At all events, the time had now come when the difficulty must be faced.
On Wednesday.Jan.20, 1657-8; the members of the two Senses, such of them at least as had appeared, were duly in their places.

Those of the new House were assembled in what tad formerly been the House of Lords, Of the sixty-three that had been summoned forty-three had presented themselves and had been sworn in by the form of oath prescribed in the _Petition and Advice_, They were the forty-three whose names are marked by asterisks in the preceding list of those summoned.

When it is considered that from seven to ten of those not asterisked there (e.g.Henry Cromwell, Monk, Steele, Lockhart, and Tomlinson) would certainly have taken their places but for necessary and distant absence, and might take them yet, the House mast be called, so far, a very successful one.

It had failed most conspicuously, as had been expected, in one of its proposed ingredients.

Of the old English Peers there had come in only Visconnt Falconbridge and Lord Eure; Warwick, Manchester, Say and Sele, Wharton, even Mulgrave, were absent.