).]

[Footnote 2: The fly-leaf mentioned in last note gives the names of
thirty-three Rumpers who did not sit in the House after the
readmission of the secluded members. Arranged alphabetically they
were:--Anlaby, Bingham, John Carew, Cawley, James Challoner,
Crompton, Darley, Fleetwood, John Goodwyn, Nicholas Gold, John
Gurdon, Sir James Harrington, Hallows, Harvey, Heveningham, John
Jones, Viscount Lisle, Livesey, Ludlow, Christopher Martin,
Neville, Nicholas, Pigott, Pyne, Sir Francis Russell, the Earl of
Salisbury, Algernon Sidney, Walter Strickland, Sir William
Strickland, Wallop, Sir Thomas Walsingham, and Whitlocke. Compare
with the list of the Restored Rump, ante pp. 453-455.]

[Footnote 3: Commons Journals of dates, and generally from Feb. 21
to March 16, 1659-60, with examination of the lists of all the
Committees through that period; Ludlow, 845-846; Wood's Ath. IV. 181
et seq. (Annesley), and III. 1087 et seq. (Morrice); Clarendon, 891
and 895.]

By the rough compact made with Monk, the House was to confine itself
to the special work for which it was the indispensable instrument,
and to push on as rapidly as possible, through that, to an act for
its own dissolution. The majority was such that the compact was
easily fulfilled. Six-and-twenty days sufficed for all that was
required from this reinstated fag-end of the famous Long Parliament.

Naturally much of the work of the House took the form (1) of redress
of old or recent injuries, and (2) of rewards and punishments.
Almost the first thing done by the House was to restore the
privileges of the City of London, release the imprisoned Common
Council men and citizens, and issue orders for the repair of the
broken gates and portcullises. The City and the Parliament were now
heartily at one, and there was a loan from the City of L60,000 in
token of the happy reconciliation. Sir George Booth, who had been
recommitted to the Tower by the Rump, was finally released, though
still on security. There were several other releases of prisoners and
removals of sequestrations, and at length (Feb. 27) it was referred
to a Committee to consider comprehensively the cases of all persons
whatsoever then in prison on political grounds. On the 3rd of March
particular orders were given for the discharge of the Earl of
Lauderdale, the Earl of Crawford, and Lord Sinclair, from their
imprisonment in Windsor Castle; and thus the last of the Scottish
prisoners from Worcester Batt