CHAP.  I. SECOND SECTION.  The Anarchy, Stage I.:  or The Restored Rump:  May 25, 1659-Oct. 13, 1659.—­Number of the Restored Rumpers and List of them:  Council of State of the Restored Rump:  Anomalous Character and Position of 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 Reofficering 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.

CHAP.  I. SECOND SECTION (continued).  The Anarchy, Stage II.:  or The Wallingford-House Interregnum:  Oct. 13, 1659-Dec. 26, 1659.—­The Wallingford-House Government:  Its Committee of Safety:  Behaviour of Ludlow and other Leading Republicans:  Death of Bradshaw.—­Army—­Arrangements of the New Government:  Fleetwood, Lambert, and Desborough, the Military Chiefs:  Declared Championship of the Rump by Monk in Scotland:  Negotiations opened with Monk, and Lambert sent north to oppose him:  Monk’s Mock Treaty with Lambert and the Wallingford-House Government through Commissioners in London:  His Preparations meanwhile in Scotland:  His Advance from Edinburgh to Berwick:  Monk’s Army and Lambert’s.—­Foreign Relations of the Wallingford-House Government:  Treaty between France and Spain:  Lockhart:  Charles II. at Fontarabia:  Gradual Improvement of his Chances in England.—­Discussions of the Wallingford-House Government as to the future Constitution of the Commonwealth:  The Vane Party and the Whitlocke Party in these Discussions:  Johnstone of Warriston, the Harringtonians, and Ludlow:  Attempted Conclusions.—­Monk at Coldstream:  Universal Whirl of Opinion in favour of him and the Rump:  Utter Discredit of the Wallingford-House Rule in London:  Vacillation and Collapse of Fleetwood:  The Rump Restored a second time.