of the king; 1.  On the authority of the doctrine laid down in the law books; 2.  Because all writs of summons abate by the king’s death in parliament; 3.  Because the parliament is called by a king regnant, and is his, the king regnant’s, parliament, and deliberates on his business; 4.  Because the parliament is a corporation, consisting of king, lords, and commons, and if one of the three be extinct, the body corporate no longer exists.—­See Loyalty Banished, and a true and perfect Narrative of what was done and spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, &c., 1650.]

[Footnote 2:  See the Declarations of the Army and the Parliament in the Journals, May 7.]

[Sidenote a:  A.D. 1659.  May 13.] [Sidenote b:  A.D. 1659.  May 17.]

officers, wrote to the speaker, congratulating him and his colleagues on their restoration to power, and hypocritically thanking them for their condescension in taking up so heavy a burthen; but, at the same time, reminding them of the services of Oliver Cromwell, and of the debt of gratitude which the nation owed to his family.[1] 2.  Lockhart hastened to tender the services of the regiments in Flanders, and received in return a renewal of his credentials as ambassador, with a commission to attend the conferences between the ministers of France and Spain at Fuentarabia. 3.  Montague followed with a letter from the fleet; but his professions of attachment were received with distrust.  To balance his influence with the seamen, Lawson received the command of a squadron destined to cruise in the Channel; and, to watch his conduct in the Baltic, three commissioners, with Algernon Sydney at their head, were joined with him in his mission to the two northern courts.[2] 4.  There still remained the army in Ireland.  From Henry Cromwell, a soldier possessing the affections of the military, and believed to inherit the abilities of his father, an obstinate, and perhaps successful, resistance was anticipated.  But he wanted decision.  Three parties had presented themselves to his choice; to earn, by the promptitude of his acquiescence, the gratitude of the new government; or to maintain by arms the right of his deposed brother; or to declare, as he was strongly solicited to declare, in favour of Charles Stuart.  Much time was lost in consultation; at length the thirst of resentment, with the lure of reward, determined him

[Footnote 1:  Whitelock, 678.]

[Footnote 2:  Thurloe, 669, 670.  Ludlow, ii. 199.  Journals, May 7, 9, 18, 26, 31.]

to unfurl the royal standard;[1] then the arrival of letters from England threw him back into his former state of irresolution; and, while he thus wavered from project to project, some of his officers ventured to profess their attachment to the commonwealth, the privates betrayed a disinclination to separate their cause from that of their comrades in England, and Sir Hardress Waller, in the interest of the parliament, surprised the castle of Dublin.[a] The last stroke