ought, too wildly and
boisterously, and too much with a view to mere revenge. These were
Hasilrig, Scott, Neville, Morley, Walton, and their followers, among
whom it is no surprise to find Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper. They, of
course, had been left out of the new Committee of Safety, as the open
and irreconcileable enemies of the system of things Lambert had
brought in. Bradshaw, who would have been with them, died on the 31st
of October, five days after the constitution of the Committee,
leaving surely a most troubled world.[1]

[Footnote 1: Council Order Books from Oct. 13 to Oct. 25, 1659;
Ludlow, 706-713, 716-718, and 729-731; Whitlocke, IV. 365-368;
Phillips, 662.]

Military arrangements had been made already (October 14-17) by the
Wallingford-House Council. Fleetwood had been named
Commander-in-chief of all the Armies; Lambert Major-General of the
Forces in England and Scotland; Desborough Commissary-General of the
Horse; and these three, with Vane, Berry, and Ludlow, were to be the
Committee for nominations of all Army-officers. Though this, with the
omission of Hasilrig, was the very committee the Rump had appointed
for the same business, Ludlow could not make up his mind to act on
it. Disaffected officers, such as Okey, Morley, and Alured, had been
removed from their commands; Articles of War for maintaining
discipline everywhere had been drawn out; and the Committee of
nominations was to see that the officers throughout England,
Scotland, and Ireland should be men under engagement to the
newly-established order.--It was foreseen that in this there would be
great difficulties. Even within England and Wales there might be many
officers, besides those already discharged, whose adhesion to the
Wallingford-House policy was dubious; and these had to be found out.
There was still greater uncertainty about Ireland, where Ludlow had
for some months been master for the Rump. Thither, accordingly, there
was despatched Colonel Barrow, to be an agent for the
Wallingford-House policy with Ludlow's deputy Colonel John Jones, and
with the officers of the Irish Army. But it was from Scotland that
the hurricane was expected. Monk, having offered to stand by the Rump
against the Wallingford-House party while yet the two were in
struggle, had necessarily been omitted from that fourth Generalship,
after Fleetwood, Lambert, and Desborough, to which he would doubtless
have been appointed, in conformity with one of the proposals of