[Footnote 1:  Price, 749-753.  Skinner, 196, 200, 205.  Journals, Jan. 6.]

[Footnote 2:  Ibid. 754.  Kennet’s Register, 32.]

[Sidenote a:  A.D. 1660.  Jan. 12.] [Sidenote b:  A.D. 1660.  Jan. 16.] [Sidenote c:  A.D. 1660.  Jan. 19.] [Sidenote d:  A.D. 1660.  Jan. 23.]

As he advanced, he received at every stage addresses from boroughs, cities, and counties, praying him to restore the excluded members, and to procure a free and a full parliament.  With much affectation of humility, Monk referred the deputies to the two delegates of the supreme power, who haughtily rebuked them for their officiousness, while the friends of Monk laboured to keep alive their hopes by remote hints and obscure predictions.[1]

To lull the jealousy of the parliament, Monk had taken with him from York no more than five thousand men, a force considerably inferior to that which was quartered in London and Westminster.  But from St. Alban’s he wrote[a] to the speaker, requesting that five of the regiments in the capital might be removed before his arrival, alleging the danger of quarrels and seduction, if his troops were allowed to mix with those who had been so recently engaged in rebellion.  The order was instantly made; but the men refused[b] to obey.  Why, they asked, were they to leave their quarters for the accommodation of strangers?  Why were they to be sent from the capital, while their pay was several weeks in arrear?  The royalists laboured to inflame the mutineers, and Lambert was on the watch, prepared to place himself at their head; but the distribution of a sum of money appeased their murmurs; they consented to march; and the next morning[c] the general entered at the head of his army, and proceeded to the quarters assigned to him at Whitehall.[2]

Soon after his arrival, he was invited to attend and

[Footnote 1:  Price, 754.  Merc.  Polit.  No. 604.  Philips, 595.  Journals, Jan. 16.]

[Footnote 2:  Price, 755, 757, 758.  Jour.  Jan. 30.  Skinner, 219-221.  Philips, 594, 595, 596.  Clar.  Pap. iii. 666, 668.  Pepys, i. 19, 21.]

[Sidenote a:  A.D. 1660.  Jan. 28.] [Sidenote b:  A.D. 1660.  Feb. 2.] [Sidenote c:  A.D. 1660.  Feb. 3.]

receive the thanks of the house.  A chair had been placed for him within the bar:  he stood uncovered behind it; and, in reply[a] to the speaker, extenuated his own services, related the answers which he had given to the addresses, warned the parliament against a multiplicity of oaths and engagements, prayed them not to give any share of power to the Cavaliers or fanatics, and recommended to their care the settlement of Ireland and the administration of justice in Scotland.  If there was much in this speech to please, there was also much that gave offence.  Scot observed that the servant had already learned to give directions to his masters.[1]