On Monday the 26th all the members of the Rump who were at hand met the Speaker in the Council-Chamber at Whitehall, and walked thence to Westminster Hall, the mace carried before them, and the soldiers and populace cheering as they passed.

They constituted the House and proceeded at once to business.

They had been excluded two months and fourteen days.[1] [Footnote 1: Whitlocke, IV.

380-384; Phillips, 676; Letter of M.de Bordeaux to Mazarin of Dec.

28, 1659 (English reckoning), Guizot, 318-322.].