ment of "Secluded Members"--to wit, the 143 excluded
by Pride's Purge and seventy more who had been excluded at various
times before for Royalist contumacy. Finding the doors open, three of
these unwelcome visitors went in, of whom two came out again and were
not re-admitted, but one remained. That one was William Prynne. He
sat like a ghoul among the Rumpers. No persuasion on earth could
induce him to leave. Hasilrig stormed at him, and Vane coaxed him;
but there he sat, and there he would sit! He was a member of the Long
Parliament, and no other Parliament was or could be rightfully in
existence but that; if they turned him out, it should only be by
carrying him out by his feet and shoulders! Unwilling to resort to
that method, those present got rid of the intruder by postponing
their meeting to a later hour, and taking care that, when Prynne
reappeared, he should be turned back. The House that day passed an
order that none should sit in it but genuine Rumpers, appointing a
committee to ascertain who these were and to report on dubious cases;
and the order was affixed to the doors outside. For a day or two
Prynne and others still haunted the lobbies; but at length they
desisted, Prynne taking his revenge by at once printing _The
Republicans' and Others' spurious Old Cause briefly and truly
anatomized_, and then _One Sheet, or, if you will, a Winding
Sheet, for the Good Old Cause_.[1]

[Footnote 1: Guizot, I. 138-141; Commons Journals, May 9, 1659;
Catalogue of Thomason Pamphlets. The first of the two named pamphlets
of Prynne appeared, with his name in full, May 13; the second, "by
W.P.," May 30.--Prynne continued, in subsequent pamphlets, to
attack the Rumpers for the wrong done to him and the other secluded
members in still debarring them from their seats. One was entitled
_A True and Perfect Narrative of what was done, spoken, by and
between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly-forcibly late Secluded
Members, the Army Officers, and those now sitting both in the
Commons Lobby, House, and elsewhere, on Saturday and Monday last
(the 7 and 9 of this instant May)_. Though so entitled, it did
not appear till June 13. It contained this passage against the
Bumpers:--"Themselves in divers of their printed Declarations, and
their instruments in sundry books (as JOHN GOODWIN, MARKHAM
NEEDHAM, MELTON, and others), justified, maintained, the very
highest, worst, treasonablest, execrablest, of all Popish,
Jesuitical, Unchristian, ten