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Topic: The English Revolution

Councell of Warre at Edinburgh, November 3, 1659 1 - 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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Councell of Warre at Edinburgh, November 3, 16591

Present:

Lo. Generall Monck.

Col. Reade.

Col. Wilkes.

Lt. Col. Clobery.Capt. Jeremiah Smyth.
Lt. Col. Reade.Capt. Philipp Pryme.
Lt. Col. Keene.Capt. William Newman.
Lt. Col. Ethelbert Morgan.Capt. Timothy Langley.
Lt. Col. John Hublethorne.Capt. George Everard.
Lt. Col. Richard Hatt.Capt. Thomas Hunt.
Major Daniell Davison.Capt. Richard Clifton.
Major James Mutloe.Capt. Edward Freere.
Major James Emerson.Capt. William Downes.
Major Francis Nicholls.Lieut. Thomas Ellis.

After reading of the lettres from the Lord Fleetwood and Lord Lambert dated 25 October,

Resolved, that Col. Timothy Wilkes, Lt. Col. John Clobery, and Major Ralph Knight be Commissioners to goe and treate with the Lord Fleetwood and officers above, and that Col. Thomas Reade, Lt. Col. Clobery, Lt. Col. Reade, Lt. Col. Keene, and Capt. Langley, or any three of them, bee a Committee to meete this afternoone att two of the clock, and prepare their instructions against to-morrow.

[1 ]The same day Monck wrote a letter to Fleetwood acknowledging his of October 25 and 29, and announcing his sending of the three commissioners named above. It is printed under the title of ‘General Monck’s last Letter to His Excellency the Lord Fleetwood,’ together with a letter from Talbot and Clarges to Fleetwood dated November 4, announcing the success of their mediation, and one from Col. John Pearson to Fleetwood dated November 5. The two former letters are reprinted in Redmayne’s Narrative, pp. 68, 69.