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Newsletters - 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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September 6, 1659.—

xxxi. f. 207.Saturday last the House agreed uppon an engagement to bee taken by the commission officers of the Militia, vizte.: I doe declare that I doe renounce the pretended title of Charles Stuart, and the whole line of the late King James, and of any other person as a single person pretending to the governement of these nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories therunto belonging; and that I will, by the assistance of Almighty God, bee true, faithfull, and constant to this Commonwealth, against any King, single person, and House of Peeres, and every of them, &c.2 They ordered the amendementes to the bill for setling lands in Ireland uppon the adventurers and souldiers to bee reported Wednesday next. Sir George Booth his Lady lately sent a lettre to the Lord Bradshaw, desiring his mediation to the Parliament for mercy and favour to her husband. The Councill ordered his Lordshippe to send an answer, That the way for him to receive favour and mercy is to bee ingenuous, and confesse the whole truth of what hee knoweth in the late designed rebellion.1 The Portugall is excluded out of the articles betweene France and Spaine, and the Prince of Conde is to loose his command and all his priviledges. Yesterday the Members of Parliament attended the corps of the Attorney Generall to Knights-bridge.2 The fleete is come into Sole-Bay. Commissioners are gone to consult with Generall Mountague about their pay and sending a parte of them out againe.3 The Lord Stamford yesterday committed to Lambeth House. This day the House was called, their subscribing the abovesaid engagement debated, and referr’d to a committee.

G. M.

[2 ]September 3. See Commons’ Journals, vii. 774. The imposition of this oath was strongly opposed by Vane, and in consequence of his opposition it was referred to a committee, as stated at the close of this letter (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1659-60, p. 207; see also The Trial of Sir Henry Vane, 1662, 4to, p. 45; Carte, Original Letters, ii. 216).

[1 ]See Lady Booth’s letter to Sir Arthur Haslerig, September 22, 1659. MSS. of the Duke of Portland, i. 685, and also Commons’ Journals, vii. 770; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1659-60, p. 163; Guizot, Richard Cromwell, i. 466.

[2 ]Edmund Prideaux.

[3 ]See Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1659-60, pp. 163, 166, 167; Thurloe, vii. 726, 731, 744; Clarendon, State Papers, iii. 551, 564. Montague, on September 10, gave an account ‘of the business of the Sound, and of the fleet’ to the Council of State, who desired him ‘to write down the said narrative’ (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1659-60, p. 184). A copy is amongst the MSS. of Lord Sandwich, but it has never been printed.