might take his seat, would fully answer the purpose.—­Article V. related to the Second House of Parliament, called simply “the other House.”  It was to consist of not more than seventy nor fewer than forty persons, qualified as by the last Article, to be nominated by the Protector and approved by the Commons House, twenty-one to be a quorum, and no proxies allowed.  Vacancies were to be filled up by nominations by the Protector, approved by the House itself.  The powers of the House were also defined.  They were to try no criminal cases whatsoever, unless on an impeachment sent up from the Commons, and only certain specified kinds of civil cases.  All their final determinations were to be by the House itself, and not by delegates or Committees.—­Article VI. ruled that all other particulars concerning “the calling and holding of Parliaments” should be by law and statute, and that there should be no legislation, or suspension, or abrogation of law, but by Act of Parliament.—­Article VII. guaranteed a yearly revenue of L1,300,000, whereof L1,000,000 to be for the Army and Navy, and the remaining L300,000 for the support of the Government, the sums not to be altered without the consent of Parliament, and no part of them to be raised by a land-tax.  There might also be “temporary supplies” over and above, to be voted by the Commons; but on no account was his Highness to impose any tax, or require any contribution, by his own authority.  By Cromwell’s request it was added that his expenditure of the Army and Navy money should be with the advice of his Council, and that accounts should be rendered to Parliament.—­Article VIII. settled that his Highness’s Privy Council should consist of not more than twenty-one persons, seven a quorum, to be approved by both Houses, and to be irremovable but by the consent of Parliament, though in the intervals of Parliament any of them might be suspended by the Protector.  It was asked that the Government should always be with the advice of the Council, and stipulated that, after Cromwell’s death, all appointments to the Commandership-in-chief, or to Generalships at land or sea, should be by the future Protectors with consent of the Council.—­Article IX. required that the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, the Lord Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, the Judges, and all the great State-officers in England, Scotland, or Ireland, should, in cases of future appointment by the Protector and his Council, be approved by Parliament.—­Article X. congratulated the Protector on his Established Church, and begged him to punish, according to law, all open revilers of the same.—­Article XI. related to Religion and Toleration.  The Protestant Faith, as contained in the Old and New Testaments, and as yet to be formulated in a Confession of Faith to be agreed upon between his Highness and the Parliament, was to be the professed public Religion, and to be universally respected as such; but all believers in