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• Preface
• The Clarke Papers
• Resolutions of the General Council of Officers 1
• Newsletters
• Letter From the Officers In England to General Monck and the Officers In Scotland 1
• Newsletters
• The Committee of Safety to General Monck 1
• General Monck to the Committee of Safety 1
• Cornet Monck to General Monck
• Reasons For Not Taking the Oath
• The Council of State to General Monck
• General Monck to the Speaker 1
• Newsletters
• Account of the Fall of the Protector Richard 1
• General Monck to the Speaker
• Cornet Monck to General Monck
• Newsletters
• Council of War At Dalkeith, July 28, 1659
• Circular Letter From General Monck to Officers Commanding In Scotland
• Newsletter
• Vice-admiral Goodson to General Monck (?)
• Newsletters
• Colonel Mayer to General Monck (?)
• Enclosure
• Colonel West to Colonel Birch (?)
• Newsletter
• Narrative of Events At Gloucester
• Newsletters
• Newsletters
• Arrests In Scotland
• Newsletter
• The Council of State to General Monck
• Newsletters
• Newsletters
• On the Bill For the Union of England and Scotland
• The Council of State to General Monck
• Newsletter
• The Officers At Derby to General Monck
• General Monck to the Commanders In Scotland
• The Speaker to General Monck
• Newsletters
• Newsletter
• Lieutenant-general Fleetwood to General Monck
• Extracts From the Order Book of General Monck
• The Officers At Whitehall to General Monck
• General Monck’s Order For a Fast
• Letter to General Monck [?]
• General Monck to Mr. Bridge and Mr. Brinsley
• Lieut.-general Fleetwood to General Monck
• General Monck to the Officers At Whitehall
• Major-general Lambert to General Monck
• