To neither of these men was any concession made, and no consideration was given to their appeals.
Hence the bulk of the nation, ignored by the Commonwealth Government, and alienated by Puritanism, accepted quite amiably--indeed, with enthusiasm--the restoration of the monarchy on the return of Charles II., and was unmoved by the royalist reaction against Parliamentary Government that followed on the Restoration.
The House of Commons itself, when Monk and his army had gone over to the side of Charles, voted, in the Convention Parliament of 1660, "that according to the ancient and fundamental laws of this Kingdom, the government is, and ought to be, by King, Lords, and Commons," and Charles II.

was received in London with uproarious enthusiasm.
The army was disbanded; a royalist House of Commons restored the Church of England and ordered general acceptance of its Prayer Book.

Puritanism, driven from rule, could only remain in power in the heart and conscience of its adherents.
To the old Commonwealth man it might seem, in the reaction against Puritanism, and in the popularity of the King, that all that had been striven for in the civil war had been lost, in the same way as after the death of Simon of Montfort it might have appeared that "the good cause" had perished with its great leader.

In reality the House of Commons stood on stronger ground than ever, and was to show its strength when James II.
attempted to override its decisions.

In the main the very forms of Parliamentary procedure were settled in the seventeenth century, to remain undisturbed till the nineteenth century.