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Topic: The English Revolution

[ To Lieut.-Col. Cobbett ] - Sir William Clarke, The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, vol. 2 [1894]

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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, 1894). 4 vols.

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

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[To Lieut.-Col. Cobbett]

Sir,

I am commanded by the Generall to desire you to have a speciall care that all civility bee used towards the person of the Kinge in the ordering of that businesse committed to your charge, and that hee have such accomodations whither hee is to remove, as shall bee suitable to the present occasion, that there may bee noe complaint there is any want of conveniencies fitting for him.b

A list of such horse and foote that are to meet at the Randevouz, 1 Dec., 1648.a

Troopes.
12{ The Lord Generall }Horse
{ Col. Whalley }
5Commissary Generall }
4Col. Fleetwood’s }
5Col. Rich’s }
2Lt. Generall’s }
1Col. Harrison }
29 troopes.

2 troopes Col. Okey’s Dragoones.

Regiments.
Col. Hewson }Foote.
Col. Pride }
Col. Deane }
Lt. Col. Cooke }
Lt. Col. Ashfeild }
Companies.
3Col. Inglesby.
5Col. Barksted.
1Adjutant Generall.
1Col. Whitchcott.

Two regiments of horse and 17 troopes.

Two troopes of diagoons. Five regiments and ten companies of foot.

[b ]Probably from John Rushworth.

[a ]Before the march of the army to London.