But there was no money; Government in any form was at a deadlock until money could be raised; and how was that to be effected?
The Wallingford-House magnates did meditate for an instant whether they should not try to raise money by their own authority, but concluded that the experiment would be too desperate, and that, for this reason, if for no other, some kind of Parliament must be at once set up .-- But what Parliament?
Here they had not far to seek.

For the last month or more, placards on all the walls of London, the very cries of news-boys in the streets, had been telling them what Parliament.

We have several times quoted the phrase "The Good Old Cause," as coming gradually into use after Oliver's death, and passing to and fro in documents and speeches.

But no one can describe now the force and frequency of that phrase in London and throughout England in April 1659 and for months afterwards.

If two men passed you in the street, you heard the words "the good old cause" from one of them; every second or third pamphlet in the booksellers' shops had "The Good Old Cause" on its title-page or running through its text; veterans rolled out the phrase sonorously in their nightly prayers, or went to sleep mumbling it.