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Topic: The English Revolution

General Monck to the Inhabitants of Berwick - 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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General Monck to the Inhabitants of Berwick

Gentlemen,

xxxii. f. 71.I have perused yours of the 2d instant, with the copie of that you sent to my Lord Fleetwood, and I kindly thanke you for your civill respects to mee in them.1 I praise the Lord I can say with comfort I have not sought my self in any thing I ever acted, and shall humbly submit the issue of my undertakeings (as I ought) to the Lord’s disposure. I know the divisions of the Armys will but strengthen the hands of the Common Enimys of our peace, and therefore I hope God will not leave us to our owne corrupt wills and the effect of theirs, but interpose with a spirit of healeing in his wings, and owne his owne cause where hee shall finde it righteously asserted and prosecuted, as it is upon our hearts to doe, and wee desire the prayers of yow and all the people of God to assist us in it.

[1 ]The letter to Fleetwood is amongst the Clarke MSS. (xxxii. 67-69), but it is not of sufficient interest to print.