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General Monck to Lieut.-General Fleetwood - 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 Lieut.-General Fleetwood

My Lord.

lii. f. 22.I have received two letters from your Lordship, and by the same packett an agreement signed by your Lordship’s hand, together with an intimacion that the same was signed by those gentlemen which were appointed by the Generall Councell of Officers here to treat with your Lordship. I am exceedingly rejoyced to find in your Lordship and the officers with you a spirit so complyeing and so tender of the publique peace, and shall upon intimacion had from my Lord Lambert what method he useth in drawing off the forces hee hath drawne toward us, observe the same here. But because I am desireous that this agreement of ours might be full and firme, and because I perceive that there are some things which remayne yet untreated of and unagreed upon, and some of those thinges already consented unto by our commissioners which without further explication wee conceive cannot stand either with our declaracions or their instruccions, it is the resolucion of my selfe and the officers here to adde two more to their number, that they may conferre with the like number of such as shall be appointed by your Lordship and the Generall Councell of Officers with you, and to furnish them with such further instructions as may be necessary to the putting a finall period to this unhappy businesse; and accordingly I desire your Lordship to send hither a safe conduct for them. It is my desire that the treaty may be held at Yorke, for the conveniencie of sending on both sides for such further instruccions as may be necessary upon emergent occasions, the want of which I take to be the cheife cause why the present treaty hath not had in all respects its desired effect; and I must take leave to tell your Lordship that the pacquett hath not had that freedome which I did expect, and which was necessary in order to the clearing of our misapprehensions. The time of the treaty I leave to your Lordship’s owne choyce, onely desiring it might be as soone as possible, and if your Lordship would permit it to be at Newcastle (which may be done with conveniency enough to your Lordship in regard of the continuall recourse your commissioners may have to the Lord Lambert) it would very much expedite the businesse, of which I suppose your Lordship can be no lesse desirous then I am, because you cannot but be sensible that the whole three nations are in expectation of this issue, till which all publique businesse must needs be at a stand, unlesse it be that of the publique enemy, who cannot but apprehend his owne advantages, and will very loathly let them slip. My Lord, as in the time of our greatest misunderstanding and misapprehension, there was nothing of any personall relation either to your selfe or any officer with you, or indeed to any other then the common cause in which wee are all equally engaged, so I conceive it will be very easy, [as soon] as those thinges are cleared, to returne to that mutuall confidence and freindship which on my part was never lost. And I can at this time as really and heartily as ever subscribe my selfe

Your Lordship’s most humble and faithfull servant,

George Monck.

Edinburgh,
24 November, 1659.

Lieut.-General Fleetwood,

My Lord,—

I have now set at liberty all the imprisoned officers except Colonel Cobbet, whose case hath somewhat in it different from the rest, of which I shall give your Lordship a particular account hereafter. There are severall officers of mine who are stayed in England by your Lordship’s or the Lord Lambert’s order; I intreat your Lordship they may be permitted to come to their commands.