The original authority for Henry Marten's witticism is, I believe, Ludlow (810-811).] There was no lack of advices for his direction.

Through the month of his march and of the anxious sittings of the House in expectation of him, the London press had teemed with pamphlets for the crisis.

_The Rota, or a Model of a Free State or Equal Commonwealth_ was another of Harrington's, published Jan.

9, when Monk was between Newcastle and York; and on the 8th of February, when Monk had been five days in London, he was saluted by _The Ways and Means whereby an Equal and lasting Commonwealth may be suddenly introduced_, also by Harrington.
_A Coffin for the Good Old Cause_ was another, in a different strain; and there were others and still others, some of them in the form of letters expressly addressed to Monk.

From the moment of his arrival at St.Alban's, indeed, he had become the universal target for letter-writers and the universal object of popular curiosity.