On comparing the total list with that of the Council of the First Protectorate (Vol.IV.p.

545), it will be seen that Cromwell retained all that were alive of his former Council, except Lambert, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, and Mr.Richard Mayor.

Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper had been a deserter from the former Council as early as Dec.
1654, and had since then been so conspicuous in the opposition that he had been one of the ninety-three excluded from the House at the opening of the Second Parliament.

Mr.Mayor, Richard Cromwell's father-in-law, though still nominally in the Council, seems to have been now in poor health and in retirement.

The one extraordinary omission was that of Lambert.