and Mordaunt had been in Brussels to consult with Charles.  In idea at least the arrangements had been most formidable.  The conspiracy had its network through all England and Wales, and included not only the old Royalists, but also the more numerous Presbyterians and other baulked Cromwellians, now known collectively as “new Royalists.”  Mordaunt himself, with other friends, had undertaken Surrey; Sir George Booth was to lead in Lancashire and Cheshire, where his influence with the Presbyterians was boundless; old Sir Thomas Middleton was to head the rising in Shrepshire and Flintshire; the Earl of Stamford that in Leicestershire; Lord Willoughby of Parham that in Suffolk; Colonel Egerton that in Staffordshire; Colonel Rossiter that in Lincolnshire; Lord Herbert and Major-General Massey were to rouse Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and the Welsh border; and there were commissions from Charles to known persons in other counties, with blank commissions besides.  The Duke of Buckingham, the Earls of Manchester, Derby, Northampton, and Oxford, Lord Fairfax, Lord Bruce, Lord Falkland, Lord Falconbridge, Sir William Waller, Colonel Popham, Colonel Ingoldsby, Mr. Edmund Dunch, and many others, were all implicated, or reported as implicated.  Major-General Browne had been sounded, with a view to a rising of the London Presbyterians.  Moreover, there had been communications from Charles himself to Admiral Montague in the Baltic, begging him to declare for the cause, and bring his fleet, or at least his own ship, home for use.  There had been special devices also for bringing Monk into the confederacy.  “I am confident that George Monk can have no malice in his heart against me, nor hath he done anything against me which I cannot easily pardon,” Charles had written to Sir John Greenville on the 21st of July, authorizing him to treat with Monk, who was a distant relative of Greenville’s, and to offer him whatever reward in lands and titles he might himself propose as the price of his adhesion.  With this letter there had gone one to be conveyed by Greenville to Monk.  “I cannot think you will decline my interest,” Charles there said, adding various kind expressions, and offering to leave the time and manner of Monk’s declaring for him entirely to Monk’s own judgment.  The letter had not yet been delivered, but much was expected from it.  Meanwhile, as it was deemed essential to the success of the insurrection that Charles himself should come to England, he, Ormond, the Earl of Bristol, and one or two others, went, with all possible privacy, from Brussels to Calais.  The Duke of York was to follow them thither, or to Boulogne; and all were to embark together.[1]

[Footnote 1:  Clarendon, 868-870; Phillips, 640 and 619-651; Guizot, 191-204.]