[Footnote 1:  Commons Journals of dates; Phillips, 678; Ludlow, 807-809; Letters of M. de Bordeaux, Guizot, II. 325-839.]

While much of this cooling of the original Republican fervency was owing to the recent experience of the public fickleness and of the necessity of not “confining Providence” too much in the decision of what to-morrow should bring forth, there was a special cause in the relations now subsisting between the House and Monk.

The House having been restored by Monk’s agency, but without that march to London which he had proposed for the purpose, the majority were by no means anxious to see him in London.  Monk, on the other hand, to whom it had been a disappointment that the House had been restored without his presence to see it done, was resolved nevertheless that the march should take place.  He was already within England when the news of the premature restitution of the Rump reached him, having advanced through the snow from Coldstream to Wooler in Northumberland on the 2nd of January, to fight Lambert at last.  He was at Morpeth on the 4th, and at Newcastle on the 5th, to find that there was to be no necessity for fighting Lambert after all.  Lambert’s army had melted away with the utmost alacrity on orders from London, leaving their leader to submit and shift for himself.  After remaining three days at Newcastle, Monk resumed his march, by Durham and Northallerton, receiving addresses and deputations by the way, and was at York on the 11th.  Here he remained five days, besieged with more addresses and deputations, but having a conference also with Lord Fairfax, followed by a visit to his Lordship at his house of Nunappleton.  Fairfax had been in arms to attack Lambert’s rear, in accordance with the understanding he had come to with Monk; and it was part of Monk’s business at York to reform the wreck of Lambert’s forces, incorporating some of them with his own and putting the rest under the command of officers who had declared for Fairfax.  He arranged also for leaving one of his own regiments at York and for sending Morgan back with two others to take charge of Scotland.  By these changes his army for farther advance was reduced to 4000 foot and 1800 horse.  Hitherto his march had been by his own sole authority; but at York he received orders from the Council of State to come on to London.  Dreading what might happen from his conjunction with the great Fairfax, and not daring to order him back to Scotland, the Rump leaders had assented to what they could not avoid.  From York, accordingly, he resumed his advance on the 16th, the country before him, like that he had left behind, still covered thick with snow.  On the 18th, at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, he met Dr. Gumble, whom he had sent on to London about ten days before with letters to the Parliament and the Council of State, and who had returned with valuable information.  Next day, at Nottingham, his brother-in-law De Clarges also met him, bringing farther information for his