4.  MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM GOFFE. Sussex, Hants, and Berks.

5.  FLEETWOOD (with MAJOR-GENERAL Oxford, Bucks, Herts,
HEZEKIAH HAYNES as his deputy). Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex,
and Cambridge.

6.  MAJOR-GENERAL EDWARD WHALLEY. Lincoln, Notts, Derby,
Warwick, and Leicester.

7.  MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM BUTLER. Northampton, Bedford,
Hunts, and Rutland.

8.  MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES WORSLEY Chester, Lancaster, and
(succeeded by MAJOR-GENERAL Stafford.
TOBIAS BRIDGES).

9.  LAMBERT (with MAJOR-GENERAL York, Durham, Cumberland
ROBERT TILBURNE and MAJOR-GENERAL Westmorland,
CHARLES HOWARD as his deputies). and Northumberland.

10.  MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN DESBOROUGH. Gloucester, Wilts, Dorset,
Somerset, Devon, and
Cornwall.

11.  MAJOR-GENERAL JAMES BERRY. Worcester, Hereford, Salop,
and North Wales.

12.  MAJOR-GENERAL DAWKINS. Monmouthshire and
South Wales.[1]

[Footnote 1:  Council Order Books, as digested by Godwin, IV. 228-229.]

The powers intrusted to these Major-Generals and to their subordinate officers in the several counties were all but universal.  They were to patrol the counties with horse and foot, but especially with horse.  They were to guard against robberies and tumults and to bring criminals to punishment.  They were to take charge of the public morals, and see the laws put in force against drunkenness, blasphemy, plays and interludes, profanation of the Lord’s Day, and disorderliness generally.  They were to keep a register of all disaffected persons, remove arms from their houses, note their changes of residence, and take security for the good behaviour of themselves, their families, and servants.  All travellers and strangers were bound to appear before them, and give an account of themselves and their business.  They were to arrest vagabonds and persons with no visible means of living.  Above all, they were to see to the execution of a certain very severe and far-reaching measure which the Protector and the Council had determined to adopt in consequence of the late Royalist insurrection and conspiracy.

Either from information that had been received, or merely in terrorem, there had, during the past summer and autumn, been numerous arrests of persons of rank and wealth that had hitherto been allowed to live quietly in their country mansions, on the understanding that, though Royalists, they had ceased to be such, in any active sense.  The Marquis of Hertford, the Earl of Lindsey, the Earl of Newport, the Earl of Northampton, the Earl of Rivers, the Earl of Peterborough, Viscount Falkland, and Lords Lovelace, St. John, Petre, Coventry, Maynard, Lucas, and Willoughby of Parham, with a great many commoners of distinction,