On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle ( and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica ) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.

When Fleetwood and Lambert declared against the parliament, to their surprise Monck not only refused to join them but on 20 October 1659 took measures to actively oppose them.

Holles took part in the conference with George Monck ( later Duke of Albemarle ) at Northumberland House, when the Restoration was directly proposed, and with the secluded members took his seat again in parliament on 21 February 1660.

When Monck died in 1670, the Earl of Craven took command of the regiment and it adopted a new name, the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards.

The next year, Frederick Preston Rubidge designed additions to the villa, seeing it enlarged to three or four times the original size in order to accommodate the new functions and, once complete, the first Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Monck, took residence.

On the recommendation of General Monck and Cooper's wife's uncle, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, Charles appointed Cooper to his privy council on 27 May 1660. Cooper took advantage of the Declaration of Breda and was formally pardoned for his support of the English Commonwealth on 27 June 1660.

In 1971, the current municipal structure took hold when Cardwell Township, Watt Township, Medora and Wood Townships, Bala, Port Carling, Windermere and part of Monck Township were merged.

As at Alton, the majority of the prisoners ( amongst them, Colonel George Monck ) took the Covenant and entered the Parliamentary army.

Meanwhile, Monck took Stirling on 14 August and Dundee on 1 September, reportedly killing up to 2, 000 of its 12, 000 population and destroying every ship in the city's harbour, 60 in total.

He took part in the abortive royalist uprising under Glencairn in 1654, and was one of those who urged Monck to declare a free parliament in England to facilitate the restoration.

In December 1652, Lilburne took over command of the army in Scotland, but when he was not given promotion or the support he thought he needed from the Government in London to put down the Glencairn's uprising, he was happy to hand over command to General George Monck in early 1654.

He took his seat again in that assembly when the army recalled it to power ( May 1659 ), and when John Lambert expelled it ( October 1659 ) prepared to restore its authority by arms, he secretly raised men, and concerted with Francis Hacker and others to assist George Monck and Arthur Hesilrige against Lambert and his party, In his place in parliament he opposed the intended oath abjuring the Stuarts, voted for the re-admission of the secluded members, and followed the lead of Monck and Cooper, in the belief that they were in favour of a Commonwealth.

In that place now many officers were assembled: Spragge himself, the next day also Monck and several men of the admiralty board.

In the beginning of December, however, he was in such distress that he had to retire to a small island with but four or five men, and on 16 Dec. Monck informed Cromwell that Lorne was to meet his father, and would probably come over to the Protector if admitted.

It was into this atmosphere that General George Monck, governor of Scotland under the Cromwells, marched south with his army from Scotland.

The character of Monck Mason was not a real person, though he was based heavily on Thomas Monck Mason ; the story borrowed heavily from Mason's 1836 book Account of the Late Aeronautical Expedition from London to Weilburg.

** Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins his advance towards London in support of the English Restoration.

This measure was particularly aimed at hampering the shipping of the highly trade-dependent Dutch and often used as a pretext simply to take their ships ; as General Monck put it: " The Dutch have too much trade, and the English are resolved to take it from them.

Blake, recovering from an injury, rethought, together with George Monck, the whole system of naval tactics, and after the winter of 1653 used the line of battle, first to drive the Dutch navy out of the English Channel in the Battle of Portland and then out of the North Sea in the Battle of the Gabbard.

It was into this atmosphere that Monck, the governor of Scotland under the Cromwells, marched south with his army from Scotland.

After returning home from the Charlottetown Conference, John A. Macdonald asked Viscount Monck, the Governor General of the Province of Canada to invite delegates from the three Maritime provinces and Newfoundland to a conference with United Canada delegates.

On the morning of the second day Monck decided to destroy the Dutch by a direct attack and sailed to them from the southwest ; but De Ruyter in the De Zeven Provinciën crossed his line sailing to the southeast, heavily damaging the English fleet and gaining the weather gauge.

