12, 1659, laughing at Harrington and his Rota-men, the public were informed that among the last "decrees and orders of the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of Oceana" had been these three:--1.

"That the politic casuists of the Coffee Club in Bow Street [had the Rota adjourned thither, or was this some other debating Club ?] appoint some of their number to instruct the Committee of Safety at Whitehall how they shall find an invention to escape Tyburn, if ever the law be restored; 2.

That Harrington's _Aphorisms_ and other political slips be recommended to the English Plantation in Jamaica, to try how they will agree with that apocryphal purchase; 3.

That a Levite and an Elder be sent to survey the Government of the Moon, and that Warriston Johnstone and Parson Peters be the men, as a couple of learned Rabbis in Lunatics." Heedless of such mockery, the Harringtonians did not cease to put forth their own pamphlets with all seriousness.

_Valerius and Publicola, or the True Form of a Popular Commonwealth extracted e puris naturalibus_ is the title of a dialogue of Harrington's, of Nov.