the 30th of September, there was a call of the
House, when fines of L100 were inflicted on Henry Arthington
(_Rec., O^2_), John Carew (*_Rec., B_), Thomas Mackworth
(_Rec., O^1, O^2, R_), Alexander Popham (_O^1, O^2, R_), Richard
Norton (_Rec., B, O^1, O^2, R_), and John Stephens (_Rec.,
R_). These six, I imagine, were so punished as having never
attended the House, and as notoriously contumacious or disaffected.
But the House took the opportunity of punishing with smaller fines,
ranging from L5 to L40, twenty-five members who had been attending of
late too negligently; among whom were Lord Chief Justice St. John,
Viscount Lisle, Lord Commissioner Lisle, Colonel Hutchinson, and
Colonel Philip Jones. At the same time they made an example of
Major-General Harrison (*_Rec., O^1, R_). He, of course, had
never attended in the Restored Rump, for the very good reason that he
had been Cromwell's chief aider and abettor in the dissolution of the
Rump in April 1653. Remembering that fact, the House now ejected him
altogether, and declared him incapable of ever sitting in a
Parliament. There was, of course, no suspicion of _his_
complicity with the Royalists, nor of the complicity of many that had
been fined L5 or L20. The House, in its hour of triumph, was merely
settling all scores together.--In what high spirits Lambert's victory
had put the Rumpers appears from the fact that the House ordered the
release of the Quaker James Nayler at last (Sept. 8), and from such
half-jocular entries in the Order Books of the Council (Aug. 22 _et
seq._) as that Colonel Sydenham, Mr. Neville, or some other member
of the Council, or Mr. Brewster, a member of the Parliament, should
"have a fat buck of this season" out of the New Forest, Hampton Court
Park, or some other deer-preserve of the Commonwealth. The
attendances in the Council through August and September averaged from
twelve to sixteen, and generally included Whitlocke, Vane, Bradshaw,
Hasilrig, Scott, Johnstone of Warriston, Neville, Salway, Walton,
Berry, and Sydenham. Fleetwood and Desborough were more rarely
present.[1]

[Footnote 1: Commons Journals of dates and of Aug. 25 and Sept. 14
(Ashley Cooper); Whitlocke, IV. 355-362; Thurloe, VII. 731-734
(about Montague); and Order Books of Council of State from Aug. 11
to the end of September 1659. There is a gap in the series of the
Order Books, as preserved in the Record Office, between Sept. 2,
1658, the day before Oliver's death an