He had then a visitor at Dalkeith, in the person of his brother, the Rev.Mr.Nicholas Monk, minister of Kilhampton parish in Cornwall, This gentleman had come to take home his daughter, who had been living with Monk, a suitable husband having now been found for her in England.

But he had come on a little piece of business besides.

His Cornish living had been given him, about a year before, by Sir John Greenville; and Sir John had thought him the very man to be employed in bringing round Monk to the King's interest.

He had, accordingly, gone from Cornwall to London, had seen Greenville there and received instructions, and had also consulted Dr.Thomas Clarges, Monk's brother-in-law, and his trusty agent in London, Clarges, without committing himself on the special subject of the mission, easily procured a passage to Scotland by sea for Mr.Nicholas Monk.
He sailed for Leith, Aug.5.He had not run the risk of carrying with him the King's letters to Monk and Greenville; but he had got their substance by heart.

And so, having first sounded Monk's domestic chaplain, Dr.John Price, who was of Royalist proclivities too, he had opened to Monk the fact that his sole purpose In coming was not to bring back his daughter.