There was no lack of advices for his direction.  Through the month of his march and of the anxious sittings of the House in expectation of him, the London press had teemed with pamphlets for the crisis. The Rota, or a Model of a Free State or Equal Commonwealth was another of Harrington’s, published Jan. 9, when Monk was between Newcastle and York; and on the 8th of February, when Monk had been five days in London, he was saluted by The Ways and Means whereby an Equal and lasting Commonwealth may be suddenly introduced, also by Harrington. A Coffin for the Good Old Cause was another, in a different strain; and there were others and still others, some of them in the form of letters expressly addressed to Monk.  From the moment of his arrival at St. Alban’s, indeed, he had become the universal target for letter-writers and the universal object of popular curiosity. The Pedigree and Descent of his Excellency General Monk was on the book-stalls the day before his entry into London, and his speech to the Parliament was in print the day after its delivery.  All were watching to see what “Old George” would do.  He did not yet know that himself, but was trying to find out.  What occupied him was that question of the means towards a full and free Parliament which had been pressed upon him all along his march, and about which he had hitherto been so provokingly ambiguous.  Of all the pamphlets that were coming out only those that could give him light on this question can have been of the least interest to his rough common sense.  Now, as it happened, he could be under no mistake, after his arrival in London, as to the strength and massiveness of that current of opinion which had set in for a re-seating of the secluded members.  Since the first restoration of the Rump in May 1659, Prynne had been keeping the case of the secluded members perpetually before the public in pamphlets; and Prynne, more than any other man, had created the feeling that now prevailed.  “Conscientious, Serious, Theological and Legal Queries propounded to the twice dissipated, self-erected, Anti-Parliamentary Westminster Juncto”; “Six Important Queries proposed to the Re-sitting Rump of the Long Parliament”; “Seven Additional Queries in behalf of the Secluded Members”; “Case of the Old secured, secluded, and twice excluded Members”; “Three Seasonable Queries proposed to all those Cities, Counties, and Boroughs, whose respective citizens have been forcibly excluded,” &c.; “Full Declaration”:  such are the titles of those of Prynne’s pamphlets, the last of a long series in one and the same strain, which were delighting or tormenting London when Monk arrived.  Many of the secluded members were in town to await the issue, and the last-named of Prynne’s pamphlets (published Jan. 30) contained an alphabetical list of the whole body of them.  There were, it appears, 194 secluded members then alive, besides forty who had died since 1648.  If Monk was to do anything at all, was