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Topic: The English Revolution

Secretary Thurloe to General Monck - Sir William Clarke, The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, vol. 3 [1899]

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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 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899). 4 vols.

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

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Secretary Thurloe to General Monck

f. 157b.The French have given a great defeate to the Spaniards neere Ypres. The occasion was this.—The Prince of Ligne intended with 4000 horse and foote to releive Ypres, which the French army had strengthened with an intention to lay a close siege thereto; before they putt in their releif the French fought them, and have killed and taken almost their whole body. Sir Wm Lockhart with 250 horse went out to Newport, and brought away 400 cattell.

J. T.

This engagement was upon the third of September.1

[1 ]Alluded to in Marvell’s lines on Cromwell’s death:

  • ‘The last minute his victorious ghost
  • Gave chase to Ligny on the Belgian coast.’