The Second Protectorate Parliament

Cromwell decided it was simply too dangerous to let out of parliament. The exiled royalists and their spanish allies started putting feelers out for restoring the house of stuart. But by this point, any exiled royalist still hard corn enough to be working for the restoration now considered the newport treaty not an acceptable compromise but an unjust shackling of divine monarchical authority. So the overtures went nowhere. Hope for restoration was dealt a further blow in the spring of 16 58 when the anglo french alliance was renewed,. By the middle of may, an army of 25 thousand backed by 20 english warships, started laying siege to dunkirk. On june fourth the two sides met