Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Bart. (appointed before his election as M.P.)
  Josiah Berners
  General Monk
  Vice-Admiral Lawson
  Alderman Love
  Thomas Tyrrell
  Lord Fairfax
  Alderman Foote
  Robert Rolle
  Slingsby Bethell.[1]

[Footnote 1:  Commons Journals, Dec. 31, 1659 and Jan. 2, 1659-60.]

The proceeding’s of the House for the first month showed no diminution of self-confidence by the late interruption.  Hasilrig, who was now the chief man in the Parliament and in the Council, was in such a state of elevation that his friends were a little alarmed.  Next in activity, and more a man of business, was Scott, whose merits were acknowledged by his appointment first to an informal Secretaryship of State (Jan. 10), and then to that office fully and formally, with charge of the foreign and domestic intelligence (Jan. 17).  He was to be for the Rump government what Thurloe had been for the Protectorate.

A good deal of the first month’s business consisted in votes of approbation for those who had been faithful during the interruption and votes condemning the Wallingford-House “usurpers” and their acts.  Monk, of course, was the hero among the faithful.  Messages of thanks were sent to him again and again, and on the 16th of January it was resolved to bestow on him and his heirs L1000 a year.  But there were thanks as well to Admiral Lawson, Whetham, and Fairfax; to Hasilrig, Scott, Neville, Morley, Walton, and the other members of the Council of State who had laboured for the good old cause in the interim; and to Sir Hardress Waller, Sir Charles Coote, and Colonel Theophilus Jones, for what they had done in Ireland.  In the censure of delinquents there was nothing very revengeful.  The Committee of Safety was styled “the late pretended Committee of Safety,” and all their doings were voted null; but an indemnity for life and estate was assured to the men themselves, and to all officers who had acted under them, on condition of present submission.  This indemnity was not so complete but that a few of the late chief’s might expect some punishment.  Accordingly, on the 9th of January Vane was brought before the House, disabled from sitting there any longer, and ordered into private life at his estate of Raby in Durham; and on the same day it was voted that Colonels Lambert, Desborough, Berry, Ashfield, Kelsay, Cobbet, Barrow, Packer, and Major Creed, all of whom were still at large, should seclude themselves in whatever houses of theirs were farthest from London.  Vane, Lambert, and the rest not having complied sufficiently, there were subsequent votes, with little or no effect, for apprehending and compelling them; and on the 18th of January Sydenham and Salway were added to the list of the reproved, the former by being expelled from the House and the latter by being suspended.  Whitlocke and the Laird of Warriston, though unanimously regarded as among the prime culprits, escaped without punishment.