His Majesty is requested to give Fithy this permission, that he may be able to fulfil his contract.

The Protector will consider himself much obliged by the kindness.
No more letters was poor Richard to write to crowned heads.

On the very day on which the two first of the foregoing were written, he appeared in Wallingford House, and ordered the dissolution of the Council of Officers according to the edict of the Parliament.

Next day it was known through all London that the question was between a dissolution of this Council of officers and a dissolution of the Parliament itself.

The day after, Thursday, April 21, there was the famous double rendezvous of the two masses of soldiery round Whitehall to try the question, the rendezvous for Richard and the Parliament utterly failing, while that for Fleetwood, Desborough, and the other rebel chiefs, flooded the streets and St.James's Park.
That night, quailing before the rough threats of Desborough, Richard and his Council yielded; and on Friday, the 22nd, the indignant Parliament knew itself to be dissolved, and Richard's Protectorate virtually at an end.