He was also made a Colonel, and at length he was brought into the Council.

The fact is thus minuted in the Council's Books under date Dec.

31, 1657:--"The Lord Richard Cromwell did this day take the oath of a Councillor, the same being administered unto him by the Earl of Mulgrave and General Desborough, in virtue of his Highness's Commission under the Great Seal." He was immediately put on all Committees of the Council; and generally after that, when he did attend, his name was put next after the President's in the _sederunt_.
3.

THE LORD HENRY CROMWELL: _aetat.

29_: in the Army since his boyhood; Colonel since 1649; Major-General and chief Commander in Ireland since the middle of 1655.