The young couple would seem to have remained in the country; nor do I find that the order for the arrest of the Duke was yet actually enforced.[2] [Footnote 1: As early as Nov.

1654 Charles II.

had written to Fairfax, begging him to "wipe out all he had done amiss" by such services to the Royal cause as he might yet render (Macray's Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, II.

426).] [Footnote 2: Council Order Books of dates.] What may have disposed Cromwell not to be too harsh about the marriage was the fact that he had just celebrated the marriages of his own two youngest daughters.

Lady Frances, the youngest, became Mrs.Rich on the 11th of November, and Lady Mary became Viscountess Falconbridge on the 18th.
The drift of public interest was now towards the reassembling of the adjourned Parliament on the 20th of January 1657-8.