[Rarebooks] fa: CROMWELL - SPEECH OF THE LORD PROTECTOR TO PARLIAMENT - 1658

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The Speech of His Highness the Lord Protector, made to both Houses of Parliament at their first Meeting, on Thursday the 27th of January 1658... London: Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, printers to His Highness the Lord Protector: and are to be sold at the sign of the seven Stars in Fleetstreet over against Dunstan’s Church, [1659]. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to (19.5 cm) bound in later half morocco and pebbled cloth; [2] + 9 pp. Wing C7191; Thomason E.968[1]; ESTC R207688.

A speech delivered by Oliver Cromwell's son and successor, Richard Cromwell (1626-1712), in which he praises his late father and entreats parliament to keep a wary eye on Spain and to make good the Army's "great Arrear of Pay which is now due unto them," etc. Named successor only at the last moment, and facing a massive debt without the trust or support of the army (he had no military training and had not fought the Civil Wars), Richard was forced to abdicate in May, 1659, his protectorate having lasted less than nine months. But unlike many others in that tumultuous time, he lived to a ripe old age, dying in quiet seclusion in Hertfordshire at the age of 85.

Bound without the speech of Nathaniel Lord Fiennes; binding with rubbing and wear to the extremities and spine, rear board detached; early/contemporary ink doodlings on the title-page, small piece torn from the top corner of A2 (not affecting text), leaves toned with browning to the edges, a few small spots.