to Mr.
Richard, referred it to a committee to consider what more could be,
done towards his "comfortable and honourable subsistence," and, for
the rest, requested him to retire from Whitehall, and "dispose of
himself as his private occasions shall require." He lingered still a
little, fearing arrest by his creditors, but did at length retire to
Hampton Court, and thence into deeper and deeper privacy, to live
fifty-three years more and become very venerable, though the more
rude of the country-people would persist in calling him "Tumble-Down
Dick." In the week of his abdication there was on the London
book-stalls a rigmarole poem on the subject, called _The World in a
Maze, or Oliver's Ghost_. It opened with this dialogue between
father and son:--

_Oliver P._: Richard.!. Richard! Richard!

_Richard_: Who calls "Richard"? 'Tis a hollow voice;
And yet perhaps it may be mine own thoughts.

_Oliver_: No: 'tis thy father risen from the grave;
Nor--would I have thee fooled, nor yet turn knave.

_Richard_: I could not help it, father.[1]

[Footnote 1: Commons Journals of dates; Parl. Hist. III. 1551-1557;
Pamphlet, of given title, dated May 21 in MS. in the Thomason copy.]

CHAPTER I.

Second Section.

THE ANARCHY, STAGE I.: OR THE RESTORED RUMP:

MAY 25, 1859-OCT. 13, 1659.

NUMBER OF THE RESTORED RUMPERS AND LIST OF THEM: COUNCIL OP STATE OF
THE RESTORED RUMP: ANOMALOUS CHARACTER AND POSITION OP THE NEW
GOVERNMENT: MOMENTARY CHANCE OF A CIVIL WAR BETWEEN THE CROMWELLIANS
AND THE RUMPERS: CHANCE AVERTED BY THE ACQUIESCENCE OF THE LEADING
CROMWELLIANS: BEHAVIOUR OF RICHARD CROMWELL, MONK, HENRY CROMWELL,
LOCKHART, AND THURLOE, INDIVIDUALLY: BAULKED CROMWELLIANISM BECOMES
POTENTIAL ROYALISM: ENERGETIC PROCEEDINGS OF THE RESTORED RUMP: THEIR
ECCLESIASTICAL POLICY AND THEIR FOREIGN POLICY: TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE
AND SPAIN: LOCKHART AT THE SCENE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS AS AMBASSADOR
FOR THE RUMP: REMODELLING AND RE-OFFICERING OF THE ARMY, NAVY, AND
MILITIA: CONFEDERACY OF OLD AND NEW ROYALISTS FOR A SIMULTANEOUS
RISING: ACTUAL RISING UNDER SIR GEORGE BOOTH IN CHESHIRE: LAMBERT
SENT TO QUELL THE INSURRECTION: PECULIAR INTRIGUES ROUND MONK AT
DALKEITH: SIR GEORGE BOOTH'S INSURRECTION CRUSHED: EXULTATION OF THE
RUMP AND ACTION TAKEN AGAINST THE CHIEF INSURGENTS AND THEIR
ASSOCIATES: QUESTION OF THE FUTURE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH:
CHAOS OF OPINI