RICHARD’S PROTECTORATE:  SEPT. 3, 1658—­MAY 25, 1659.

  THE ANARCHY:—­

    STAGE I.:—­THE RESTORED RUMP:  MAY 25, 1659—­OCT. 13, 1659.

    STAGE II.:—­THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE GOVERNMENT:  OCT. 13, 1659—­DEC.
      26, 1659.

    STAGE III.:—­SECOND RESTORATION OF THE RUMP, WITH MONK’S MARCH
      FROM SCOTLAND:  DEC. 26, 1659—­FEB. 21, 1659-60.

  MONK’S DICTATORSHIP, THE RESTORED LONG PARLIAMENT, AND THE
    RESTORATION.

BIOGRAPHY:—­MILTON’S LIFE AND SECRETARYSHIP THROUGH RICHARD’S PROTECTORATE, THE ANARCHY, AND MONK’S DICTATORSHIP.

CHAPTER I.

First Section.

THE PROTECTORATE OF RICHARD CROMWELL:  SEPT. 3, 1658—­MAY 25, 1659.

PROCLAMATION OF RICHARD:  HEARTY RESPONSE FROM THE COUNTRY AND FROM
FOREIGN POWERS:  FUNERAL OF THE LATE PROTECTOR:  RESOLUTION FOR A NEW
PARLIAMENT.—­DIFFICULTIES IN PROSPECT:  LIST OF THE MOST CONSPICUOUS
PROPS AND ASSESSORS OF THE NEW PROTECTORATE:  MONK’S ADVICES TO
RICHARD:  UNION OF THE CROMWELLIANS AGAINST CHARLES STUART:  THEIR
SPLIT AMONG THEMSELVES INTO THE COURT OR DYNASTIC PARTY AND THE ARMY
OR WALLINGFORD-HOUSE PARTY:  CHIEFS OF THE TWO PARTIES:  RICHARD’S
PREFERENCE FOR THE COURT PARTY, AND HIS SPEECH TO THE ARMY OFFICERS: 
BACKING OF THE ARMY PARTY TOWARDS REPUBLICANISM OR ANTI-OLIVERIANISM: 
HENRY CROMWELL’S LETTER OF REBUKE TO FLEETWOOD:  DIFFERENCES OF THE
TWO PARTIES AS TO FOREIGN POLICY:  THE FRENCH ALLIANCE AND THE WAR
WITH SPAIN:  RELATIONS TO THE KING OF SWEDEN.—­MEETING OF RICHARD’S
PARLIAMENT (JAN. 27, 1658-9):  THE TWO HOUSES:  EMINENT MEMBERS OF THE
COMMONS:  RICHARD’S OPENING SPEECH:  THURLOE THE LEADER FOR GOVERNMENT
IN THE COMMONS:  RECOGNITION OF THE PROTECTORSHIP AND OF THE OTHER
HOUSE, AND GENERAL TRIUMPH OF THE GOVERNMENT PARTY:  MISCELLANEOUS
PROCEEDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENT.—­DISSATISFACTION OF THE ARMY PARTY: 
THEIR CLOSER CONNEXION WITH THE REPUBLICANS:  NEW CONVENTION OF
OFFICERS AT WALLINGFORD-HOUSE:  DESBOROUGH’S SPEECH:  THE CONTENTION
FORBIDDEN BY THE PARLIAMENT AND DISSOLVED BY RICHARD:  WHITEHALL
SURROUNDED BY THE ARMY, AND RICHARD COMPELLED TO DISSOLVE THE
PARLIAMENT.—­RESPONSIBLE POSITION OF FLEETWOOD, DESBOROUGH, LAMBERT,
AND THE OTHER ARMY CHIEFS:  BANKRUPT STATE OF THE FINANCES:  NECESSITY
FOR SOME KIND OF PARLIAMENT:  PHRENZY FOR “THE GOOD OLD CAUSE” AND
DEMAND FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE RUMP:  ACQUIESCENCE OF THE ARMY
CHIEFS:  LENTHALL’S OBJECTIONS:  FIRST FORTNIGHT OF THE RESTORED RUMP;
LINGERING OF RICHARD IN WHITEHALL:  HIS ENFORCED ABDICATION.