The next day the nature of the new Constitution was known to all who were interested, and there was a proclamation for a Parliament to meet in February.[1] [Footnote 1: Whitlocke, IV.

377-380; Ludlow, 753-769; Letters of M.
de Bordeaux in Guizot, II.

306 and 315.] Monk was now at Coldstream, on the Tweed, about nine miles from Berwick.

On the 13th of December he had taken leave, at Berwick, of a deputation of Scottish nobles and gentlemen, headed by the Earls of Glencairn, Tullibardine, Rothes, Roxburgh, and Wemyss, who had come from Edinburgh with certain propositions and requests.

As he was going into England, leaving Scotland garrisoned but by a poor residue of his soldiers, would he not permit the shires to raise small native forces for police purposes, or would he not at least restore to the Scottish nobility and gentry the privilege of wearing arms themselves and having their servants armed?
Farther, might he not, a little while hence, sanction a general arming, so that Scotland might have the pleasure of putting 6000 foot and 1500 horse at his disposal?
The minor requests were, within certain limits, granted easily; but against the last Monk was still very wary.