John Lisle, Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal, and the Last Months of the Cromwellian Protectorate.

The article offers information on John Lisle, and the last eighteen months of the Comwellian Protectoral regime. Lisle was one of the Commissioners of Great Seal during the Interregnum. He wrote the manuscript book "Abridgements of Chancery Causes," which cast a little more light on this period, enhancing the sense of Oliver Cromwell's waning grip on affairs during the last months of his life, and of the uncertainty, confusion and division at the centre that followed his death. The manuscript also provokes some reflection on the better known period of factional infighting during the session of Richard Cromwell's Parliament, which eventually led to the overthrow of the Protectorate.