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Topic: The English Revolution

Cornet Monck to General Monck - Sir William Clarke, The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, vol. 4 [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 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901). 4 vols.

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

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Cornet Monck to General Monck

xxxi. f. 132b.Sir William Bury, Doctor Jones, and Colonel Lawrence are going for England with some proposalls from my Lord Lieutenant and Councill.

H. M.1

Dublin,
29 May 1659.

[1 ]Cornet Henry Monck to his relative the General. According to Phillips, Henry Cromwell at first thought of resistance to the combination which had overthrown his brother, and endeavoured to come to an understanding with Monck. ‘He despatched Cornet Monck to Scotland to General Monck (who came thither not till 15 days after the alteration of Government) to inform himself how he and his army stood affected to it, who returned no other answer than a copy of the letters the officers of his army had obliged him to send to Parliament.’ (Baker, p. 670.) Richard neglected to keep his brother informed; on April 26 he knew nothing of the dissolution of the Parliament (Thurloe, vii. 665). It seems that he was first officially informed of the late revolution by a letter from Lambert and other officers dated May 10. His answer is missing, but its general sense may be gathered from the letters to Richard Cromwell and Fleetwood on May 23 and 24 relative to the mission of the three persons mentioned above (ibid. vii. 674).