Monk, Montague, Howard, Falconbridge, Broghill, and Lockhart, had all been thought of.
Applications had been made even to the two Cromwells themselves, and particularly to Henry Cromwell.

There seems to be a reference to that fact in the close of his fine letter to the Rump Parliament.

He thanked God that he had been able to resist temptation to a course which in _him_, at all events, would have been infamous; and, though, he could not serve the Republican Parliament in _their_ "further superstructures," he could wish them well on the whole, and so feel that he was remaining as true as he could be, in such perplexed circumstances, to the cause wherein his father had lived and died.

Monk, without any such reservation, had already adhered to the Parliament, and Charles's letter, when it did reach him, was not even to remain in his own pocket till he should see his way more clearly.

Falconbridge and Howard, those two "sons of Belial" in Desborongh's esteem, had meanwhile, I believe, let it be known that they might be reckoned on by Charles, Montague and Broghill tended that way, but were in no such haste.