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Subject Area: Political Theory
Subject Area: History
Topic: The English Revolution

A Lettre from the Commissioners of the Militia of Westminster and partes adjacent, directed and delivered to Lt. Gen. Fleetwood, to bee communicated to the Councill of Officers: As also a resolve of the said Commissioners in answer to a letter directed to - 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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A Lettre from the Commissioners of the Militia of Westminster and partes adjacent, directed and delivered to Lt. Gen. Fleetwood, to bee communicated to the Councill of Officers: As also a resolve of the said Commissioners in answer to a letter directed to them from the pretended Committee of Safetie

Gentlemen,

xxxii. f. 97.Wheras wee understand there are Commissioners arrived in this place from Generall Monck to treate concerning the Restauration of the Parliament, wee being unwilling, and indeed (through the deare love of our Country) unable to omitt anythinge that may bee our duty, or in our power, conducing to soe pious and conscientious an end, most earnestly desire that you would bee instrumentall in this juncture towards the Restauration of the Parliament. Nott to trouble you att this time with such arguments for a duty (as wee conceive soe incumbent uppon you) as you have heard, or mett with from other hands, or that may concerne your countries, or our selves, butt with such onely as relate to your owne peculiar interest, wee doe nott thinke that you will find any example of any army taking civill power uppon them, which hath [not] bin forthwith debauched or broken with the weight of itt. This recommendation of our selves unto you, and of your selves unto your selves, wee thought fitt to lay before you, and Remayne

Your loving freinds,