"The king was pleased to commit to me various documents intended for your eye.

We left him at Oxford, and have journeyed north with as little delay as might be in these times.

The dispatches, I believe, will speak for themselves, I have no oral instructions committed to me." So saying, Harry delivered the various documents with which they were charged.

The earl instructed the officer to see that they were well lodged and cared for, and at once proceeded to his private cabinet to examine the instructions sent him by the king.

These were in effect that, so soon as the army of the convention moved south from Dundee, he should endeavor to make a great raid with his followers upon the south, specially attacking the country of Argyll, so as to create a diversion, and, if possible, cause the recall of the Scotch army to defend their own capital.
For some weeks the lads stopped with Montrose.