ABSTRACT
Hezekiah Haynes, given the outcome of the 1656 elections in the east, would have been prepared for the difficulties encountered in the second Protectorate Parliament when he left Josselin at Earls Colne to attend the House of Commons as an MP. Haynes may have reflected bitterly on the abandonment of the attempt to establish godly rule that he had worked so assiduously to promote. Compared to many other Interregnum figures, for example, many of his fellow Major-Generals, Haynes escaped relatively unscathed from the re-imposition of monarchy. The bravery of men such as the millenarian Thomas Harrison rewrote the message the regime had wanted to convey and there was a shift to a more continuous persecution of those seen a potential threat. On 26 November 1660, as part of this wave, Haynes was arrested and held in the Tower of London for 18 months.
