[Footnote 1:  Price, 741-744.  Whitelock, 688, 699.  Ludlow, 269, 271, 273.  Skinner, 161, 164.]

[Footnote 2:  The posts occupied by the army within the city were, “St. Paul’s Church, the Royall Exchange, Peeter-house in Aldersgate-street, and Bernet’s Castle, Gresham Coledge, Sion Coledge.  Without London, were the Musses, Sumersett-house, Whitehall, St. James’s, Scotland-yeard.”—­MS. Diary by Thomas Rugge.]

[Sidenote a:  A.D. 1659.  Dec. 8.] [Sidenote b:  A.D. 1659.  Dec. 17.]

reckoned on an authority which they no longer possessed.  The fidelity of the common soldiers had been shaken by the letters of Monk, and the declaration of Lawson.  Putting themselves under the command of the officers who had been lately dismissed, they mustered[a] in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, marched before the house of Lenthall in Chancery Lame, and saluted him with three volleys of musketry as the representative of the parliament and lord-general of the army.  Desborough, abandoned by his regiment, fled in despair towards Lambert; and Fleetwood, who for some days had done nothing but weep and pray, and complain that “the Lord had spit in his face,” tamely endeavoured to disarm by submission the resentment of his adversaries.  He sought the speaker, fell on his knees before him, and surrendered his commission.[1]

Thus the Rump was again triumphant.  The members, with Lenthall at their head, resumed[b] possession of the house amidst the loud acclamations of the soldiery.  Their first care was to establish a committee for the government of the army, and to order the regiments in the north to separate and march to their respective quarters.  Of those among their colleagues who had supported the late committee of safety, they excused some, and punished others by suspension, or exclusion, or imprisonment:  orders were sent to Lambert, and the most active of his associates, to withdraw from the army to their homes, and then instructions were given to the magistrates to take them into custody.  A council of state was appointed, and into the oath to be taken by the

[Footnote 1:  Ludlow, 268, 276, 282, 287, 289, 290, 296, 298.  Whitelock, 689, 690, 691.  Clar.  Pap. 625, 629, 636, 641, 647.]

[Sidenote a:  A.D. 1659.  Dec. 24.] [Sidenote b:  A.D. 1659.  Dec. 26.]

members was introduced a new and most comprehensive abjuration of kingship and the family of Stuart.  All officers commissioned during the interruption by any other authority than that of Monk were broken; the army was entirely remodelled; and the time of the house was daily occupied by the continued introduction of officers to receive their commissions in person from the hand of the speaker.[1]