of them over.  At last, Lambert showing no signs of surrender, Ingoldsby and Streater advanced, Ingoldsby ready to charge with his horse, but Streater marching the foot first with beat of drum to try the effect of a close approach.  There was the prelude of a few shots, which hurt one or two of Lambert’s troopers; but the orders were that the general fire should be reserved till the musketeers should see the pikemen already within push of the enemy.  Then it was not necessary.  Lambert’s men had been wavering all the while; his troopers now turned the noses of their pistols downwards; one troop came off entire to Ingoldsby; the rest broke up and fled.  But Lambert himself was Ingoldsby’s mark.  Dashing up to him, pistol in hand, he claimed him as his prisoner.  There was a kind of scuffle, Creed and others imploring Ingoldsby to let Lambert go; and in the scuffle Lambert turned his horse and made off, Ingoldsby after him at full gallop.  They were men of about the same age, neither over forty, but Ingoldsby the stouter and more fearless for a personal encounter.  The two horses were abreast, or Ingoldsby’s a little ahead, the rider turning round in his seat, with his pistol presented at Lambert, whom he swore he would shoot if he did not yield.  Lambert pleaded yet a pitiful word or two, and then reined in and was taken.—­On Tuesday, the 24th of April, Lambert was again in the Tower, with Cobbet, Creed, and other prisoners, though Okey and Axtell were not yet among them.  There had been a great review of the City Militia that day in Hyde Park, at which the various regiments, red, white, green, blue, yellow, and orange, with the auxiliaries from the suburbs, made the magnificent muster of 12,000 men.  The Parliament was to meet next day, and Monk and the Council of State had no farther anxiety.  Among the measures they had taken after Lambert’s escape had been an order that the engagement, already so generally signed by the Officers, pledging to agreement in whatever Parliament should prescribe as to the future form of government, should be tendered also to the private soldiers throughout the whole army.  In the troops and companies of Fleetwood’s old regiments, as many as a third of the soldiers, or in some cases a half, were leaving the ranks in consequence; but in Monk’s own regiments from Scotland only two sturdy Republicans had stepped out.[1]

[Footnote 1:  Phillips, 698-699; Skinner, 286-289; Ludlow, 873-877; Wood’s Fasti, II. 133-134; Whitlocke, IV. 407-409; M. de Bordeaux to Mazarin, Guizot, II. 415.]

So sure was the Restoration of Charles now that the only difficulty was in restraining impatience and braggartism among the Royalists themselves.  The last argument of the Republican pamphleteers having been that the Royalists would be implacable after they had got back the king, and that nothing was to be then expected but the bloodiest and severest revenges upon all who had been concerned with the Commonwealth, and some of the younger Royalists having given colour