The House was still in a most resolute mood.

They had received assurances from Monk of his decided sympathies with them rather than with the Wallingford-House Council, and they believed still in the disinclination of many of the officers in England to follow Lambert and Desborough to extremities.

Accordingly, taking up the proposals of the Petition one by one, they formulated answers to the first and second on Oct.

10, and answers to the next three on the 11th, all in a strain of high Parliamentary authority.

At this point, however, the House interrupted its consideration of the Petition to hurry through a Bill of very vital consequence at such a juncture.