Samuel Rawson Gardiner 
History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 
1649-1656

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Protectorate and the Corporations; The Government and the Corporations; December 1. – Whalley at Lincoln and Coventry; Case of Alderman Chambers at Coventry; January. – Resignation of municipal officers at Bristol; Magistrates dismissed at Tewkesbury and Gloucester; Case of Chipping Wycombe; Charter of Charles I. to Colchester; Reaction in Colchester; September 4. – A municipal coup d’etat; Henry Barrington as a local leader; Growth of the Opposition; A Parliamentary election; A municipal election; Expulsion of Barrington and his partisans; May. – Barrington appeals to the Upper Bench; June. – Judgment in favour of Barrington; June 28. – The Protector’s intervention; August 10. – Restoration of the expelled members of corporation; September 3. – The municipal elections; September 26. – An inquiry ordered; Action of the Government; December 4. – Haynes to be present at the new elections; Haynes purges the Burgess Roll; December 19. – Election of the Government nominees; Probable composition of the Opposition party; Appointment of a committee for the renewal of charters; A new charter for Colchester; January 17. – Change in the Corporation of Carlisle; Cases of Salisbury and Leeds; Significance of the Colchester case; The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland; A Plantation policy; Emigration from Ireland; August 12. – The Act of Settlement