Lincoln's Inn
Fields under the command of Okey, Alured, Markham, and Mosse.
Fleetwood, applied to for the keys of the Parliament house, willingly
gave them up and resigned all charge. On Saturday the 24th the mass
of the soldiers were gladly at the appointed rendezvous, and were
marched down Chancery Lane, where the Speaker came out to them at the
Rolls, and was received with shouts of joy and repentance. On Monday
the 26th all the members of the Rump who were at hand met the Speaker
in the Council-Chamber at Whitehall, and walked thence to Westminster
Hall, the mace carried before them, and the soldiers and populace
cheering as they passed. They constituted the House and proceeded at
once to business. They had been excluded two months and fourteen
days.[1]

[Footnote 1: Whitlocke, IV. 380-384; Phillips, 676; Letter of M. de
Bordeaux to Mazarin of Dec. 28, 1659 (English reckoning), Guizot,
318-322.]

CHAPTER I.

Second Section (continued).

THE ANARCHY, STAGE III.: OR SECOND RESTORATION OF THE RUMP, WITH
MONK'S MARCH FROM SCOTLAND: DEC. 26, 1659--FEB. 21, 1659-60.

THE RUMP AFTER ITS SECOND RESTORATION: NEW COUNCIL OF STATE:
PENALTIES ON VANE, LAMBERT, DESBOROUGH, AND THE OTHER CHIEFS OF THE
WALLINGFORD-HOUSE INTERREGNUM: CASE OF LUDLOW: NEW ARMY REMODELLING:
ABATEMENT OF REPUBLICAN FERVENCY AMONG THE RUMPERS: DISPERSION OF
LAMBERT'S FORCE IS THE NORTH: MONK'S MARCH FROM SCOTLAND: STAGES AND
INCIDENTS OF THE MARCH: HIS HALT AT ST. ALBAN'S AND MESSAGE THENCE TO
THE RUMP: HIS NEARER VIEW OF THE SITUATION: HIS ENTRY INTO LONDON,
FEB. 3, 1659-60: HIS AMBIGUOUS SPEECH TO THE RUMP, FEB. 6: HIS
POPULARITY IN LONDON: PAMPHLETS AND LETTERS DURING HIS MARCH AND ON
HIS ARRIVAL: PRYNNE'S PAMPHLETS ON BEHALF OF THE SECLUDED MEMBERS:
TUMULT IN THE CITY: TUMULT SUPPRESSED BY MONK AS SERVANT OF THE RUMP:
HIS POPULARITY GONE: BLUNDER RETRIEVED BY MONK'S RECONCILIATION WITH
THE CITY AND DECLARATION AGAINST THE RUMP: ROASTING OF THE RUMP IN
LONDON, FEB. 11, 1659-60: MONK MASTER OF THE CITY AND OF THE RUMP
TOO: CONSULTATIONS WITH THE SECLUDED MEMBERS: BILL OF THE RUMP FOR
ENLARGING ITSELF BY NEW ELECTIONS: BILL SET ASIDE BY THE RESEATING OF
THE SECLUDED MEMBERS: RECONSTITUTION OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT UNDER
MONK'S DICTATORSHIP.

The Rump, as restored the second time, never recovered even its
former small dimensions. On a division taken the day after its
restoration there were only thirty-seven present and voting, nor in
an