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Extract 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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Extract from General Monck’s Order Book

xlix. f. 104.Order to Lieutenant Colonel John Hublethorne, Commissary Fleetwood, Captain Jeremiah Smyth, Captain William Downes, Mr. Thomas Gumble, Mr. John Price, and Mr. William Clarke, that wheras there may bee severall lettres come by the post which may bee of dangerous consequence if they should bee permitted to passe to the persons to whome they are directed, to aucthorize them, or any three or more of them, to search and peruse such lettres as shall from time to time come by the post, or such as goe for London, or other parts of England, and nott to permitt any others to bee present att the viewing and perusall of them, and to make stoppe of such as they shall thinke fitt.