ceed to fill up the House as soon as may be, and to settle
the Commonwealth without a King, Single Person, or House of Peers;
and will promote the Trade of the nation; and will reserve due
Liberty to tender consciences: and that the Parliament will not
meddle with the executive power of the Law, but only in cases of
mal-administration and appeals, &c." Such a declaration was adopted
and ordered to be published on the 23rd. It was of a nature to
conciliate the Presbyterian and Independent clergy of the
Establishment and the conservative mass of the people generally, but
to disappoint grievously those various sectarian enemies of the
Church Establishment who had hitherto been the most enthusiastic
exponents of the "good old cause." The very phrase "the good old
cause," one observes, was now passing into disrepute, and the word
"fanatics" as a name for its extreme supporters was coming into use
within the circle of the Rump politicians themselves. Hasilrig,
Neville, and the rest of the ultra-Republicans, mast have felt the
power going from their hands.[1]

[Footnote 1: Commons Journals of dates; Phillips, 678; Ludlow,
807-809; Letters of M. de Bordeaux, Guizot, II. 325-839.]

While much of this cooling of the original Republican fervency was
owing to the recent experience of the public fickleness and of the
necessity of not "confining Providence" too much in the decision of
what to-morrow should bring forth, there was a special cause in the
relations now subsisting between the House and Monk.

The House having been restored by Monk's agency, but without that
march to London which he had proposed for the purpose, the majority
were by no means anxious to see him in London. Monk, on the other
hand, to whom it had been a disappointment that the House had been
restored without his presence to see it done, was resolved
nevertheless that the march should take place. He was already within
England when the news of the premature restitution of the Rump
reached him, having advanced through the snow from Coldstream to
Wooler in Northumberland on the 2nd of January, to fight Lambert at
last. He was at Morpeth on the 4th, and at Newcastle on the 5th, to
find that there was to be no necessity for fighting Lambert after
all. Lambert's army had melted away with the utmost alacrity on
orders from London, leaving their leader to submit and shift for
himself. After remaining three days at Newcastle, Monk resumed his
march, by Durham and N