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• Preface
• The Clarke Papers
• Newsletters Written In 1653 1
• Extracts From Newsletters Written In 1654 1
• An Intercepted Letter 1
• Another Letter of the Same Date From Another Hand
• Extracts From Newsletters
• A Newsletter
• Extracts From Newsletters
• Newsletters 1655. 1
• Narrative of the Expedition to San Domingo 1
• Extracts From Newsletters, 1655
• Extracts From Newsletters, 1656
• Secretary Thurloe to General Monck
• Newsletters 1
• Major Ralph Knight to General Monck
• Newsletters
• A Letter From Dr. Worth
• F. 117b. His Highness the Lord Protector’s Speech In the Painted Chamber to the Parliament Assembled the 27th of November, 1656. 1
• Newsletters
• Lieut.-gen. Brayne to General Monck
• Extracts From Newsletters 2
• Secretary Thurloe to General Monck 1
• Newsletters 1
• Secretary Thurloe to General Monck
• Newsletters 1
• The Protector’s Speech, March 31, 1657
• The Protector’s Speech, April 3, 1657
• Newsletters
• Speech of the Protector, April 8, 1657
• Newsletters
• An Officer In Flanders to General Monck 2
• Major-general Morgan to General Monck
• Newsletters
• A Letter From Flanders
• Letters From Flanders
• Vice-admiral Goodson to General Monck [?]
• A Letter From France
• A Letter From France
• Lieutenant Colonel Hughes to General Monck
• Newsletters
• A Letter From Mardyke
• Newsletters
• A Letter From Mardyke
• Newsletters
• Newsletters, 1658 1
• Major General Morgan to General Monck
• Newsletter
• Speech of the Protector, February 4, 1658
• Newsletters
• Secretary Thurloe to General Monck
• Lieut.-col. Hughes to General Monck
• Secretary Thurloe to General Monck
• Lieut.-col. Hughes to General Monck
• Newsletters
• Lieut.-col. Hughes to General Monck
• Newsletter
• Colonel Drummond to General Monck
• Lieut-col. Hughes to General Monck
• Lieut.-col. Hughes to General Monck
• Newsletter
• Major General Morgan to General Monck
• Extracts From Newsletters
• Newsletters
• Secretary Thurloe to General Monck
• Extracts From Newsletters
• Speech of the Protector, Richard Cromwell, November 19, 1658
• Mr. Downing to General Monck
• Newsletter
• Secretary Thurloe to General Monck
• Newsletters 1659 2
• Mr. Downing to General Monck
• Newsletter
• George Downing to Secretary Thurloe 1 G. D.
• Extracts From Newsletters
• Newsletters
• Letter to General Monck
• Newsletters
• Lieutenant-general Fleetwood to General Monck
• Secretary Thurloe to General Monck
• Newsletters
• Appendix
• Appendix A: Colonel Sexby’s Advice On Foreign Policy 1
• Appendix B: Edward Montagu’s Notes On the Debates In the Protector’s Council Concerning the Last Indian Expedition 1
• Appendix C: An Account of the Fall of the Protector, Richard Cromwell, In a Letter From Nehemiah Bourne.

The Protector’s Speech, April 3, 1657

The speech made by Cromwell on April 3, which is number viii. in Carlyle’s Collection, is printed in Burton’s ‘Diary,’ i. 417, and in the old ‘Parliamentary History,’ xxiii. 161. The variations of the copy in the ‘Clarke MSS.’ are as follows:—

Compared with Burton, p. 417, the Clarke MS. gives, ‘very hartely sorry’ . . . ‘some infirmity of body seized upon me’ . . . ‘and sought God’ . . . ‘I must needs bear this testimony to you that you.’

Compared with p. 418, ‘by yourselves and me hereafter’ . . . ‘and as to the libertyes of men professing godliness’ . . . ‘as a fault in them or any of them’ . . . ‘Catholique interest for the people of God’ . . . ‘civil liberties and interests’ . . . ‘I wish my sowle may not enter into his or their secrits’ . . . ‘licke Christian men, men of honour, and Englishmen’ . . . ‘if God shall count me worthy’ . . . ‘to give an accompt’ . . . ‘the late warres’ . . . ‘I could give none but it would be a wicked one if it could not comprehend’ . . . ‘by another tytle then what I doe now beare’ . . . ‘you have left me without a liberty of choyce.’

Compared with p. 419, ‘determinations’ . . . ‘and hath all good in it according to worldly comprehension (soveraigne power)’ . . . ‘memory of that in my heart, and by you I give the Parliament’ . . . ‘(except some very few things the Instrument beares testimony of itselfe)’ . . . ‘indulgence towards mee, that it be taken in tender part’ . . . omits ‘in answering’ . . . ‘of your proceeding therein’ . . . ‘seeing the wayes hedged up as it is to me I cannot.’

Compared with p. 420, ‘May be returned upon mee thus, are there such good things so well, why can you not’—‘any inducements by you to alter’ . . . ‘but it will bee candidly represented.’