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[A Declaration from the Agitation of eight regiments of Horse.] - Sir William Clarke, The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, vol. 1 [1901]

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The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, ed. C.H. Firth (Camden Society, 1901). 4 vols.

Part of: The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, 4 vols.

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[A Declaration from the Agitation of eight regiments of Horse.]

Walden, May 17th.

Whereas some few Officers of this Army (dissenting from the Army) have not only declared their owne dissent, but pretended also to declare the dissent of a parte of the Souldiers under their command, and thereby have done as much as in them lieth to render the Army in a divided condition. Wee, whome our severall Regiments of Horse have made choice of to act in their behalfes, doe in their names attest to your Honours from our owne certaine knowledge, that whatever dissent there may be by any particular Officers, that there is not any the least appearance of any difference or dissent among the Souldiers from the greivances presented by our Officers to your Honours; and this wee will undertake to make more fully appeare, when wee shall be called to an accompt by your Honours, or any other having authoritie to doe it, and in the meane time protest against that action of those dissenting Officers.

a Should be probably Sam. Whiting.
a Should be Thomas Shepherd, I believe.
Of the sixteen names appended to this, nine, or if the corrections suggested be accepted, eleven are also attached to the letter of April 28.
The subsequent history of some of the men signing this document is of interest.
John Brayman (or Breman) became a lieutenant in Colonel Rich’s regiment and was cashiered in February 1655, on the charge of complicity in the plot for raising a rebellion amongst the army in Scotland, in which Major-General Overton was implicated (Mercurius Politicus, pp. 5052, 5165). In June 1659, he was restored to his place in the army with the rank of Captain, became major of Rich’s regiment, and was arrested on April 13, 1660, for endeavouring to raise his soldiers in support Lambert’s intended insurrection (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1658-9, p. 289; ibid. 1660, pp. 202, 573). He was again arrested in May, 1662, and confined in the Tower and in Windsor Castle (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1661-2, pp. 376, 456). He was imprisoned in 1682 on account of suspected complicity in the Rye House plot (Luttrell’s Diary, i., 269, 286, 556.
William Prior’s career was less distinguished. He was, however, arrested in January, 1655, for taking part in the plots of the levelling party against the Protector (Mercurius Politicus, p. 5050; Thurloe, iii., 35).
Edward Sexby }of the Generall’s Regiment.
Wm. Taylor }
Wm. Allen }of the Lievtenant Generall’s Regiment.
Sam. Whitea }
Thomas Sheffeilda }of Commissary Generall Ireton’s.
Anthony Nickson }
William Prior }of Colonel Fleetwood’s Regiment.
John Caseby }
Thomas Kendall }of Collonel Whalley’s Regiment.
Wm. Young }
Tobias Box }of Colonel Butler’s Regiment.
John Willoughby }
John Brayman }of Colonel Riche’s Regiment.
Nicholas Lockyer }
Henry Gethings }of Colonel Sheffeild’s Regiment.
Thomas Diggell }