s many as 194 of the secluded were
still alive, and a contemporary printed list gives the names of 177
as available,[1] the present House never through its brief session
attained to a higher attendance than 150, the average attendance
ranging from 100 to 120; and I have ascertained by actual counting
that more than a third of these were Residuary Rumpers. It is strange
to find among them such of the extreme Republicans as Hasilrig,
Scott, Marten, and Robinson. They left the House for a time, but
re-appeared in it, whereas Ludlow and Neville and others would not
re-appear--Ludlow, as he tells us, making a practice of walking up
and down in Westminster Hall outside, partly in protest, partly to
show that he had not fled.[2] Actually six Regicides remained in the
House: viz. Scott, Marten, Ingoldsby, Millington, Colonel Hutchinson,
and Sir John Bourchier. The majority of the Residuary Rumpers,
however,--represented by such men as Lenthall, St. John, Ashley
Cooper, Colonel Thompson, Colonel Fielder, Carew Raleigh,
Attorney-General Reynolds, Solicitor-General Ellis, and Colonel
Morley, and even by two of the Regicides mentioned (Ingoldsby and
Hutchinson),--were now in harmony with the Secluded, and by no means
disposed to abet Hasilrig, Scott, and Marten in any farther contest
for Rump principles. In other words, the House was now led really by
the chiefs of the reinstated members. Prominent among these, besides
Crewe, Knightley, Gerrard, Sir John Evelyn of Wilts, Sir William
Waller, Sir William Lewis, Arthur Annesley, Sir Harbottle Grimston,
and others named as of the Council, were Prynne, Sir Anthony Irby,
Major-General Browne, Sir William Wheeler, Lord Ancram (member for a
Cornish burgh), William Morrice, and some others, not of the
Council.--Prynne, who ought to have been on the Council, if courage
for the cause of the Secluded and indefatigable assiduity in pleading
it were sufficient qualifications, had not been thought fit for that
honour; but he was a very busy man in the House. He had taken his
place there very solemnly the first day, with an old basket-hilt
sword on; and he was much in request on Committees.--Of more
aristocratic manners and antecedents, and therefore fitter for the
Council, was Arthur Annesley, a man of whom we have not heard much
hitherto, but who, from this point onwards, was to attract a good
deal of notice. The eldest son of the Irish peer Viscount Valentia
and Baron Mountnorris, he had come i