Named Entity Results, Bartlett J. Cromwell

, and practising rigid self-denial. He first appeared as a preacher at Manchester, in 1648, and he was imprisoned as a disturber of the peace. Then he travelled over England, meeting the same fate everywhere, but gaining many followers. He warmly advocated all the Christian virtues, simplicity in worship, and in manner of living. Brought before a justice at Derby, in 1650, he told the magistrate to quake before the Lord, and thereafter he and his sect were called Quakers. Taken before Cromwell, in London, that ruler not only released him, but declared his doctrines were salutary, and he afterwards protected him from persecution; but after the Restoration he and his followers were dreadfully persecuted by the Stuarts. He married the widow of a Welsh judge in 1669, and in 1672 he came to America, and preached in Maryland, Long Island, and New Jersey, visiting Friends wherever they were seated. Fox afterwards visited Holland and parts of Germany. His writings upon the subject of

and Bonaparte with its strong arm, the military, firmly in his grasp. The Council of the Ancients, deceived by a trick, assembled at St. Cloud the next day. Bonaparte appeared before them to justify his conduct. Perceiving their enmity, he threatened them with arrest by the military if they should decide against him. Meanwhile Lucien had read the letters of resignation of the three directors to the Council of Five Hundred. A scene of terrible excitement occurred. There were shouts of No Cromwell! no dictator! the constitution forever! Bonaparte entered that chamber with four grenadiers, and attempted to speak, but was interrupted by cries and execrations. The members seemed about to offer personal violence to the bold soldier, when a body of troops rushed in and bore him off. A motion was made for his outlawry, which Lucien refused to put, and left the chair. He went out and addressed the soldiers. At the conclusion of his speech, Murat entered with a body of armed men, and

Government, instrument of. The Instrument of Government was a constitution adopted by Cromwell and his council of officers when the Little Parliament dissolved itself in December, 1653, surrendering authority to Cromwell as Lord Protector. It is therefore to be regarded as the constitutional basis or definition of the Protectorate; and under it the reformed Parliament met in September, 1654. This assembly proceeded to settle the government on a Parliamentary basis, taking the Instrument Cromwell as Lord Protector. It is therefore to be regarded as the constitutional basis or definition of the Protectorate; and under it the reformed Parliament met in September, 1654. This assembly proceeded to settle the government on a Parliamentary basis, taking the Instrument as the groundwork of the new constitution, and carry ing it clause by clause. The Instrument of Government holds therefore not only an important place in English political history, but in the general history of the development of the idea of a written constitution. The following is its text: The government of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging. 1. That the supreme legislative authority of the Commonwealth of England Scotland, an