On the 9th the House had three sittings; and in the second of these it was announced that Monk had marched his regiments that morning into the City, that he was then at Guildhall, that he had nine of the eleven citizens already in custody, and that he had removed the posts and chains.

All being now quiet, and the Lord Mayor and Aldermen having undertaken to hold a meeting of the Common Council and give the Parliament every satisfaction, he had thought it best not to incense the City by the extreme insult of unhinging the gates and wedging the portcullises.

The Rumpers were in ecstasies.
Monk had committed himself, and was irredeemably theirs.

"All is our own: he will be honest," said Hasilrig to the friends beside him.

In their triumph, they rose once more for a moment to the full height of Republican confidence.