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Topic: The English Revolution

Newsletter - 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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xxxi. f. 192.Yesterday a letter came from Majour Creed, that hee hath lately taken a sarjant and 6 private souldiers of the enimie, by whom hee understood that Sir George Booth was marcht to wards Liverpoole to possesse himselfe of some great gunns, with other armes and amunicion. That hee hath a 1000 horse, but for the number of his foote hee cannot learne. Other letters say that Sir George Booth hath sent a party to North Wales, another to Shropshire, another to Lancashire, and that their randezvouse is appointed at Branden Moore, 12 miles from Chester. The Lord Lambert lay at Coventrye last Wednesday, and at Whitchurch this night. Majour Creed endeavoured to engage them att Namptwich, but the enemy marcht away in a disorderly manner towards Liverpoole. Yesterday the Duke of Bucks, the Lord of Oxford, Lord Falkeland, Lord Delaware, and other persons of honour were under examinacion. The House ordered that the Militia of the severall counties should secure such persons and their armes as they shall thinke fitt. They approved of the Militia of Yorkeshire, and their raising 3000 foote and 600 horses. They gave commissions to the officers of the three new raised regiments of the Congregated Churches under commande of Sir Henry Vane, Collonel White, and Majour Generall Skippon, and past the bill for paying in the seacond moityes of States purcheses. Severall letters of the enemy are intercepted, but a clavis cannot be found to them, because they are not in figures but names. Letters from our fleet speaks them in a good and peaceable condicion. The Prince of Conde’s raising 7000 men for England is a malignant reporte.

G. M.