ets, practices, treasons, as the
murthering of Christian Protestant Kings." This is a sample at once
of Prynne's style and of his accuracy. He does not take the trouble
to know the names of the persons he writes about, but plods, on
like a rhinoceros in blinkers.]

For eighteen days after the resuscitation of the Rump, and
notwithstanding their distinct announcement in their public
declaration that they were to "endeavour the settlement" of the
Commonwealth "without a Single Person, Kingship, or House of Peers,"
Richard still lingered in Whitehall and his Protectorship remained
nominally in existence. But the Republicans made what haste they
could to put an end to that anomaly. Their difficulty lay in their
yet unadjusted differences with the Army-officers conjoined with them
in the Restoration of the Rump. Towards the removal of these
differences something was done on the 13th of May, when the House
appointed Fleetwood "Lieutenant-General and Commander-in-chief of the
land-forces in England and Scotland" (Ireland reserved), and
associated with him Lambert, Desborough, Berry, Ludlow, Hasilrig, and
Vane, in a commission of seven empowered to nominate, for approval by
the Parliament, the commissioned officers of the whole Army. Even
with, this arrangement, however, the Army-magnates were not
satisfied; and it left other differences over, which were restated
that very day in a petition and address from the whole Council of
Officers. This Petition and Address, presented to the House by a
deputation of eighteen chief officers, headed by Lambert and
Desborough, consisted of fifteen Articles, the last three of which
contained the points of most vital debate with the pure Republicans.
In Article XIII. it was petitioned that, for the Legislative, there
should be, in addition to the Popular or Representative House, "a
select Senate, co-ordinate in power." Article XIV. required also, for
the Executive; a separate Council of State. Article XV. concerned the
Cromwell family. It did not demand a continuation of the
Protectorate, but It demanded the payment by the State of all debts
contracted by Oliver or Richard in their Protectorates, the
settlement of L10,000 a year on Richard and his heirs for ever, the
settlement of a farther L10,000 a year on Richard for his life, and
the settlement of L8,000 a year for life on "his honourable mother,"
the Protectress-dowager,--all this to the end that there might
remain to posterity "a mark