Henceforth the sea was to be his chief element; and, as Admiral or General at sea, he was to become very famous.[1] [Footnote 1: Godwin, IV, 214-217 and 298-300; Guizot, II.

231-234; Thomason copy of the Declaration against Spain, dated Nov.

9, 1655; Council Order Books, Oct.

2, 1655; Article on Lockhart in Chambers's Biographical Dictionary of Scotsmen; Carlyle, III.

309-310.] It was just about this time of change and extension in the foreign relations of the Commonwealth that the people of England and Wales became aware that they were, and had been for some time, under an entirely new system of home-government, called _Government by Major-Generals_.
The difficulties of the home-government of the Protectorate were great and peculiar.