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General Monck to the Commissioners of Scotland - 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 Commissioners of Scotland

My Lords and Gentlemen,

xxxii. f. 101.I have received your opinion by some of your number, and doe take notice of your great respect to mee, that you are pleased to have such a sence of my endeavours in preserving the peace of this country, for which I desire to signifie to you the Lords, Gentlemen, and Burgesses, my very affeccionate and hearty thankes.

I doe further take notice of your good affeccions to the Parliament of England, and your resolution to preserve the peace and saifty of this country, in caise God shall be pleased to call ous to the assistance of our freinds in England. And I doe further assure yow for this your great service to the Comonwealth of England at such a tyme of hazard and danger, that I will make good to the utmost of my power my former promises, and will use all meanes for the ease and releife of this afflicted nation.

For giveing yow any further power then I have done in my letters to prevent or suppresse any tumults or stirrings, I have not had tyme to consider of any better way at present, but at the next returne from the severall shyres by the twelveth of December, I shall then thincke of the best way to enable yow to secure the peace of the country.

As to the appointing of watches upon the countries next the Highlands, or upon the Borders, if yow please to give me a noate of what shyres will joyne together for the maintaineing of a watch, and the number of men to bee imployed, and of a fitt person or persons to command them, I shall then give him or them power to have soe many men under his or their conduct for the protecting of those shyres and parts from robbers. And that those shyres that have watches for their security doe give ingaigements under their hands for such men that doe command or are commanded, that they shall act nothing against the Parliament or Commonwealth of England.