his occupation of the office of Postmaster-General. These letters are also now at the Bodleian. In 1657 Thurloe became a member of Cromwell's second council, as well as governor of the London Charterhouse school, and in 1658 he became chancellor of the University of Glasgow. After the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, he supported his son Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector and, in 1659, represented Cambridge University in the Third Protectorate Parliament. Later that year various parties accused him of arbitrary decisions as head of intelligence, and he was deprived of his offices. Reinstated as a secretary of state on 27 February 1660, he resisted the return of Charles II. After the Restoration, Thurloe was arrested for high treason on 15 May 1660 but was not tried. He was released on 29 June on the condition that he would assist the new government upon request. He retired from public life but served as a behind-the-scenes authority on foreign affairs and wrote informative papers for Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, but he did not become part of any new government. Marriages and children He married twice: Firstly to a lady of the Peyton family, by whom he had two sons who died as infants; Secondly he married Anne Lytcott, 3rd daughter of Sir John Lytcott (died c.1645), of East Molesey in Surrey, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber who in 1633 had purchased the manor of East Molesey from Ralph Freeman. He was buried in St Mary's Church, East Molesey, where survives his monument and several to members of the Clerk family, the children of his daughter Ursula, who became his heirs. Anne Lytcott's mother was Mary Overbury, daughter of Nicholas Overbury of Bourton on the Hill in Gloucestershire and sister of the famous Sir Thomas Overbury. By Anne Lytcott he had four sons and two daughters, including: John Thurloe, eldest son, admitted at Lincoln's–Inn in 1665, died at Amesbury in Wiltshire, where he was buried. Oliver Thurloe, 2nd son, who married but died childless. Thomas Thurloe, 3rd son, born in March 1650/1, in about January 1676/7 appointed Governor of James Island in the River Gambia, where he died. Nicholas Thurloe, 4th son, "educated to the sea", living in 1678. Mary Thurloe, eldest daughter, married to Thomas Ligoe of Burcott in Buckinghamshire, by whom she had issue: Thomas Ligoe, married to a sister of John Hamilton; Eleanor Ligoe, married