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General Monck to Major-General Lambert - 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 Major-General Lambert

My Lord,

lii. f. 23.Before I received yours by Major Cambridge, Capt. Lloyd, and Capt. Wallington, I had received the agreement therein mentioned, and had upon that occasion called a generall Councell of officers, the result of which you will sufficiently understand by this inclosed, which is a copie of the letter they have written to their Commissioners. And I have written my selfe to the same purpose to the Lord Fleetwood. Now, Sir, that which is desired of you by mee and by the officers here is, that you would conceive this done in order to a sound and a cleare and perfect peace, and for no other intent and purpose. And if you shall think fitt, according to the Lord Fleetwood’s order, to draw off such forces as have bin drawne towards us upon this occasion, I shall upon notice take the same course as you doe, or if you shall thinke fitt, as you have hitherto done, only to forbeare extending your quarters towards us till this second treaty may be had and finished; I desire to know your mind, that there may be no mistake between us. I cannot but take notice of the reason you gave of your owne march to Newcastle, and of your stopping the packett, and (if you be not already satisfyed upon that point) I doe hereby assure you that your intelligence was wholly false, and that I did never march one mile towards Berwick till I was fully assured you were at Newcastle. And I doe intreat you for the future that you will not upon such kind of surmizes enter upon such actions, as have been a great cause that the late treaty hath not had altogether so happy an issue as (I conceive) was on both sides desired, and may be a meanes wholly to frustrate any other; but that dureing the treaty the packetts to and fro may neither be retarded nor opened, as some of them of late have been; and that if any such kind of informacions shall chance to come to your hands, that you will please to acquaint mee with them, and I shall endeavour therein to give you satisfaccion, and in all thinges to shew my selfe

Your Lordship’s most humble and reall
servant,

George Monck.

Edinburgh,
24 November, 1659.

For sending Commissioners according to the sixt Article of the Agreement, because I conceive it will be part of the subject matter of the debate in the intended treaty, I shall forbeare it till that be over. If your Lordship thinks it fitt to stay at Newcastle I shall make my residence at Berwick with one troope of horse onely, but if you shall retire to Yorke I shall remayne at Edinburgh.