Colonel Philip Jones, Pickering, Prideaux, St.John, Skippon, the two Stricklands, Sydenham, and Whitlocke--had merged their Republicanism in Oliverianism, had been courtiers of Cromwell, and had taken honours from him.

The Restored Rump could be described as unanimously a Republican body, therefore, only in the sense that many in it had never swerved from pure Republican principles, and that the rest were willing now to go back to such.

Be it observed, finally, that the number 122 represents the hypothetical strength of the Restored House rather than its real strength.

In the only division in the House before the day of Richard's abdication the Journals show but forty-four as present and voting; nor do the records of divisions through the whole duration of the House ever show more than seventy six as thus effectively present at any one sitting.

Only five or six times are as many as sixty noted as present and voting.