[Illustration: Four of Clubs. A Covenanting Scot & an English Independent differ about y^e things of this world.]
[Illustration: Four of Spades. Argyle a muckle Scotch Knaue in gude faith Sir.]
[Illustration: Four of Diamonds. Laird of Warreston an arrant Knaue Au my Saul man.]
"_The Rump roasted salt it well it stinks exceedingly._"
The long parliament, not proving itself sufficiently complacent, Colonel Pride entered the House with two regiments of soldiers, imprisoned 60 members, drove 160 into the streets, and left only 60. These were called the Rump. The name was revived in the Protectorate of Richard Cromwell, and to distinguish the two, the former was called the _Bloody Rump_, and the latter the _Rump of a Rump_.
"The few, Because they're wasted to the stumps, Are represented best by rumps." (Butler's _Hudibras_, Part iii).
"_A Covenanting Scot and an English Independent differ about y^e things of this world._"
"There was a wonderful difference, throughout their whole proceedings, between the heads of those who were thought to sway the Presbyterian Counsels, and those who govern'd the Independents, though they were equally masters of dissimulation, and had equally malice and wickedness in their intentions, though not of the same kind.... The Presbyterians submitted to their senseless and wretched clergy; whose infectious breath corrupted, and govern'd the People, and whose authority was prevalent upon their own wives, and in their domestic affairs in order to corrupt and seduce them ... whereas Cromwell and the Independents ... considered what was necessary to their main end; and then, whether it were right or wrong, made all other means subservient to it; couzen'd and deceiv'd men as long as they could induce them to contribute to what they desired; and when they would keep company with them no longer, compelled them by force to submit to what they should not be able to oppose: and so the one resolv'd, only to do what they believ'd the People would like and approve; and the other, that the People should like and approve what they had resolv'd." (_Clarendon's History of the Rebellion_, vol. iii., pp. 63-64).
"_Argyle a muckle Scotch knaue in gude faith Sir._"
Archibald Campbell, Marquis of Argyle, a zealous partisan of the Covenanters, and the opponent of Montrose. Born in 1598 he succeeded to his fathers titles in 1638. In the same year he was called to London with other Scotch Nobles, and advised the abolition of Episcopacy in Scotland. In 1641 he was created Marquis. He acquiesced in the Protectorate of Cromwell, and for this at the restoration he was committed to the Tower. In 1661 he was sent to Scotland, tried for high treason and beheaded.