The citizens of London and Westminster waited the issue and had no desire to interfere.

The Council of State, however, had met in Whitehall; all stray members of the House, though not of the Council, had been invited to join them; and there was thus a sufficient gathering of both parties to negotiate an agreement.

Not till the evening was this finally arranged; but then orders were sent out, in the name of the Council of State, to the regiments on both sides to go peaceably to their quarters.

The orders were most gladly obeyed.
The information that went forth to the citizens, and that was circulated over the country in letters, was that the Council of Officers "had been necessitated to obstruct the sitting of the Parliament for the present," but would themselves take all necessary charge of the public peace till there should be a more regular authority.

In fact, the Rump had been dissolved a second time after a restored session, of five months.[1] [Footnote 1: Commons Journals of date; Phillips, 661; Whitlocke, IV.
364-365; Ludlow, 711 and 723-726.].