To have granted it would have been to proclaim that he was taking the Scottish nation with him in his enterprise, and so give indubitable foundation to those rumours that "the King was at the bottom of it" which were flying about already, and which it was his first care to contradict.

There must be no general arming of the Scots: he would march into England with his own little army only! Still, however, he did not move from Coldstream, but stuck there, exchanging messages with Lambert respecting the renewal of the Treaty.

It was now dead winter, and the snow lay thick over the whole region between the two Generals.
Monk's personal accommodations at Coldstream were much worse than Lambert's at Newcastle.

He was quartered in a wretched cottage, with two barns, where, on the first night of his arrival, he could find nothing for supper, and had to munch more than his usual allowance of raw tobacco instead.

But he had the means of paying his men and keeping them in good humour, while bad pay and the cold weather were demoralising Lambert's.[1] [Footnote 1: Skinner's Life of Monk, 161-168; Phillips, 674-675.] For the restitution of the Rump Parliament, Monk's march into England was to be quite unnecessary.