and otherwise, he meant to remain in the City of London with his regiments, making common cause with the faithful citizens!  Guildhall rang with acclamations; and, as the news was dispersed thence through the City, confirmed by the printed copies of Monk’s letter to the Rump that were by this time in circulation, the dejection of the two last days passed into a phrenzy of joy.  Housewives ran out to Monk’s soldiers, who had been standing all day under arms, carrying them food and drink without stint; crowds of apprentices danced everywhere like delirious demons; the bells of all the churches were set a-ringing; the houses of several “fanatics” were besieged, and the windows in Barebone’s all smashed; and far into the night and into the Sunday morning the streets blazed with long rows of bonfires.  Whatever piece of flesh, in butcher’s stall or in family-safe, bore resemblance to a rump, or could be carved into something of that shape, was hauled to one of these bonfires to be flung in and burnt; and for many a day afterwards the 11th of February 1659-60 was to be famous in London as The Roasting of the Rump.[1]

[Footnote 1:  Phillips, 685-687; Skinner, 219-230; Parl.  Hist.  III. 1578-9; Letter of M. de Bordeaux, Guizot, II. 350-351; Pepys’s Diary, Feb. 11, 1659-60.]

On receiving Monk’s letter early in the forenoon of Saturday the House had temporized.  They had sent Messrs. Scott and Robinson into the City after Monk, to thank him for his faithful service of the two previous days, and to assure him “that, as to the filling up of the House, the Parliament were upon the qualifications before the receipt of the said letter, and the same will be despatched in due time.”  But at an evening sitting, with candles brought in, the House, informed by that time of Monk’s proceedings in the City, had shown their resentment by reconstituting the Commission for regulation of the Army.  They did not dare to turn Monk out; but they negatived by thirty (Marten and Neville tellers) to fifteen (Carew Raleigh and Robert Goodwyn tellers) a proposal of his partisans to make Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper one of his colleagues.  The colleagues they did appoint were Hasilrig, Morley, Walton, and Alured; and, in settling the quorum at three, they rejected a proposal that Monk should always be one of the quorum.—­Through the following week, however, efforts were still made to come to terms with Monk.  On Monday the 13th the Council of State begged him to return to Whitehall and assist them with his presence and counsels.  His reply was that, so long as the Abjuration Oath was required of members of the Council, he would not appear in it, and that meanwhile there were sufficient reasons for his remaining in the City.  Accordingly, he kept his quarters there, first at the Glass House in Broad Street, and then at Drapers’ Hall in Throgmorton Street, holding levees of the citizens and city-clergy, and receiving also visits from Hasilrig and other members of the House.  Even Ludlow,