[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ' Jobs Thurloe, son of Rev. Thomas Thurloe, rector of Abbots Rodiug, Essex county, England, was born in 1616. Having been called to the bar, he obtained the protection of Oliver St. John, afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Secretary to Commissioners from the Parliament, at the treaty of Uxbridge. In 1651, Thurloe was appointed Secretary to the Embassy to Holland; in 1652, Secretary of the Council of State, and in 1653, Secretary of State under Cromwell, the Lord Protector. In 1655, he was at the head of the Postal department; in 1656 was returned to Parliament from Ely; in 1657, was appointed a privy councillor, and after the Protector's death continued Secretary of State under Richard Cromwell, until January, 1660. In April following, he offered his services to Charles IL, and was sent to prison by the House of Commons in May, on a charge of high treason, but was soon after set at liberty, when he retired to Great Milton, Oxfordshire. He was offered several posts in the administration, after the Restoration, but declined them all, and died suddenly at Lincoln's Inn, on 21 February, 1668. Biographic UniverselU. His State Papers, published by Dr Birch in 1742, 7 vols., fol, form a vast repository of most important documents relating to the History of England during the Protectorate, and contain some interesting papers on the projected invasion of New Netherland. — Ed. 558 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.