Monk first garbled his army, both officers and soldiers that he anyway had doubt of, or that he could not absolutely rule, and prevailed with the Scots to raise money for his journey into England; and leaving the principal command of those forces he left behind unto Colonel Morgan (a little man but a very great soldier), he, with a small army, but well affected to him marches for England; and having by his great taciturnity concealed his design, and temporising, fooled Scott and Robinson, two spies sent from the Rump to discover his design, he came by easy marches to London, refusing to come into the city until the other army was removed thence to other quarters pretending the hazard and danger of quarrels if both the armies should be mingled in the same quarters. As he came through the several counties, he was visited by all parties, the Lord Fairfax amongst others, who offered him his assistance as did others, but would [take] none, and he promised a free Parliament to such as desired it. So soon as he came to London, the Rump sent to him to pull down the city gates. Monk obeyed their commands and did pull down the gates; and understanding well what was designed against him by the Rumpers, who resolved to take the whole command of the army from him, and make him at most but the third part of a general, he marched of a sudden with his army out of London into Westminster, and this made the council of state as they were called, to scatter and shift for themselves; some