361 cution the parliament were restor'd to thei r ,seates, Lambert was deserted by his men and fled, and M onke was marching .on southwards, p retendi ng to restore and confi rmc the parli~unent; insomuch that Coli. H utch inson, instead of raysing his country, was call' cl up to his seate in parliament. Here there were so many favourers of Lambert, Fleetewoocl, and their partakers, that the collonel l, who used to be very silent , could not now forbeare high opposition of them; in whose favo ur things were carried with such a streame, that the collonell then began to lose all hopes of set tling this poore land on any righ teous fou nda tion. It was the 26'' of December 1659 that t he parliament mctt againe. The manner of it, a nd the contest and treaty in the north betweene Monke and Lambert, are too well known to be repealed; the dissimulat ions and false protestations that Monke made are too publick: ye tt did the collonell and others suspect him, but knew not how to hinder him; for this insolent usurpation of Lambert'~ had so turn'cl the hearts of all men, that the whole nation began to sett their eies upon the king beyond the sea, and thinke a -bad settlement under him better then none a t all, but still to be under the arbitrary power of such proud rebells as Lambert. The whole house was devided into miserable factions, among whom some would then violently have sett up an oath of renuntiation of the king and his famely. The collonell, thinking it a ridiculous thing to swem·e out a man, when they had no power to defend themselves against him, vehemently oppos'd that oath, and carried it against Sr. Ar. Hcslerig and others, who as violently press'cl it; urging very truly that those oaths that had bene formerly impos'd had but multiplied the sins of the nation by periuries; instancing how Sr. Ar, and others, in Oliver's time, comming into the house, swore at their entrance they would attempt nothing in the change of that government, which, assoone as ever they were enter'd, they labour'cl to throw downe. Many other arguments lie us'd, whereupon many honest men, who thought till then he had follow'd a faction in all
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