He sat like a ghoul among the Rumpers.

No persuasion on earth could induce him to leave.

Hasilrig stormed at him, and Vane coaxed him; but there he sat, and there he would sit! He was a member of the Long Parliament, and no other Parliament was or could be rightfully in existence but that; if they turned him out, it should only be by carrying him out by his feet and shoulders! Unwilling to resort to that method, those present got rid of the intruder by postponing their meeting to a later hour, and taking care that, when Prynne reappeared, he should be turned back.

The House that day passed an order that none should sit in it but genuine Rumpers, appointing a committee to ascertain who these were and to report on dubious cases; and the order was affixed to the doors outside.

For a day or two Prynne and others still haunted the lobbies; but at length they desisted, Prynne taking his revenge by at once printing _The Republicans' and Others' spurious Old Cause briefly and truly anatomized_, and then _One Sheet, or, if you will, a Winding Sheet, for the Good Old Cause_.[1] [Footnote 1: Guizot, I.138-141; Commons Journals, May 9, 1659; Catalogue of Thomason Pamphlets.