Their Constitutional Bill of Sixty Articles disappeared with them; and they had not, in all the five months, sent up a single Bill to Cromwell for his assent.[1] [Footnote 1: Commons Journals of dates; Godwin, IV.

148-157; Carlyle, III.

70-95.] SECTION II.
BETWEEN THE PARLIAMENTS, OR THE TIME OF ARBITRARINESS: JAN.

22, 1654-55--SEPT.

17, 1656.
AVOWED "ARBITRARINESS" OF THIS STAGE OF THE PROTECTORATE, AND REASONS FOR IT .-- FIRST MEETING OF CROMWELL AND HIS COUNCIL AFTER THE DISSOLUTION: MAJOR-GENERAL OVERTON IN CUSTODY: OTHER ARRESTS: SUPPRESSION OF A WIDE REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY AND OF ROYALIST RISINGS IN YORKSHIRE AND THE WEST: REVENUE ORDINANCE AND MR.