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• Preface
• The Clarke Papers
• Resolutions of the General Council of Officers 1
• Newsletters
• Letter From the Officers In England to General Monck and the Officers In Scotland 1
• Newsletters
• The Committee of Safety to General Monck 1
• General Monck to the Committee of Safety 1
• Cornet Monck to General Monck
• Reasons For Not Taking the Oath
• The Council of State to General Monck
• General Monck to the Speaker 1
• Newsletters
• Account of the Fall of the Protector Richard 1
• General Monck to the Speaker
• Cornet Monck to General Monck
• Newsletters
• Council of War At Dalkeith, July 28, 1659
• Circular Letter From General Monck to Officers Commanding In Scotland
• Newsletter
• Vice-admiral Goodson to General Monck (?)
• Newsletters
• Colonel Mayer to General Monck (?)
• Enclosure
• Colonel West to Colonel Birch (?)
• Newsletter
• Narrative of Events At Gloucester
• Newsletters
• Newsletters
• Arrests In Scotland
• Newsletter
• The Council of State to General Monck
• Newsletters
• Newsletters
• On the Bill For the Union of England and Scotland
• The Council of State to General Monck
• Newsletter
• The Officers At Derby to General Monck
• General Monck to the Commanders In Scotland
• The Speaker to General Monck
• Newsletters
• Newsletter
• Lieutenant-general Fleetwood to General Monck
• Extracts From the Order Book of General Monck
• The Officers At Whitehall to General Monck
• General Monck’s Order For a Fast
• Letter to General Monck [?]
• General Monck to Mr. Bridge and Mr. Brinsley
• Lieut.-general Fleetwood to General Monck
• General Monck to the Officers At Whitehall
• Major-general Lambert to General Monck
• Extracts From General Monck’s Order Book
• Johnston of Warriston to General Monck
• The Ministers of the Congregated Churches About London to General Monck
• The Inhabitants of Berwick to General Monck
• General Monck to the Inhabitants of Berwick
• General Monck to Lieut.-general Fleetwood
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• General Monck to Johnston of Warriston
• General Monck to Colonel Lilburne
• General Monck to a Minister
• To Mr. William Clarke [?]
• Newsletter
• Cornet Henry Monck to Mr. William Clarke [?]
• Councell of Warre At Edinburgh, November 3, 1659 1
• Instruccions For Col. Wilkes, Lieut. Col. Clobery, and Major Ralph Knight, Commissioners From the Parliament’s Army In Scotland
• General Monck to Colonel Lilburne
• General Monck to Johnston of Warriston
• Newsletter
• The Commissioners of the Army In Scotland to General Monck
• General Monck to Lieutenant-general Fleetwood
• General Monck to Lieutenant-general Fleetwood
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• Extracts From General Monck’s Order Book
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• General Lambert to the Commissioners of the Army of Scotland
• Extract From General Monck’s Order Book
• Newsletter
• A Lettre From the Commissioners of the Militia of Westminster and Partes Adjacent, Directed and Delivered to Lt. Gen. Fleetwood, to Bee Communicated to the Councill of Officers: As Also a Resolve of the Said Commissioners In Answer to a Letter Directed to
• Uppon Reading of a Letter From the Pretended Committee of State, Directed to the Said Commissioners, They Came to This Resolution:—
• General Monck’s Proceedings With the Commissioners of Scotland
• Answer of the Commissioners to General Monck
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to the Officers There
• Lieutenant-general Fleetwood to Major-general Lambert
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• To Mr. William Clarke
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• General Monck to the Commissioners of Scotland
• Dr. John Owen to General Monck
• Major-general Lambert to General Monck
• Newsletter
• The Council of Officers In Scotland to Their Commissioners In England
• General Monck to Lieut.-general Fleetwood
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• One of the Commissioners to the Officers of the Army In Scotland
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• Commission to General Monck As Commander-in-chief
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• General Monck to the Commissioners of the Army of Scotland 1
• General Monck to the Commissioners
• The Officers Under Major-general Lambert to the Council of Officers In Scotland
• Major-general Lambert to General Monck
• General Monck to Dr. John Owen
• Capt. Thos. Southwell to Lieut. John Paddon 1
• Major Cambridge to Lieut. Mouns 1
• A Letter From a Trooper At Newcastle 2
• Lieut.-col. Witter to General Monck 2
• Depositions Against Lieutenant Mould 2
• Colonel Robson to General Monck 1
• Lieut.-general Fleetwood to General Monck
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• Newsletters
• Letter to Mr. William Clarke
