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Extracts from General Monck’s Order Book - 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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Extracts from General Monck’s Order Book

November 8, 1659.—

xlix. f. 103.Order to Major Generall Morgan to authorize him to make his present repaire to Linlithgowe, Sterling, and into Fyff, and to tender the late Declaration of the Army to bee signed by the officers and souldiers of the respective troopes quarter’d in these parts, and such officers as refuse hee is to bringe alonge with him, and for the souldiers that refuse hee is to take away their armes and give them discharges, and to certifie to his Lordshippe the names of such officers as are absent. The troopes hee is to visitt are, Captain Prime’s att Linlithgowe, Colonel Saunders’ and Colonel Twisleton’s troope att Sterling, Captain Beke’s att Dumfermline and Mueckelhen,1 Captain Prettyes and Captain Coulson’s att Cooper, and Captain Minn’s att S. Andrewes,2 and hee is to take to his assistance Captain Deane, Captain Pryme, and Captain Coulson. Hee is to tender the Declaration himself to the officers, and appoint whome hee shall thinke fitt to [tender it to] the souldiers. To give order that the souldiers doe nott loose or imbezle them, and such troopes as have nott 50 armes to send for them.3

Order to Major John Farmer to make his present repaire into Northumberland, and to take the charge and command of the forces, both horse and foote, under the command of the Parliament quarter’d att Alnewick, Morpeth, and the parts therabouts, and to dispose and order them to the best advantage of the service.4 And all officers and souldiers belonging to the said troops or companies are to observe and follow such orders and direccions as they shall receive from him, and in his absence from Majour Dennis. And hee likewise to observe and follow such orders and direccions as hee shall receive from the Parliament, his Lordshippe, and his superiour officers.

[1 ]Almost illegible. I cannot identify the place meant.

[2 ]Of the officers named, Pretty, Coulson, and Prime belonged to the regiment of Col. Saunders; Deane, Beke, and Mynne to that of Col. Twisleton. Monck shortly afterwards gave Knight the command of the first regiment, and Clobery that of the second.

[3 ]The Report on the MSS. of Mr. Leyborne-Popham contains a letter from Col. Miles Man, at Inverness, to Monck, respecting the signature of this test by the troops under his command (p. 125). Man had succeeded Smith as governor of Inverness (Baker, p. 687).

[4 ]The troops in question were apparently four troops of horse and six companies of foot sent by Monck to surprise Berwick about the end of October 1659. That enterprise failing, they were quartered about Alnwick (Baker, p. 687). Farmer was major of Morgan’s regiment of horse, Dennis of the regiment of foot lately under Cobbett’s command.