Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)

27.2.1657 (Friday 27 February 1657)

document 70010025

27. confident reports that Cromwell was proclaimed King, said also we shall have a house of lords, some great alteration is in hand, but what it will be time will discover(,) only he has outwitted his coactors in former designs, and no doubt his purpose is the like, but none can outwit the almighty.