Greenville to treat with him, of the King's letter to himself, of the
extent of the confederacy for the King in England, and of the hopes
that Sir George Booth's rising in Cheshire would yet bring out the
confederacy in its full strength. This was late at night in Dalkeith
House, when the two brothers were by themselves. "The thinking silent
General," we are told, listened and asked a few questions, but, as
usual, said not a word expressing either assent or dissent. Through
the next few days he and Dr. Price, with Dr. Thomas Gumble, the
Presbyterian chaplain to the Council in Edinburgh, and Dr. Samuel
Barrow, chief physician to the Army in Scotland, were much together
in private over a Remonstrance or Declaratory Letter, to be sent to
the ruling Junto in Westminster, "the substance of which was to
represent to them their own and the nation's dissatisfaction at the
long and continued session of this Parliament, desiring them to fill
up their members, and to proceed in establishing such rules for
future elections that the Commonwealth Government might be secured by
frequent and successive Parliaments." The letter had been drafted by
Dr. Price, agreed to at a meeting in Dr. Price's room on Sunday after
evening sermon, and signed by the four and by Adjutant Jeremiah
Smith; and Adjutant Smith was waiting for his horse to go into
Edinburgh, taking the letter with him for the signatures of other
likely officers, when Monk returned to the room and said it would be
better to wait for the next post from England. Next day the post
came, with such news that the letter was burnt and all concerned in
it were enjoined to secrecy.--The news was that Sir George Booth's
Insurrection had been totally and easily crushed by Lambert (August
17-19). Colonel Egerton and other prisoners of importance had been
taken; Sir Thomas Middleton had capitulated; Sir George Booth himself
and the Earl of Derby had escaped, but only to be taken a few days
afterwards.[1]

[Footnote 1: Whitlocke, IV. 356-359; Phillips, 652; Skinner's Life of
Monk, 90-104; Wood's Ath., IV. 815; Phillips, 652-653.]

At Westminster, where the good news was received Aug. 20, and more
fully Aug. 22 and Aug. 23, all was exultation. A jewel worth L1000
was voted to Lambert, and there were to be rewards to his officers
and soldiers out of the estates of the delinquents. Since Lambert had
gone, there had been farther searches after delinquents; and, through
the rest of August and t