De Ruyter, more anxious than at any other moment in the battle and fearing the fight lost, raised the red flag and sailed past Rupert to attack Monck from behind.

Nothing now prevented De Ruyter from attacking Monck as the English main force was routed.

Monck justified himself to Charles in person, and his astute criticisms of the conduct of the Irish war impressed the king, who gave him a command in the army brought over from Ireland during the English Civil War.

In 1655 Monck received a letter from the future Charles II, a copy of which he at once sent to the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, who is said to have written to Monck in 1657: " There be that tell me that there is a certain cunning fellow in Scotland called George Monck, who is said to lye in wait there to introduce Charles Stuart ; I pray you, use your diligence to apprehend him, and send him up to me.

Monck led his army south from Scotland towards London, crossing the Tweed on 2 January 1660.

To overcome the difficulties, both practical and in terms of public relations, of a prospective King of England addressing his subjects from enemy territory, Monck advised Charles to relocate himself to the United Netherlands, and to date his letters as if they were posted from Breda.

However Monck had began to march south from Coldstream on the 1 January.

After Richard Cromwell's abdication, Monck gave his support to the Stuarts, and on 1 January 1660 he crossed the River Tweed into England at the village of Coldstream, from where he made a five-week march to London.

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, the general responsible for the restoration of the monarchy, lived there from 1660 until his death in 1671.

Cromwell meanwhile, leaving George Monck with the least efficient regiments to carry on the war in Scotland, had reached the river Tyne in seven days, and thence, marching 20 miles a day in extreme heat with the country people carrying their arms and equipment the regulars entered Ferrybridge on 19 August, at which date Lambert, Harrison and the north-western militia were about Congleton.

Monck allowed the Presbyterian members, ' secluded ' in Pride's Purge of 1648, to re-enter parliament on 21 February 1660, the same time breaking up, as a matter affecting discipline, the political camarillas that had formed in his own regiments.

Cromwell meanwhile, leaving George Monck with the least efficient regiments to carry on the war in Scotland, had reached the river Tyne in seven days, and thence, marching 20 miles a day in extreme heat with the country people carrying their arms and equipment the regulars entered Ferrybridge on the 19 August, at which date Lambert, Harrison and the north-western militia were about Congleton.

* 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.

Lambert was now sent, by the Committee of Safety, with a large force to meet George Monck, who was in command of the English forces in Scotland, and either negotiate with him or force him to come to terms.

* 1608 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier ( d. 1670 )

Troops stationed in Scotland under the command of George Monck eventually marched on London to restore order.

Scotland was then occupied by an English force under George Monck throughout the Interregnum and incorporated into the Puritan-governed Commonwealth.

In the chaos following the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, General George Monck allowed the members barred in 1648 to retake their seats so that they could pass the necessary legislation to allow the Restoration and dissolve the Long Parliament.

George Monck, realizing the military stood to lose power ; secretly shifted his loyalty to the Crown but as General George Monck, who had been Cromwell's viceroy in Scotland, began to march south, Lambert, who had ridden out to face him, lost support in London.

* Excluded members of the Long Parliament reinstated by George Monck 21 February 1660

* George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle ( 1608 – 1670 ), British general and politician in the Commonwealth and Restoration period

* February 14 – George Monck ’ s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards ( which later becomes Coldstream Guards )

* December 6 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier ( d. 1670 )

* August 23 – Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of the Coldstream Guards.

* January 3 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier ( b. 1608 )

* February 3 – George Monck and his regiment arrive in London.

During the civil and military unrest which followed, George Monck, the Governor of Scotland, was concerned that the nation would descend into anarchy.

** George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle ( 1608 – 1670 ), English soldier, naval officer and statesman

Despite administrative and logistic difficulties, a fleet of eighty ships, under General at Sea George Monck, the Commonwealth veteran ( after the Duke of Albemarle ), set sail at the end of May 1666.

The Committee of Safety sent Lambert with a large force to meet George Monck, who was in command of the English forces in Scotland, and either negotiate with him or force him to come to terms.