APPENDIX C.: A letter of Col. Richard Grevis to Sir Philip Stapleton. - 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.
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- Council of the Camden Society For the Year 1890-91.
- Preface.
- The Clarke Papers.
- [ Letters From a Correspondent In London to a Friend In the Army. ]
- A Narrative of the Proceedings At Saffron-walden Since the Commissioners of Parliament Came Thither Concerning the Sending of Part of This Army Into Ireland.
- [ News-letter From London. ]
- [ News-letters From Saffron-walden. ]
- [ List of the Strength of the Army In Officers and Men. ]
- The Proceedings of the Army Under the Command of His Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax, Commencing May 1st, 1647.
- [ a Circular Letter to the Commanders of the Different Regiments. ]
- Letter Sent to the Collonells Or Cheife Officers of the Respective Regiments.
- [ News-letter From Saffron Walden. ]
- Advertisements For the Managing of the Councells of the Army. D
- Letter From a
- Relation From Walden.
- Letter From London.
- [ a Letter From London. ]
- [ Narrative of the Proceedings of Skippon and the Commissioners At Saffron Walden, May 6, 7, 1647 B ].
- [ Petition Enclosed In the Preceding Narrative ].
- Copie of the Letter From the Officers to the 8 Regiments.
- At the Convention of Officers At the Church In Saffron Walden Satturday May 15: 1647.
- Severall Speeches of Major Generall Skippon and Other Officers At the 2 D Meeting In Walden.
- ( the 4 Officers Advised Together. )
- ( the Letter Read. )
- Lettre From the Troopers In Sir Robert Pies Regiment.
- Heads of Proceedings In Walden Church. Sunday, 16 May, 1647. B (the Votes of Parliament Read.)
- [a Declaration From the Agitation of Eight Regiments of Horse.]
- To General Fairfax.
- Lettre From Sexby C to the Agitators.
- A Letter to the Agitators.
- Letter to the Agitators. B
- Letter From the Agitators to the Severall Regiments.
- [ Letter From the Agitators of Horse to the Horse In the North. ]
- Letter to the Agitators. B
- Letter From the 4 Officers to Mr. Speaker.
- The Heads of a Report to Be Made to the Honourable House of Commons By Lievtennant Generall Cromwell and Collonell Fleetwood In the Name of Themselves and the Best of the Officers In the Army and Members of That House Lately Sent Downe to the Army Whose N
- [ Letter to the Agitators. ] a
- Letter From Collonell White to the Generall a
- Lettre From a [ ] to the Agitators.
- [ Sir Thomas Fairfax to Field Marshal Skippon a .]
- Lettre From Derby House to the Generall.
- [ Letter From the Committee At Derby House to Sir T. Fairfax. ]
- [ to Sir Thomas Fairfax From the Committee At Derby House. ]
- [ Sir Thomas Fairfax to the Committee At Derby House. ]
- [ News-letter From London. a ]
- [ News-letter From London. ]
- [ a Letter From Cornet Joyce. C ]
- [ a Letter From Cornet Joyce. a ]
- [ a Letter From York. ]
- [ Colonel Whalley to Sir Thomas Fairfax. ] a
- [ Letter From Collonell Whalley to Sir Thomas Fairfax. a ]
- [ News-letter From Newmarket. a ]
- [ John Cosens to Alderman Adams. ]
- [ Letter to Skippon From Some One In the Army. ]
- [ Letter From Major Twistleton to His Excellencie. ]
- [ General Fairfax to Major Twistleton. ]
- [ Letter From Sir Thomas Fairfax to Collonell Whalley. ]
- [ Letter Intend [ Ed ] to Severall Counties Concerning the Armies Engagements. ]
- [ News-letter From London. ]
- [ News-letter From London. C ]
- [ News-letter From London June 14.]
- [ News-letter From London. ]
- [ Letter From the Earle of Warwick to the Generall ].
- [ the King to Sir T. Fairfax ].
- Letter to the Gentlemen of Severall Shires.
- Letter to Collonell Whalley [ From Sir Thomas Fairfax. a ]
- Letter to Collonell Whalley From Barkhamsted.
- [ News-letter From London to Sir T. Fairfax. ]
- [ Letter From General Poyntz to His Officers ].
- [ General Poyntz to Col. Lionel Copley. ]
- [ Fairfax to the Agitators of the Regiments of the Northern Association. a ]
- Passages the First Day of the Treaty.
- A Paper Read By Mr. Scawen With These Desires:
- First Paper Delivered By Our Commissioners ( After the Alteration Made to the Exception to the 2 D Offer ).
