that went forth to the citizens, and that was
circulated over the country in letters, was that the Council of
Officers "had been necessitated to obstruct the sitting of the
Parliament for the present," but would themselves take all necessary
charge of the public peace till there should be a more regular
authority. In fact, the Rump had been dissolved a second time after a
restored session, of five months.[1]

[Footnote 1: Commons Journals of date; Phillips, 661; Whitlocke, IV.
364-365; Ludlow, 711 and 723-726.]

CHAPTER I.

Second Section (continued).

THE ANARCHY, STAGE II.: OR THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE INTERREGNUM: OCT.
13, 1659-DEC. 26, 1659.

THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE GOVERNMENT: ITS _COMMITTEE OF SAFETY_:
BEHAVIOUR OF LUDLOW AND OTHER LEADING REPUBLICANS: DEATH OF
BRADSHAW.--ARMY-ARRANGEMENTS OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT: FLEETWOOD,
LAMBERT, AND DESBOROUGH THE MILITARY CHIEFS: DECLARED CHAMPIONSHIP OF
THE RUMP BY MONK IN SCOTLAND: NEGOTIATIONS OPENED WITH MONK, AND
LAMBERT SENT NORTH TO OPPOSE HIM: MONK'S MOCK TREATY WITH LAMBERT AND
THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE GOVERNMENT THROUGH COMMISSIONERS IN LONDON: HIS
PREPARATIONS MEANWHILE IN SCOTLAND: HIS ADVANCE FROM EDINBURGH TO
BERWICK: MONK'S ARMY AND LAMBERT'S.--FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE
WALLINGFORD-HOUSE GOVERNMENT: TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND SPAIN:
LOCKHART: CHARLES II. AT FONTARABIA: GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT OF HIS
CHANCES IN ENGLAND.--DISCUSSIONS OF THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE GOVERNMENT
AS TO THE FUTURE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH: THE VANE PARTY
AND THE WHITLOCKE PARTY IN THESE DISCUSSIONS: JOHNSTONE OF WARRISTON,
THE HARRINGTONIANS, AND LUDLOW: ATTEMPTED CONCLUSIONS.--MONK AT
COLDSTREAM: UNIVERSAL WHIRL OF OPINION IN FAVOUR OF HIM AND THE
RUMP: UTTER DISCREDIT OF THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE RULE IN LONDON:
VACILLATION AND COLLAPSE OF FLEETWOOD: THE RUMP RESTORED A SECOND
TIME.

For about a fortnight after Lambert's _coup d'etat_, the Council
of State of the Rump, having become in a manner a party to that
action, still continued to sit in Whitehall, on an understanding
with the General Council of the Officers meeting in Wallingford
House. There are preserved minutes of their sitting's to the 25th of
October, from which it appears that the Laird of Warriston was in the
chair once or twice, but Whitlocke principally. Bradshaw, who was
then a dying man, had appeared at one meeting, but only to protest
that, "being now going to his God," he must leave his testimony
against a compro