his Protectorate.  It was to cashier boldly.  Not an officer in the Army, he had said, would have interest enough, if he were once cashiered, to draw two men after him in opposition to any existing Government.  The very soul of Monk lies in that maxim, and he had been acting on it himself.  Not only, as we have seen, had he reofficered his own army in Scotland with the utmost pains before venturing on his march into England; but, since his coming into England, he had still been discharging officers, and appointing or promoting others.  He had done so while still conducting himself as the servant of the Restored Rump; and he had done so again very particularly after he had become Commander-in-chief for the Parliament of the Secluded Members.  The consequence was most apparent in that portion of the Army which was more especially his own, consisting of the regiments he had brought from Scotland, and that were now round him in London.  The officers—­Knight, Read, Clobery, Hubblethorn, &c.—­were all men accustomed to Monk, or of his latest choosing.  His difficulty had been greater with the many dispersed regiments away from London, once Fleetwood’s and Lambert’s.  Not only was there no bond of attachment between them and Monk; they were full of bitterness against him, as an interloper from Scotland who had put them to disgrace, and had turned some of them out of London to make room for his own men.  But with these also Monk had taken his measures.  Besides quartering them in the manner likeliest to prevent harm, he had done not a little among them too by discharges and new appointments.  One of his own colonels, Charles Fairfax, had been left at York; Colonel Rich’s regiment had been given to Ingoldsby; Walton’s regiment to Viscount Howard; a Colonel Carter had been made Governor of Beaumaris, with command in Denbighshire; the Republican Overton had been removed from the Governorship of Hull; Mr. Morrice had been converted into a soldier, and made Governor of Plymouth; Dr. Clarges was Commissary General of the Musters for England, Scotland, and Ireland; and colonelcies were found for Montague, Rossiter, Sheffield, and Lord Falconbridge.  When it is remembered that Fleetwood, Lambert, Desborough, Berry, Kelsay, and others of the old officers, Rumpers or Wallingford-House men, were already incapacitated, and either in prison or under parole to the Council of State, it will be seen that the English Army of April 1660 was no longer its former self.  There were actually Royalists now among the colonels, men in negotiation with the King as Monk himself was.  Still, if Monk and these colonels had even now gone before most of the regiments and announced openly that they meant to bring in the King, they would have been hooted or torn in pieces.  Even in colloquies with the officers of his own London regiments Monk had to keep up the Republican phraseology.  Suspicions having arisen among them, with meetings and agitations, his plan had been to calm them by general assurances, reminding