The mock-names on the title-page (_Paul Giddy, Trundle Wheeler, &c._) are part of the burlesque; and it is well kept up in the tract itself, which takes the form of a letter gravely addressed to Milton and signed with Harrington's initials, "_J.

H._"[1] [Footnote 1: The Rota Club, as we already know (ante p.

555), can have had no meeting on the day supposed in the burlesque, having disappeared, with all its appurtenances, ballot-box included, at or immediately after the swamping of the old Rump by the readmission of the secluded members.

The last glimpses we have of it are these from Pepys's Diary:--_Jan._ 10, 1659-60.

"To the Coffee-house, where were a great confluence of gentlemen: viz.