They had certain instructions given them, in which Monk himself "invented matter to confound their debates." They were to insist on the restoration of the Rump, or, if the Rump would not be restored, then on a full and free new Parliament.[1] [Footnote 1: Phillips, 663-667, and Skinner, 133-136.

Phillips's information about Monk and his proceedings in Scotland is very full and minute; indeed his whole account of Monk's enterprise henceforward to the Restoration, though in form only part of a continuation of _Baker's Chronicle_, is a contribution of original history rather than a mere compilation.

He was permitted, as he tells us, the use of Monk's papers and those of his agents.
This part of the book, in fact, looks like a literary commission executed for Monk.] And so, having dispatched the commissioners, Monk continued his colloquies with Clarges, such privileged persons as the physician Dr.
Barrow and the chaplain Dr.Gumble being admitted to some of them, but only Clarges fathoming Monk's intentions, and he but in part.
When the Independent ministers and other envoys arrived, there was a conference at Holyrood House at which they made speeches, Monk listening, but keeping his own mouth shut.

Once, indeed, when Mr.
Caryl warned him that war and bloodshed, if begun, would be "laid at his door," he burst out against Lambert and his party, saying _they_ had begun the war, and, if they continued in their course, he would "lay them on their backs." While the Independent ministers were yet in Edinburgh, doing their best, there was a more welcome advent in the person of Colonel Morgan (Nov.

8).