The War Between the Army and the Rump

Lambert insisted monk accept elections for a new parliament under terms to be decided by the council of officers. But monk said, no, first, restore the rump, and then we'll talk about the next round of elections. The stand off finally started to break monk's weight in late december but mostly because the army was finding it extraordinarily difficult to drum up the cash it needed to pay their men. This is the point when pamphlets and petitions calling for full and free elections really started flooding off the presses.