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also his brother, Mr. Nicholas Monk, stayed with him about two months in
the year 1659, having been sent, it is said, to sound his views as to the
restoration of Charles. In November 1659, when Monk drew his army
together from all parts of Scotland, in preparation for that famous march of
his to London, which did lead to the restoration of Charles, Dalkeith at last
relapsed into quietude. The crumbling ruins of a long stone building in
the old Chapelwell Close, a tuping off the High Street nearly opposite the
Church, are still known as ‘ Cromwell’s Orderly House.’ Cromwell had been
in Scotland for about a year, and Dalkeith had been one of his stations ; but
Monk was there so much longer and so much more familiarly, that if any one
meets an English ghost thereabouts at night, in a military costume of the
seventeenth century, he may be sure it is Monk‘s.
DALKEITH PALACE.
The present Palace was built by Anne, sister of the young Mary,’from
whom it was leased by Monk. Mary was mamed at the age of eleven to
Walter Scott of Harden, and died two years afterwards, leaving the property
to her sister Anne. Anne was’but twelve years old when she was mamed to
Charles II.’s unfortunate son the Duke of Monmouth, himself only fifteen,
and on the day of their mamage they were created Duke and Duchess of
Buccleuch. On the Duke’s death his confiscated lands &ere restored to-his
widow ; and she built the present Palace of Dalke-ith, a gloomy-looking three
sided erection, in imitation of the Palace of Loo in the Netherlands, designed
