He told him of the King's commission to Greenville to treat with him, of the King's letter to himself, of the extent of the confederacy for the King in England, and of the hopes that Sir George Booth's rising in Cheshire would yet bring out the confederacy in its full strength.

This was late at night in Dalkeith House, when the two brothers were by themselves.

"The thinking silent General," we are told, listened and asked a few questions, but, as usual, said not a word expressing either assent or dissent.

Through the next few days he and Dr.Price, with Dr.Thomas Gumble, the Presbyterian chaplain to the Council in Edinburgh, and Dr.Samuel Barrow, chief physician to the Army in Scotland, were much together in private over a Remonstrance or Declaratory Letter, to be sent to the ruling Junto in Westminster, "the substance of which was to represent to them their own and the nation's dissatisfaction at the long and continued session of this Parliament, desiring them to fill up their members, and to proceed in establishing such rules for future elections that the Commonwealth Government might be secured by frequent and successive Parliaments." The letter had been drafted by Dr.Price, agreed to at a meeting in Dr.Price's room on Sunday after evening sermon, and signed by the four and by Adjutant Jeremiah Smith; and Adjutant Smith was waiting for his horse to go into Edinburgh, taking the letter with him for the signatures of other likely officers, when Monk returned to the room and said it would be better to wait for the next post from England.

Next day the post came, with such news that the letter was burnt and all concerned in it were enjoined to secrecy .-- The news was that Sir George Booth's Insurrection had been totally and easily crushed by Lambert (August 17-19).