The Hillsborough Recorder

CURIOUS DISCOVERY.

It is a fact, as strange as it may seem,
That a number of manuscript volumes,
(we believe eighteen) undoubtedly genuine,
containing the journal of the British
House of Commons during the Protectorate
of Cromwell, has been discovered among a mass of books and
manuscripts belonging to a Literary
Society in New York, which for many
years had remained undisturbed. This
journal has heretofore been lost, and in
parts of it discovered by the British
historians and antiquarians, To have
been compelled to supply this gap in
their historical records from other less
authentic sources. The manuscripts
were undoubtedly brought to this country
by the Regicides, who fled hither on
the restoration, with a view to prevent
the attainder of their friends, and to
conceal the proceedings of the Rump
Parliament. From these persons they
can be traced with reasonable certainty
into the possession of the society,
among whose books they have been
found by an industrious and intelligent
searcher for the curious. The books
have not remained so long concealed,
but it is their contents which have now
for the first time been discovered.
Heretofore they have passed as some
old manuscripts, only remarkable as specimens of the writings of a
rod.

B. Island Amer.