Rabbis in Lunatics." Heedless of such mockery, the
Harringtonians did not cease to put forth their own pamphlets with
all seriousness. _Valerius and Publicola, or the True Form of a
Popular Commonwealth extracted e puris naturalibus_ is the title
of a dialogue of Harrington's, of Nov. 17, expounding his principles
afresh.[1]

[Footnote 1: Whitlocke, IV. 376 and 379-380; Ludlow, 751-752; Letters
of M. de Bordeaux, in Appendix to Guizot, II. 275, 293, 304; Thomason
Tract of date, entitled _Decrees and Orders, &c.;_ and
Thomason Catalogue.]

Two conclusions at least had been arrived at in the Sub-Committee and
Committee, and approved by the Wallingford-House Council of officers,
before the middle of November, when they were actually embodied in
the Treaty with Monk's Commissioners in London. One was as to the
mode of determining Parliamentary qualifications. That duty was to be
entrusted to a body of nineteen persons, ten of them named
(Whitlocke, Vane, Ludlow, St. John, Warriston, &c.), and the other
nine to be chosen by the Armies of England, Ireland, and Scotland,
three by each. A still more important conclusion was as to the body,
intermediate between the present powers and the People, to which the
whole Constitution should be submitted for revision and ratification
before being imposed upon the People. It was to be a great
Representative Council of the Army and Navy, to be composed of
delegates in the proportion of two commissioned officers from each
regiment in England, Scotland, or Ireland, chosen by the commissioned
officers of the regiments severally, together with ten naval officers
to be chosen by the officers of the Fleet collectively. To Ludlow,
approving only coldly of all that departed from his fixed idea of
sheer restitution of the Rump, this arrangement seemed, nevertheless,
a very fair one. It was settled, in fact, that the great
Representative Council should meet at Whitehall on the 6th of
December, by which time the complete draft of the Constitution would
be ready.[1]

[Footnote 1: Whitlocke, IV. 374; Phillips. 671-672.]

The Army and Navy Council did meet on that day, and it is from their
proceedings that we learn best the nature of the Constitution
submitted to them. The meeting, indeed, was not the great one that
had been expected. The delegates from Ireland had not arrived; none
had come from Monk's army, though due intimation had been given to
him and he was reckoned bound by the Treaty; an