History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate - 1649-1656 #245158

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'état; 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