But, on the 3rd of November, Lambert also set out for York, to join Colonel Robert Lilburne there, and gather forces to block the north of England against the possibility of Monk's invasion.[1] [Footnote 1: Whitlocke, IV.

368-369; Phillips, 663; Skinner, 131, 140, and 142-143; Guizot, II.

27-29.] Monk, on his part, when Clarges and Talbot arrived in Edinburgh (Nov.
2), and Clarges had held his first long private discourse with him, was very willing to _seem_ to negotiate, and gave Clarges his reasons.

Though he had represented his Army as unanimously with him, that was hardly the case.

The re-modelling operations of the late Rump had perturbed his Army considerably, displacing or degrading officers he liked, and inserting or promoting officers he did not want.