but keeping his own mouth shut.  Once, indeed, when Mr. Caryl warned him that war and bloodshed, if begun, would be “laid at his door,” he burst out against Lambert and his party, saying they had begun the war, and, if they continued in their course, he would “lay them on their backs.”  While the Independent ministers were yet in Edinburgh, doing their best, there was a more welcome advent in the person of Colonel Morgan (Nov. 8).  He had been lying ill of gout at York, but had recovered so far as to be able to come to Edinburgh as a kind of messenger to Monk from Lambert.  He delivered his message punctually enough, but told Monk he was glad to be with him again, and would follow him implicitly whatever he did, being “no statesman” himself.  Monk was vastly pleased, looking on Morgan, it is said, as worth more than all the 140 officers he had lost.  Morgan had, moreover, brought important communications from Yorkshire, which led Monk to dispatch Clarges and Talbot thither to establish an understanding with Lord Fairfax.[1]

[Footnote 1:  Phillips, 667-669; Skinner, 138-140.]

Meanwhile Monk’s three Commissioners had arrived at York and been in parley with Lambert.  Finding that the question of the restitution of the Rump was involved in their instructions, he passed them on to London, having stipulated for a truce till the result should be known.  On the 12th of November the Commissioners were in London; and on the 15th, after three days of consultation at Wallingford House, a treaty of nine Articles was agreed to, and signed by them on the part of Monk and the Army in Scotland, and by Fleetwood on the part of the Wallingford-House Council.  There was great delight in Whitehall over this result, and the Tower cannon proclaimed the happy reconciliation between Monk and the Government.  But Monk’s Commissioners had been too hasty, or had been outwitted; and Clarges, who arrived in London that day, had come too late to stop them and spin out the time.  A pledge of both parties against Charles Stuart or any single-person Government was in the forefront of the Treaty; and the rest of the Articles simply admitted Monk and the officers of the Scottish Army to a share in the Government as then going on, and in certain arrangements which the Committee of Safety and the Wallingford-House Council had been already devising on their own account.  Monk received the news at Haddington on the evening of Nov. 18; he returned to Edinburgh next day, “very silent and reserved”; but that day it was resolved by him, in consultation with some of his chief officers and with Dr. Barrow, to disown the Treaty—­not, indeed, by actual rejection of any of the Articles, but on the plea that several things had been omitted and that there must be farther specification.  For this purpose it was proposed that two Commissioners on Monk’s part should be added to the former three, and that five Commissioners from the Army in England should meet these and continue the Treaty