duty. I hold the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, and the rebellers against his name shall perish, for the Lord is weary of pardoning. Formerly I lived in Mesheck, which signifieth prolonging; in Kedar, which signifieth blackness; but my soul is now with the congregation of the firstborn. I know them all; the enemies of the New Jerusalem; my spies beset them on every side; the toils of the hunter are around them; I will pour out the seventh vial upon them; what God hath given me, man shall not take away. They shall perish; I will dash out their