Original sentence: He was subsequently a member of the nominated Barebones Parliament and of both councils of state appointed by it, and, after the establishment of the Protectorate sat in the Parliaments of 1654 (for the East Riding) and 1656 (for Newcastle) and was a member of both councils of state established during Cromwell's rule
Edited sentence: After the establishment of the Protectorate sat in the Parliaments of 1654 (for the East Riding) and 1656 (for Newcastle) and was a member of both councils of state established during Cromwell's rule.In 1654 he was made captain of the grey-coated foot-guards, who waited upon the Protector at Whitehall.Strickland was subsequently a member of the nominated Barebones Parliament and of both councils of state appointed by it.This position gave him a prominent part in the second investiture of the Lord Protector