23/50 The Harringtonian or Rota Club, one need hardly say, was no more in existence. After having been a five months' wonder, it had vanished, amid the laughter of the Londoners, as soon as the secluded members had added themselves to the Rump. Theorists and their "models" were no longer wanted.[1] [Footnote 1: Commons Journals, March 10-16; Phillips, 694; Whitlocke, IV. 1120.] Not even yet was there any positive intimation that the Commonwealth was defunct. |