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Topic: The English Revolution

[ William Clarke to the Commissioners of the Great Seale. ] - 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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[William Clarke to the Commissioners of the Great Seale.]

To the right honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seale of England.

The humble peticion of Wm. Clarke one of his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell’s secretaries now in service with his Excellency in Scotland,

Sheweth,

That your petitioner having purchas’d from the State part of S. John’s Wood parcell of the late King’s land, one Mr. John Collins unjustly claimes some part of that he hath purchased and paid for, and his conveyance sealed and inrolled, and for the same hath proferred a long bill in the Court against your peticioner and James Staresmore, Henry Curtis, and others, freinds and agents of your peticioner’s.

That the entrest and title is solely in your petitioner and the other defendants noe wayes at all concerned herin. And your petitioner being so spetiall employed in Scotland with his Excellency in the service of the State, as wilbe made appeare by oath, humbly desires that according to the votes of Parliament, all proceeding in the said suite may be stayed untill your petitioner can attend the same, for that if it should proceed now in your peticioner’s absence, the same might be much to his prejudice, none being able to make good his title and intrest to the premises in question.

And your Petitioner shall pray &c.

Wm. Clarke.