To Breda, accordingly, as Monk advised, the refugees went.

They went in the most stealthy manner, and just in time to avoid being detained by the Spanish authorities.
Before they reached Breda, however, but when Greenville could say that he had seen them safe within Dutch territory, he left them, to post back to England with a private letter to Monk in the King's own hand, enclosing a commission to the Captaincy-General of all his Majesty's forces, and with six other documents, which had been drafted by Hyde, and were all dated by anticipation "_At Our Court at Breda, this 4/14th of April 1660, in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign_." One was a public letter "To our trusty and well-beloved General Monk," to be by him communicated to the President and Council of State and to the Army officers; another was to the Speaker of the House of Commons in the coming Parliament; a third was a general "Declaration" for all England, Scotland, and Ireland; a fourth was a short letter to the House of Lords, should there be one; a fifth was for Admirals Monk and Montague, to be communicated to the Fleet; and the sixth was to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councilmen of the City of London.

Besides the originals, copies of all were sent to Monk, that he might keep the originals unopened or suppress any of them.[1] [Footnote 1: Clarendon, 896-902; Phillips, 696; Skinner, 276-280.] It could be an affair now only of a few weeks, more or less.

There, at Breda, was his swarthy, witty, good-humoured, utterly profligate and worthless, young Majesty, with his refugee courtiers round him; at home, over all Britain and Ireland, they were ready for him, longing for him, huzzahing for him, Monk and the Council managing silently in London; and between, as a moveable bridge, there was Montague and his fleet.

When would the bridge move towards the Continent?
That would depend on the newly-elected Parliament, which was to meet on the 25th.