The Rump, amidst the ridicule and contempt of the populace, was again expelled by military force on the 13th of October 1659.  The officers were divided in opinion, some supporting, others, headed by Lambert, opposing the Parliament; but vis major, or superior cunning, was on the side of Lambert, who placed his soldiers in the streets leading to Westminster Hall, and when the Speaker came in his coach, his horses were turned, and he was conducted very civilly home.  The regiments that should have resisted, “observing that they were exposed to derision,” peaceably returned to their quarters.

Monk, in the meanwhile, was advancing with his army from Edinburgh, and affected not to approve of the force put upon Parliament.  The feeling for a Free Parliament increased in strength and violence every day.  The Rump was for a third time restored in December by the section of the London army that supported its claim.  Lenthall was once more in the chair, and the journals were resumed without the least notice of past occurrences.  Monk, having reached London amidst great excitement, went down to the House and delivered an ambiguous speech.  Up to the last Monk seems to have remained uncertain what to do.  The temper of the City, which was fiercely anti-Rump, may have decided him.  At all events he invited the secluded, that is the expelled, members of the old Long Parliament to take their seats along with the others, and in a formal declaration addressed to Parliament, dated the 21st of February 1660, he counselled it among other things to dissolve legally “in order to make way for a succession of Parliaments.”  In a word, Monk declared for a Free Parliament.  Great indeed were the national rejoicings.

On the 16th of March 1660 a Bill was read a third time dissolving the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, 3rd November 1640, and for the calling and holding of a Parliament at Westminster on the 25th of April 1660.  This time an end was really made of the Rump, though for many a long day there were parliamentary pedants to be found in the land ready to maintain that the Long Parliament had never been legally dissolved and still de jure existed; so long, I presume, as any single member of it remained alive.

Marvell was not a “Rumper,” but on the 2nd of April 1660 he was again elected for Hull to sit in what is usually called the Convention Parliament.  John Ramsden was returned at the head of the poll with 227 votes, Marvell receiving 141.  There were four defeated candidates.

With this Convention Parliament begins Marvell’s remarkable correspondence, on fine folio sheets of paper, with the corporation of Hull, whose faithful servant he remained until death parted them in 1678.