CHAP.  I. SECOND SECTION (continued).  The Anarchy, Stage III.:  or Second Restoration of the Rump, with Monk’s March from Scotland:  Dec. 26, 1659-Feb. 21, 1659.—­The Rump after its Second Restoration:  New Council of State:  Penalties on Vane, Lambert, Desborough, and the other Chiefs of the Wallingford-House Interregnum:  Case of Ludlow:  New Army Remodelling:  Abatement of Republican Fervency among the Rumpers:  Dispersion of Lambert’s Force in the North:  Monk’s March from Scotland:  Stages and Incidents of the March:  His Halt at St. Alban’s and Message thence to the Rump:  His Nearer View of the Situation:  His Entry into London, Feb. 3, 1659-60:  His Ambiguous Speech to the Rump, Feb. 6:  His Popularity in London:  Pamphlets and Letters during his March and on his Arrival:  Prynne’s pamphlets on behalf of the Secluded Members:  Tumult in the City:  Tumult suppressed by Monk as Servant of the Rump:  His Popularity gone:  Blunder retrieved by Monk’s Reconciliation with the City and Declaration against the Rump:  Roasting of the Rump in London, Feb. 11, 1659-60:  Monk Master of the City and of the Rump too; Consultations with the Secluded Members:  Bill of the Rump for Enlarging itself by New Elections; Bill set aside by the Reseating of the Secluded Members:  Reconstitution of the Long Parliament under Monk’s Dictatorship.

CHAP.  I. THIRD SECTION.  Monk’s Dictatorship, the Restored Long Parliament, and the Drift to the Restoration:  Feb. 21, 1659-60—­April 25, 1660.—­The Restored Long Parliament:  New Council of State:  Active Men of the Parliament:  Prynne, Arthur Annesley, and William Morrice:  Miscellaneous Proceedings of the Parliament:  Release of old Royalist Prisoners:  Lambert committed to the Tower:  Rewards and Honours for Monk:  “Old George” in the City:  Revival of the Solemn League and Covenant, the Westminster Confession of Faith, and all the Apparatus of a Strict Presbyterian Church-Establishment:  Cautious Measures for a Political Settlement:  The Real Question evaded and handed over to another Parliament:  Calling of the Convention Parliament and Arrangements for the Same:  Difficulty about a House of Lords:  How obviated:  Last Day of the Long Parliament, March 16, 1659-60:  Scene in the House.—­Monk and the Council of State left in charge:  Annesley the Managing Colleague of Monk:  New Militia Act carried out:  Discontents among Monk’s Officers and Soldiers:  The Restoration of Charles still very dubious:  Other Hopes and Proposals for the moment:  The Kingship privately offered to Monk by the Republicans:  Offer declined:  Bursting of the Popular Torrent of Royalism at last, and Enthusiastic Demands for the Recall of Charles:  Elections to the Convention Parliament going on meanwhile:  Haste of hundreds to be foremost in bidding Charles welcome:  Admiral Montague and his Fleet in the Thames:  Direct Communications at last between Monk and Charles:  Greenville the Go-between:  Removal of Charles and his Court from Brussels to