With some passion, Whitby suggested that it was not a time to be asking what a man declared _for_; it was enough to know what he declared _against_.

Ludlow demurred, and said it was always best to put forth a distinct political programme! He merely circulated the information; therefore, in Somersetshire and adjoining counties, and waited for further light.

Along many roads, however, especially in the midland counties, others were straggling to the appointed rendezvous.

Discharged soldiers, Anabaptists, Republican desperates of every kind, were flocking to Lambert .-- Alas! before many of these could reach Lambert, it was all over.

Hither and thither, wherever there were signs of disturbance, Monk had been despatching his most efficient officers; and, on the 18th of April, having received more exact information as to Lambert's whereabouts, he sent off Colonel Richard Ingoldsby to do his very best in that scene of action.