Notes to Chapter 167 David Norbrook, Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627–1660
(Cambridge, 1999), 415.
68 The Re-Resurrection of the Rump: Or, Rebellion and Tyranny revived (London, 1660 [1659],
December 31), broadside. See also A New-Years-Gift for the Rump (Oxford, 1660, Janu-
ary 5); Fortunate Rising, or the Rump Upward (London, 1660, c. January 20); and The
Breech Wash’d by a Friend to the Rump (Oxford, 1660, January 19).
69 For example, A Letter to General Monk expressing the sense of the well-affected people of
England, old Parlamenters and Old Puritanes (London, 1660, January 22), broadside. La-
menting his declarations in support of the Rump, the letter claims that the signers,
“The Commons of England,” cannot accept the Rump or the “Faerie Commonwealth
that has never been seen”; they urge readmission of the secluded members and a return
to the old sound foundations of King, Lords, and Commons.
70 Mr Praise-God Barbone his Petition. As it was presented to Parliament, Thursday the ninth
of February, in behalf of himself and many Thousands (London, 1659 [1660], c. Febru-
ary15). Cf. A Coffin for the Good Old Cause (London, 1660, c. February 2), which
appeals to the still-sitting Rump to fill itself up quickly since “as you are, you are not
a Competent Representative,” and then to “Lead the Van” toward a Commonwealth
settlement.
71 The Pedegree and Descent of His Excellency, General George Monck (London, 1660, c. Feb-
ruary 3) traced Monk’s descent from King Richard III, suggesting a legitimate ground
for his assumption of the throne. Several royalist pamphlets warned Monk against that
temptation: The Letter to General Monk of January 22 (see note 69) observed, “some
think there is now lying before you a sore temptation... of making your self a Protec-
tor, a King, or what you please, and it is verily thought you might do it with a far more
universal acceptance then Oliver did.”
72 For example, [S. T.], Moderation: Or Arguments and Motives Tending Thereunto, humbly
tendred to the Parliament (c. February 3), 25, claimed that “the least just blame will fall on
them, who, in seeking simply for self security, shall be led to impose in any wise on
others, and would not otherwise do it, could they but be safe in peace and equal liberty.”
73 A Letter from His Excellencie the Lord General Monck and the Officers under his Command to
the Parliament (London, 1660, February 11).
74 Samuel Pepys, Diary, ed. Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 vols (London,
1970), I, 52.
75 See, for example, A Declaration of many thousand well-affected Persons, Inhabitants in and
about the Cities of London and Westminster, expressing their adherence to this present Parlia-
ment; also their sense of a Free Parliament, so much cried up by the cavaliers (London, 1660,
February), broadside.
76 James Harrington, The Wayes and Meanes Whereby an Equal & Lasting Commonwealth
may be suddenly Introduced and Perfectly founded with the Free Consent and Actual Confirma-
tion of the Whole People of England (London, 1660, c. February 8). See also, [Harrington],
The Rota: Or, A Model of a Free-State or Equall Common-Wealth (London, 1659 [1660], c.
January 9).
77 A report had it that several members of parliament, “desperate from guilt and fanati-
cism, promised to invest him [Monk] with the dignity of Supreme Magistrate,” but he
refused to hear such “wild proposals:” Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England
III, col. 1,579.
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