THE RUMP AFTER ITS SECOND RESTORATION:  NEW COUNCIL OF STATE: 
PENALTIES ON VANE, LAMBERT, DESBOROUGH, AND THE OTHER CHIEFS OF THE
WALLINGFORD-HOUSE INTERREGNUM:  CASE OF LUDLOW:  NEW ARMY REMODELLING: 
ABATEMENT OF REPUBLICAN FERVENCY AMONG THE RUMPERS:  DISPERSION OF
LAMBERT’S FORCE IS THE NORTH:  MONK’S MARCH FROM SCOTLAND:  STAGES AND
INCIDENTS OF THE MARCH:  HIS HALT AT ST. ALBAN’S AND MESSAGE THENCE TO
THE RUMP:  HIS NEARER VIEW OF THE SITUATION:  HIS ENTRY INTO LONDON,
FEB. 3, 1659-60:  HIS AMBIGUOUS SPEECH TO THE RUMP, FEB. 6:  HIS
POPULARITY IN LONDON:  PAMPHLETS AND LETTERS DURING HIS MARCH AND ON
HIS ARRIVAL:  PRYNNE’S PAMPHLETS ON BEHALF OF THE SECLUDED MEMBERS: 
TUMULT IN THE CITY:  TUMULT SUPPRESSED BY MONK AS SERVANT OF THE RUMP: 
HIS POPULARITY GONE:  BLUNDER RETRIEVED BY MONK’S RECONCILIATION WITH
THE CITY AND DECLARATION AGAINST THE RUMP:  ROASTING OF THE RUMP IN
LONDON, FEB. 11, 1659-60:  MONK MASTER OF THE CITY AND OF THE RUMP
TOO:  CONSULTATIONS WITH THE SECLUDED MEMBERS:  BILL OF THE RUMP FOR
ENLARGING ITSELF BY NEW ELECTIONS:  BILL SET ASIDE BY THE RESEATING OF
THE SECLUDED MEMBERS:  RECONSTITUTION OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT UNDER
MONK’S DICTATORSHIP.

The Rump, as restored the second time, never recovered even its former small dimensions.  On a division taken the day after its restoration there were only thirty-seven present and voting, nor in any subsequent division did the number exceed fifty-three.  This arose from the fact that Rumpers who had been conspicuous in the Wallingford-House defection now absented themselves.  On the other hand, the Journals show an accession of at least five members not visible in the previous session:  viz.  Colonel Alexander Popham, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Colonel Henry Markham, Mr. John Lassell, and Mr. Robert Cecil (second son of the Earl of Salisbury).  Ashley Cooper, not an original Rumper, came in by the recognition, Jan. 7, 1659-60, of his right to sit for Downton in Wilts.  Lassell, whose name is not on the list of the Long Parliament, may have found a seat in the same way.  Prynne and some others of the secluded members renewed their attempt to get into the House, but were again refused.[1]

[Footnote 1:  Commons Journals (Divisions and Committees) from Dec. 26, 1659 to Feb. 21, 1659-60.]

A new Council of State was, of course, appointed at once.  It was to consist, as before, of twenty-one Parliamentaries and ten non-Parliamentaries, and to hold office from Jan. 1, 1659-60 to April 1, 1660.  The following is the list, the order in each section being that of preference as shown by the numbers of votes obtained in the ballot, and the asterisk again denoting a Regicide.

  PARLIAMENTARIES.

Sir Arthur Hasilrig, Bart.  Colonel Herbert Morley Robert Wallop Colonel Valentine Walton Thomas Scott Nicholas Love Chief Justice St. John Colonel William White John Weaver Robert Reynolds Sir James Harrington Sir Thomas Widdrington Colonel George Thompson John Dixwell Henry Neville Colonel John Fagg John Corbet Thomas Challoner Henry Marten William Say Luke Robinson (a tie between him and Carew Raleigh, decided by lot).

  NON-PARLIAMENTARIES.