One infers that many of the members, after having begun attending, ceased to do so, from indifference, or from dislike to what was going on.[1] [Footnote 1: Commons Journals of May 13, 1659, with the recorded divisions in the Journals for the whole session.] A very considerable proportion of the effective attendance in the House must have been furnished by the presence in it of those members who were members also of the Council of State.

This body, appointed by the House, May 13-16, to be an executive for the restored Rump Government, consisted of twenty-one Parliamentary and ten non-Parliamentary members.

They were as follows, the asterisks again denoting Regicides:-- Parliamentary Members (In the order of the number of votes they obtained in the ballot).
*Sir Arthur Hasilrig, Bart.
Sir Henry Vane Colonel *Lieut.-General Ludlow Lieut.-General Fleetwood Major Richard Salway Colonel Herbert Morley *Thomas Scott Colonel Robert Wallop Sir James Harrington *Colonel Valentine Walton *Colonel John Jones Colonel William Sydenham Algernon Sidney Henry Neville *Thomas Challoner *Colonel John Downes Lord Chief Justice St.John George Thompson Lord Commissioner Whitlocke *Colonel John Dixwell Robert Reynolds Non-Parliamentary Members.
_Seven_ appointed without ballot.
Thomas, Lord Fairfax _O^1_, _R_ Major-General Lambert _O^1_, _O^2_, _R_ Colonel John Desborough _O^1_, _O^2_, _L_ Colonel James Berry _O^2_, _L_ *John Bradshaw _O^1_, _O^2[t]_, _R_ Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Bart.

_B_, _O^1_, _O^2[t]_, _R_ Sir Horatio Townshend _R_ _Three_ chosen, by ballot.
Josiah Berners _O^1_ Sir Archibald Johnstone, of Warriston _L_ Sir Robert Honeywood _R_ Fairfax was put among the non-Parliamentary ten because, though he had been a member of the Rump (a very late Recruiter, elected Feb.
1648-9), he had retired from it before its dissolution.

His nomination now to a seat in the Council was but a compliment, for he withdrew into Yorkshire.