CHAPTER I.

Second Section.

THE ANARCHY, STAGE I.:  OR THE RESTORED RUMP: 

MAY 25, 1859-OCT. 13, 1659.

NUMBER OF THE RESTORED RUMPERS AND LIST OF THEM:  COUNCIL OP STATE OF
THE RESTORED RUMP:  ANOMALOUS CHARACTER AND POSITION OP THE NEW
GOVERNMENT:  MOMENTARY CHANCE OF A CIVIL WAR BETWEEN THE CROMWELLIANS
AND THE RUMPERS:  CHANCE AVERTED BY THE ACQUIESCENCE OF THE LEADING
CROMWELLIANS:  BEHAVIOUR OF RICHARD CROMWELL, MONK, HENRY CROMWELL,
LOCKHART, AND THURLOE, INDIVIDUALLY:  BAULKED CROMWELLIANISM BECOMES
POTENTIAL ROYALISM:  ENERGETIC PROCEEDINGS OF THE RESTORED RUMP:  THEIR
ECCLESIASTICAL POLICY AND THEIR FOREIGN POLICY:  TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE
AND SPAIN:  LOCKHART AT THE SCENE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS AS AMBASSADOR
FOR THE RUMP:  REMODELLING AND RE-OFFICERING OF THE ARMY, NAVY, AND
MILITIA:  CONFEDERACY OF OLD AND NEW ROYALISTS FOR A SIMULTANEOUS
RISING:  ACTUAL RISING UNDER SIR GEORGE BOOTH IN CHESHIRE:  LAMBERT
SENT TO QUELL THE INSURRECTION:  PECULIAR INTRIGUES ROUND MONK AT
DALKEITH:  SIR GEORGE BOOTH’S INSURRECTION CRUSHED:  EXULTATION OF THE
RUMP AND ACTION TAKEN AGAINST THE CHIEF INSURGENTS AND THEIR
ASSOCIATES:  QUESTION OF THE FUTURE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH: 
CHAOS OF OPINIONS AND PROPOSALS:  JAMES HARRINGTON AND HIS POLITICAL
THEORIES:  THE HARRINGTON OR ROTA CLUB:  DISCONTENTS IN THE ARMY: 
PETITION AND PROPOSALS OF THE OFFICERS OF LAMBERT’S BRIGADE:  SEVERE
NOTICE OF THE SAME BY THE RUMP:  PETITION AND PROPOSALS OF THE
GENERAL COUNCIL OF OFFICERS:  RESOLUTE ANSWERS OF THE RUMP:  LAMBERT,
DESBOROUGH, AND SEVEN OTHER OFFICERS, CASHIERED:  LAMBERT’S
RETALIATION AND STOPPAGE OF THE PARLIAMENT.

The Restored Rump, which had met on the 7th of May, 1659, only forty-two strong, had very sensibly increased its numbers by the 25th, the day of Richard’s abdication.  In obedience to a summons sent out to Rumpers in the country, between forty and fifty more had by that time come in, raising the number in attendance to nearly ninety.  In subsequent months still others and others dropped in, till the House could reckon about 122 altogether as belonging to it.  The following is the most complete list I have been able to draw out for the whole of our present term of the existence of the Restored House.  Marks are added to each name, to signify the political course or resting-place of its owner from his first connexion with the Long Parliament to his present reappearance:—­

The asterisk prefixed to a name denotes a Regicide, i.e. an actual signer of the Death-Warrant of Charles I. (Vol.  III. 720).  The contraction Rec. prefixed signifies that the person was not an original member of the Long Parliament when it met in Nov. 1640, but one of the Recruiters who came in at various times afterwards to supply vacancies.  Most of these