House party
Over the next few years, Livesey became disillusioned as Parliament's powers were first delegated to the English Council of State, before being dissolved and replaced by the Protectorate in 1654. He confined himself to local politics, serving as High Sheriff of Kent in 1655 and 1656 and when the Rump was reinstated in May 1659, he supported the civilian faction in Parliament against the Army's Wallingford House party. After Charles II was restored to the throne in May 1660, Livesey and his wife fled to the Low Countries. Claims that he was assassinated by Royalist agents are incorrect; he appears to have died in Rotterdam around June 1665, although some biographies give this as 1663.