379-381; _Cromwelliana_, 168; Council Order Books, Oct.

24, 1657.] Various other matters of foreign concern occupied the Protector and his Council in the first months of the new Protectorate.

There is an order in the Council Books, July 28, 1657, for the despatch of L1000 more to the Piedmontese Protestants, and for certain sums to be paid to Genevese and other ministers for trouble they had taken in that matter; and, as late as Nov.

25, there is an order for another despatch of L1500.

There were, indeed, to be farther collections for the Piedmontese sufferers, and new interposition in their behalf with the Duke of Savoy.