some of the Oliverian Army-men in Parliament, at all events, that had first resisted Pack’s motion.  Ludlow’s story is that they very nearly laid violent hands on Pack when he produced his paper; and the divisions in the Commons Journals exhibit Lambert and various Colonels, with Strickland, as among the chief obstructors of the Petition and Advice in its passage through the House.  Strickland, it will be remembered, was an eminent member of the Protector’s own Council; and, as far as one can gather, several others of that body, besides Lambert, Fleetwood, Desborough, and Strickland—­perhaps half of the whole number of those now habitually attending the Council—­were opposed to the Kingship.  On the other hand, the more enthusiastic Oliverians of the Council, those most attached to Cromwell personally, e.g.  Sir Charles Wolseley, appear to have been acquiescent, or even zealous for the Kingship; and there were at least some military Oliverians, out of the Council, of the same mind.  In the final vote of March 25, carrying the offer of Kingship, the tellers for the majority were Sir John Reynolds (Tipperary and Waterford), and Major-General Charles Howard (Cumberland), while those for the minority were Major-General Butler (Northamptonshire), and Colonel Salmon (Dumfries Burghs).  Undoubtedly, however, the chief managers of the Petition and Advice in the House from the first had been Whitlocke, Glynne, and others of the lawyers, with Lord Broghill.  The lawyers had been long anxious for a constitutional Kingship:  nothing else, they thought, could restore the proper machinery of Law and State, and make things safe.  Accordingly, out of doors, in the whole civilian class, and largely also among the more conservative citizens, the idea of Oliver’s Kingship was far from unwelcome.  The Presbyterians generally, it is believed, were very favourable to it, their dispositions towards Cromwell having changed greatly of late; nor of the old Presbyterian Royalists were all averse.  There were Royalists now who were not Stuartists, who wanted a king on grounds of general principle and expediency, but were not resolute that he should be Charles II. only.  The real combination of elements against Oliver’s Kingship consisted, therefore, of the unyielding old Royalists of the Stuart adhesion, regarding the elevation of the usurping “brewer” to the throne as abomination upon abomination, the Army Oliverians or Lambert and Fleetwood men, interested in the preservation of the existing Protectorate, and the passionate Republicans and Levellers, who had not yet condoned even the Protectorate, and whom the prospect of King and House of Lords over again, with all their belongings, made positively frantic.