_The Pedigree and Descent of his Excellency General Monk_ was on the book-stalls the day before his entry into London, and his speech to the Parliament was in print the day after its delivery.

All were watching to see what "Old George" would do.

He did not yet know that himself, but was trying to find out.

What occupied him was that question of the means towards a full and free Parliament which had been pressed upon him all along his march, and about which he had hitherto been so provokingly ambiguous.

Of all the pamphlets that were coming out only those that could give him light on this question can have been of the least interest to his rough common sense.