For eighteen days after the resuscitation of the Rump, and notwithstanding their distinct announcement in their public declaration that they were to “endeavour the settlement” of the Commonwealth “without a Single Person, Kingship, or House of Peers,” Richard still lingered in Whitehall and his Protectorship remained nominally in existence.  But the Republicans made what haste they could to put an end to that anomaly.  Their difficulty lay in their yet unadjusted differences with the Army-officers conjoined with them in the Restoration of the Rump.  Towards the removal of these differences something was done on the 13th of May, when the House appointed Fleetwood “Lieutenant-General and Commander-in-chief of the land-forces in England and Scotland” (Ireland reserved), and associated with him Lambert, Desborough, Berry, Ludlow, Hasilrig, and Vane, in a commission of seven empowered to nominate, for approval by the Parliament, the commissioned officers of the whole Army.  Even with, this arrangement, however, the Army-magnates were not satisfied; and it left other differences over, which were restated that very day in a petition and address from the whole Council of Officers.  This Petition and Address, presented to the House by a deputation of eighteen chief officers, headed by Lambert and Desborough, consisted of fifteen Articles, the last three of which contained the points of most vital debate with the pure Republicans.  In Article XIII. it was petitioned that, for the Legislative, there should be, in addition to the Popular or Representative House, “a select Senate, co-ordinate in power.”  Article XIV. required also, for the Executive; a separate Council of State.  Article XV. concerned the Cromwell family.  It did not demand a continuation of the Protectorate, but It demanded the payment by the State of all debts contracted by Oliver or Richard in their Protectorates, the settlement of L10,000 a year on Richard and his heirs for ever, the settlement of a farther L10,000 a year on Richard for his life, and the settlement of L8,000 a year for life on “his honourable mother,” the Protectress-dowager,—­all this to the end that there might remain to posterity “a mark of the high esteem this nation hath of the good service done by his father, our ever-renowned General.”  The House was not then prepared to answer the demands of Articles XIII. and XV., but only that of Article XIV. after a certain fashion.  It was agreed that day that there should be an executive Council of State, to consist of thirty-one persons, ten of them not members of Parliament, the Council to hold office till Dec. 1 next ensuing; and at that meeting and the two next the thirty-one Councillors were duly chosen.  Then, on the 21st of May, various addresses of confidence in the new Government having by this time come in from London and other parts, the Republicans felt themselves strong enough to discuss the petition of the officers, article by article, accepting most of them, but postponing the three last