- [ News-letter From London. ]
- [ News-letter From London. ] a
- [ Letter From the Agitators Into Wales. ]
- [ Sir Thomas Fairfax to the Speaker of the House of Commons. ]
- [ News-letter From York. ]
- [ Letter From the Agitators In Yorkshire to Fairfax. ]
- [ Letter From the Agitators In the Northern Army to Fairfax. ]
- [ Letter From Fairfax to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of York. ]
- [ Articles Against General Poyntz. ]
- Representation of the Agitators Presented At the Generall Councill of Warr July 16, 1647.
- The Propositions Read. B
- [ News-letter From Head-quarters. ]
- [ Order Appointing Certain Officers to Perfect the Proposals of the Army. ]
- [ Order For Appointing a Committee of Officers. ]
- [ Letter From London, July, 26.]
- [ Speaker Lenthall to Sir Thomas Fairfax. ]
- [ News-letter From the Army ]
- [ the Earl of Warwick to Sir T. Fairfax. ]
- [ Major Huntington to Sir T. Fairfax. ]
- The Answer of the Agitators Read. a
- The Paper Called the Agreement Read.
- Att the Committee of Officers Appointed By the Generall Councill.
- [ Desires of the Army. ]
- [ Letter to a Commander In the North of England. ]
- Letter From Col. Robert Hammond.
- Appendix.
- Appendix A.: Colonel Wogan’s Narrative.
- Appendix B.: the Examination of the Three Troopers Who Delivered the Letter of the Soldiers to Major General Skippon, April 30, 1647.
- Appendix C.: A Letter of Col. Richard Grevis to Sir Philip Stapleton.
- Appendix D.: A List of the Agitators Elected In 1647.
- Appendix E.: Proceedings In the Council of the Army Between Nov. 3 and Nov. 8, 1647.
- Report of the Council of the Camden Society, Read At the General Meeting On the 2 Nd May, 1891.
APPENDIX C.
A letter of Col. Richard Grevis to Sir Philip Stapleton.
[Though the name of Richard Graves, Greaves, or Grevis does not appear in the original list of the army under Essex, he served as colonel in his army from the winter after Edgehill (Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1644-5, p. 464). He distinguished himself at the second battle of Newbury. In May, 1645, he commanded the cavalry in the detachment of the New Model sent by Fairfax to relieve Taunton (ibid. pp. 76, 488). On April 8, 1647, the House of Commons voted that his regiment should be one of those to be kept up (Rushworth, vi. 452). He belonged later to the Presbyterian section of the royalist party, and when Charles II. was in Scotland was one of the gentlemen of his bedchamber (Clarendon State Papers, ii., 491; Carte, Original Letters, ii., 29). Taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester he was for sometime a prisoner in the Tower, but released on bail during 1652 (Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1651, pp. 422, 430; 1651-2, pp. 32, 114, 229).
The following letter written from Holmby a day or two before Joyce seized the King shows the state of feeling amongst the soldiers under the command of Greaves, who formed the King’s guard.]
Colonel Greaves to Sir Philip Stapleton.
Most honoured Sir,
I thought it necessarye to give you notice of the removal of mine and Sir Robert Pye’s regiments by a late order, of which I have sent you a coppy in the margent, by which it appeareth it is thought they have been too long under my command hereabout and that by quartering them the nearer to the armye they may the better be wrought up to the now humour of it. I cannot indeed commend the greater number of them as they are at this present, but that they have been too readily infected with the taynt of disorder, meerly by that powerful persuasion that they shall obtayne the more money for it. Some there are I am certayne and not a few who will not forsake or disobey the Parliament upon any conditions. I pray God direct and counsell the Parliament to such a speedy course that they and all honest men may be drawne from such as have other villainous and destructive designes: in this I should account it my meat and drink to be instrumentall, and to be further actually serviceable in these commands; and particularly as I am abundantly obliged to appeare more and more
Your constantly faithfull & obedient servant,
Rich. Grevis.
I beseech you present me in my real honouring of Mr. Hollis and Sir Will Lewes.
The order enclosed runs as follows:—
Sir,
By order for the Generall upon the advice of a Generall Councell of Warre you are forthwith to march with the regiment (saving that part of it which is assigned for the guardes about Holdenbye) to quarter in Papworth hundred in the Countye of Cambrige and immediately upon receipt hereof you are to send two men of the regiment to the head quarters at Bury in Suffolke for further orders by whome you are to give mee notice what time the regiment is like to come to the said quarters.
Your humble servant,
H. Ireton.
For Major Scroope or the chief officer present with Coll. Grevis his regiment of horse.
[This order, or rather this copy of the order, is undated. A similar order of Quartermaster-General Gravener for moving a foot regiment is dated 30 May, and this must be of the same date (Tanner MSS., lviii., p. 121). This fixes the date of the first letter, which is also undated.]
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