• Newsletter
• Lieut.-general Fleetwood to General Monck
• News From Berwick
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• The Officers of the Army In Scotland to the Officers Under General Lambert
• News From Berwick
• Major Richardson to General Monck 1
• News From Coldstream
• Major-general Lambert to General Monck
• The Representatives of the Congregated Churches About London to General Monck
• Newsletters From London
• Captain Culcheth to Mr. William Clark 4
• Major Shaftoe to General Monck 1
• The Proposalls of the Commissioners of Shires to My Lord Generall and His Officers, December 13, 1659
• The Lord Generall Monck’s Answere to the Proposalls of the Commissioners of the Shires of Scotland, Presented to Him December 13, 1659
• General Monck to the City of Edinburgh
• General Monck to Lieutenant-general Fleetwood
• Newsletter
• General Monck to the Governor of Stirling
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• Colonel Hughes to General Monck 1
• Captain Newman to General Monck 2
• Colonel Hughes to General Monck 2
• Sir Hardress Waller to General Monck
• Mr. Samuel Hammond to General Monck
• Sir Andrew Bruce of Erlishall to General Monck 1
• Colonel Hughes to General Monck 1
• General Monck to Some Ministers
• Officers At Coldstream to Sir Arthur Heselrige and Others
• The Officers At Coldstream to the Officers At Newcastle
• Newsletter
• Sir James Stewart to General Monck 2
• General Monck to Mr. Samuel Hammond
• General Monck to the Congregated Churches
• Newsletter
• The Speaker and Others to Colonel Lytcott
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• Newsletters
• Major Davison to General Monck 1
• General Monck to the Inhabitants of Northumberland 2
• The Speaker to General Monck
• The Speaker to General Monck
• Sir Andrew Bruce to General Monck 1
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert 1
• General Monck to Sir Hardress Waller [?]
• General Monck to the Council of Officers In Ireland
• General Monck to the Officers of the Irish Brigade
• Colonel Hughes to Lieutenant-colonel Monck 1
• Captain Newman to General Monck 1
• Newsletter
• Declaration Intended At Coldstream 1
• General Monck to Sir Hardress Waller
• Movements of General Monck
• General Monck to the Speaker
• The Speaker to General Monck
• The Officers In Ireland to the Speaker
• General Monck to the Mayor of Hull
• General Monck to Colonel Overton
• Colonel Overton to General Monck
• General Monck to Colonel Overton
• General Monck to the Speaker
• General Monck to Chief Justice St. John
• General Monck to Mr. John Weaver 1
• General Monck to the Speaker
• General Monck to the Commissioners For the Government of the Army
• General Monck to the Speaker
• General Monck to Mr. Rolle
• General Monck to Mr. William Morris 1
• Sir Arthur Hesilrige to General Monck 2
• General Monck to the Council of State
• General Monck to the Council of State 1
• General Monck to Sir Arthur Hesilrige
• Colonels Bethell and Fairfax to General Monck
• The Examinacion of Robert Redhead, of Essendon, In Holdernesse, Taken This 28th Day of February, 1659, Before [colonel] Fairfax
• General Monck to the Officers Commanding Regiments
• General Monck to the Officers Commanding Regiments
• Sir Arthur Hasilrige to General Monck 1
• General Monck to the Officers Commanding Regiments
• General Monck to the Officers Commanding Regiments of Horse
• Appendices
• Appendix A: Certificates Extracted From General Monck’s Order-book, Clarke Ms. Vol. Xlix.
• Appendix B: Dr. Barrow’s Notes On the Proceedings of General Monck
• Appendix C: Letters Selected From the Tanner and Carte Mss.
• Appendix D: The Case of Sir Arthur Hesilrige
• Appendix E: Letter From Mr. G. Paul to King Charles II.

The Council of State to General Monck

Sir,

li. f. 90.The Councill being informed of the greate distresse of the citty of Edinburgh, and their earnest desire that the way of the payment of their assessment may bee chainged into a more equall, easie, and insensible way, by putting burthen on some things in that citty, the Councill doth direct yow to receive and consider theire supplications and overtures of the best wayes that may bring in the cesse unto yow, and may give most ease and contentment to that citty, and gives yow power, with the concurrance of the Commissioners of the assessment in that citty, to setle that way of paying the cesse which with the consent of the magistrate and Towne Councill yow shall judge may bee most equall, easy, and satisfactory to that citty, and direct yow to countenance and assist the magistrate of that citty in the execution thereof, for the which this shalbee a sufficient warrant to yow and the Commissioners of the assessment.

Signed, in the name and by order of
the Councill of State appointed by
authority of Parliament,

Art. Hesilrige, President.

Whitehall,
15th August,
1659.