The English auxiliaries in Flanders were still shoulder to shoulder with Turenne and his Frenchmen, sharing with them such new successes as the capture of Ypres, accomplished mainly by the valour of the brave Morgan.

But who knew what might be passing in the mind of the crafty Cardinal?
Then what of the Dutch?
In the streets of Amsterdam the populace, on receipt of the news of Cromwell's death, had gone about shouting "The Devil is dead"; the alliance between the English Commonwealth and the United Provinces had recently been on strain almost to snapping; what if, on the new opportunity, the policy of the States-General should veer openly towards the Stuart interest?
All this was in the calculations of Hyde and his fellow-exiles, and it was their main disappointment that the quiet acceptance and seeming stability of the new Protectorate at home prevented the spring against it of such foreign possibilities.

"I hope this young man will not inherit his father's fortune," wrote Hyde in the fifth month after Richard's accession, "but that some confusion will fall out which must make open a door for us." The speculation was more likely than even Hyde then knew.

Underneath the great apparent calm at home the beginnings of a confusion at the very centre were already at work.[1] [Footnote 1: Thurloe, VII.

405 and 414; Guizot's _Richard Cromwell and the Restoration_ (English edition of 1856), I.6-11.] It will be well at this point to have before us a list of the most conspicuous props and assessors of the new Protectorate.