General George Monk - A Brief History

By january 16 54, as cromwell was settling into his new role as lord protector, there were perhaps five to ten thousand scots under arms. Plas the earl of argyle had decided he was done supporting the monarchy and stuck with the protectorate regime. And an attempt to nip the uprise in the butt, he probably came down too hard on the scots and wound up inadvertently provoking further unrest.