"Nature is of God," "The Union with Scotland, as it is vulgarly discoursed of, is destructive both to the hopes of a Commonwealth and to Liberty in Scotland." There were to be other and still other publications, by Harrington or his disciples, through the rest of the year, including, for popular effect, a copper engraving of an Assembly in full session, watching the dropping of noble voting-balls into splendid urns.

But this was not all.

The Harringtonians set up their famous debating club, called _The Rota_.

"In 1659, in the beginning of Michaelmas term," says Anthony Wood, "they had every night a meeting at the then Turk's Head in the New Palace Yard at Westminster (the next house to the stairs where people take water), called Miles's coffee-house--to which place their disciples and virtuosi would commonly then repair: and their discourses about Government and of ordering of a Commonwealth were the most ingenious and smart that ever were heard, for the arguments in the Parliament House were but flat to those.
This gang had a balloting box, and balloted how things should be carried, by way of _tentamens_; which being not used or known in England before upon this account, the room every evening was very full.

Besides our author and H.Neville, who were the prime men of this club, were Cyriack Skinner, ...