The Council of the Rump, on their side, considering what was best in the circumstances, with Dunkirk and the other results of Cromwell's Flanders enterprise still on their hands, were glad to retain Lockhart's services in the post of Ambassador to Louis XIV.

and sent him back, after a week or two, with re-credentials in that post from the new Government .-- There had been more uncertainty about Henry Cromwell in Ireland.

His great popularity and the conditions of the country itself made a Cromwellian revolt there more likely than anywhere else.

But there was to be no such thing.

Left by his inert brother without direct communications, and receiving intelligence, as he says, "only from common fame," Henry had very bravely held out to the last, ascertaining the temper of his officers and the Army.