assed between them for a great while, _and I perceive
unknown to Monk_."

_May_ 5. On report from the Council of State, a General
Proclamation adopted by the Commons, with concurrence of the Lords,
forbidding tumults, and instructing all in authority to continue in
their respective offices and exercise the same thenceforth in his
Majesty's name.

_May_ 7. Sir George Booth, Lord Falkland, Mr. Denzil Holles,
Sir John Holland, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Bruce, Sir
Horatio Townshend, Lord Herbert, Lord Castleton, Lord Fairfax, Sir
Henry Cholmley, and Lord Mandeville, chosen by the House of Commons
to be the persons to carry to his Majesty the answer of the House
to his Majesty's gracious Letter. The similar deputation from the
Lords' House was to consist of the Earl of Oxford, the Earl of
Warwick, the Earl of Middlesex, Viscount Hereford, Lord Berkley,
and Lord Brooke. Same day, on receipt from Montague of a copy of
his Majesty's letter addressed to Monk and himself, as Generals of
the Fleet, with news of the reception of the same by the Fleet on
the 3rd, Monk and Montague were authorized to answer that letter.
Thus the sixth and last of the Breda documents was finally disposed
of.--Resolved also that Thursday next should be a day of
thanksgiving in London and Westminster for the happy reconciliation
with his Majesty, and farther, "That all and every the ministers
throughout the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the
Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, do, and are
hereby required and enjoined in their public prayers to, pray for
the King's most excellent Majesty by the name of Our Sovereign
Lord, Charles the Second, by the grace of God King of England,
Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith."--Resolved
also that the King be proclaimed to-morrow.

_Tuesday, May_ 8. Proclamation of Charles accordingly in
Westminster Hall, and at Whitehall, Temple Bar, Fleet Conduit, the
Exchange, and other places, his reign to date from the death of his
father. Copies of the Proclamation to be sent to all authorities
over Great Britain and Ireland, that it may be repeated everywhere.
Also "RESOLVED, _nemine contradicente_, that the King's
Majesty be desired to make his speedy return to his Parliament and
to the exercise of his Kingly Office."[1]

[Footnote 1: These Notes, except the extract from Pepys, are compiled
fr