their old officers to be disgraced and ruined?  There were waverings and slidings-off towards Lambert, perhaps a general tendency to him; but for some hours the opposed masses stood within pistol-shot of each other, Morley and Mosse refusing to yield their trust, and neither side willing to begin a battle.  The citizens of London and Westminster waited the issue and had no desire to interfere.  The Council of State, however, had met in Whitehall; all stray members of the House, though not of the Council, had been invited to join them; and there was thus a sufficient gathering of both parties to negotiate an agreement.  Not till the evening was this finally arranged; but then orders were sent out, in the name of the Council of State, to the regiments on both sides to go peaceably to their quarters.  The orders were most gladly obeyed.  The information that went forth to the citizens, and that was circulated over the country in letters, was that the Council of Officers “had been necessitated to obstruct the sitting of the Parliament for the present,” but would themselves take all necessary charge of the public peace till there should be a more regular authority.  In fact, the Rump had been dissolved a second time after a restored session, of five months.[1]

[Footnote 1:  Commons Journals of date; Phillips, 661; Whitlocke, IV. 364-365; Ludlow, 711 and 723-726.]

CHAPTER I.

Second Section (continued).

THE ANARCHY, STAGE II.:  OR THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE INTERREGNUM:  OCT. 13, 1659-DEC. 26, 1659.

THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE GOVERNMENT:  ITS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY: 
BEHAVIOUR OF LUDLOW AND OTHER LEADING REPUBLICANS:  DEATH OF
BRADSHAW.—­ARMY-ARRANGEMENTS OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT:  FLEETWOOD,
LAMBERT, AND DESBOROUGH THE MILITARY CHIEFS:  DECLARED CHAMPIONSHIP OF
THE RUMP BY MONK IN SCOTLAND:  NEGOTIATIONS OPENED WITH MONK, AND
LAMBERT SENT NORTH TO OPPOSE HIM:  MONK’S MOCK TREATY WITH LAMBERT AND
THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE GOVERNMENT THROUGH COMMISSIONERS IN LONDON:  HIS
PREPARATIONS MEANWHILE IN SCOTLAND:  HIS ADVANCE FROM EDINBURGH TO
BERWICK:  MONK’S ARMY AND LAMBERT’S.—­FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE
WALLINGFORD-HOUSE GOVERNMENT:  TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND SPAIN: 
LOCKHART:  CHARLES II.  AT FONTARABIA:  GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT OF HIS
CHANCES IN ENGLAND.—­DISCUSSIONS OF THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE GOVERNMENT
AS TO THE FUTURE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH:  THE VANE PARTY
AND THE WHITLOCKE PARTY IN THESE DISCUSSIONS:  JOHNSTONE OF WARRISTON,
THE HARRINGTONIANS, AND LUDLOW:  ATTEMPTED CONCLUSIONS.—­MONK AT
COLDSTREAM:  UNIVERSAL WHIRL OF OPINION IN FAVOUR OF HIM AND THE
RUMP:  UTTER DISCREDIT OF THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE RULE IN LONDON: 
VACILLATION AND COLLAPSE OF FLEETWOOD:  THE RUMP RESTORED A SECOND
TIME.