made Clerk of the Parliament, and that on the 27th the House appointed Thurloe and a John Thompson to be joint-secretaries of State.  There was a division on Thurloe’s appointment, but it was carried by sixty-five votes to thirty-eight.  The tellers against Thurloe were Annesley and Sir William Waller, but he was supported by Sir John Evelyn of Wilts and Colonel Hutchinson.  Thurloe’s former subordinate, Mr. William Jessop, was now clerk to the Council of State.[3]

[Footnote 1:  A single folio fly-leaf, dated March 26 in the Thomason copy, and called “The Grand Memorandum:  A True and Perfect Catalogue of the Secluded Members of the House of Commons,” &c. It was printed by Husbands on the professed “command” of one of the members (Prynne?).]

[Footnote 2:  The fly-leaf mentioned in last note gives the names of thirty-three Rumpers who did not sit in the House after the readmission of the secluded members.  Arranged alphabetically they were:—­Anlaby, Bingham, John Carew, Cawley, James Challoner, Crompton, Darley, Fleetwood, John Goodwyn, Nicholas Gold, John Gurdon, Sir James Harrington, Hallows, Harvey, Heveningham, John Jones, Viscount Lisle, Livesey, Ludlow, Christopher Martin, Neville, Nicholas, Pigott, Pyne, Sir Francis Russell, the Earl of Salisbury, Algernon Sidney, Walter Strickland, Sir William Strickland, Wallop, Sir Thomas Walsingham, and Whitlocke.  Compare with the list of the Restored Rump, ante pp. 453-455.]

[Footnote 3:  Commons Journals of dates, and generally from Feb. 21 to March 16, 1659-60, with examination of the lists of all the Committees through that period; Ludlow, 845-846; Wood’s Ath.  IV. 181 et seq. (Annesley), and III. 1087 et seq. (Morrice); Clarendon, 891 and 895.]

By the rough compact made with Monk, the House was to confine itself to the special work for which it was the indispensable instrument, and to push on as rapidly as possible, through that, to an act for its own dissolution.  The majority was such that the compact was easily fulfilled.  Six-and-twenty days sufficed for all that was required from this reinstated fag-end of the famous Long Parliament.

Naturally much of the work of the House took the form (1) of redress of old or recent injuries, and (2) of rewards and punishments.  Almost the first thing done by the House was to restore the privileges of the City of London, release the imprisoned Common Council men and citizens, and issue orders for the repair of the broken gates and portcullises.  The City and the Parliament were now heartily at one, and there was a loan from the City of L60,000 in token of the happy reconciliation.  Sir George Booth, who had been recommitted to the Tower by the Rump, was finally released, though still on security.  There were several other releases of prisoners and removals of sequestrations, and at length (Feb. 27) it was referred to a Committee to consider comprehensively the cases of all persons whatsoever then in prison