and Lockhart at the moment of the great success before Dunkirk, these letters accomplished their object.

The will of France was signified at Turin, and the Protestants of the Valleys had another respite.[1] [Footnote 1: Burnet (ed.

1823), I.133; Letters of Downing, &c.

in Thurloe, Vol.

VII.; Council Order Books of date; Carlyle, III.
357-365.] Were one asked what subject of home concern had the first place in Cromwell's attention through all the events and transactions that have hitherto been noticed, the answer must still be the same for this as for all the previous portions of his Protectorate.