[The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 CHAPTER I 2/50
The proportion of Residuary Rumpers in the whole House was even larger.
Though it had been reported by Prynne that as many as 194 of the secluded were still alive, and a contemporary printed list gives the names of 177 as available,[1] the present House never through its brief session attained to a higher attendance than 150, the average attendance ranging from 100 to 120; and I have ascertained by actual counting that more than a third of these were Residuary Rumpers.
It is strange to find among them such of the extreme Republicans as Hasilrig, Scott, Marten, and Robinson.
They left the House for a time, but re-appeared in it, whereas Ludlow and Neville and others would not re-appear--Ludlow, as he tells us, making a practice of walking up and down in Westminster Hall outside, partly in protest, partly to show that he had not fled.[2] Actually six Regicides remained in the House: viz.
Scott, Marten, Ingoldsby, Millington, Colonel Hutchinson, and Sir John Bourchier.
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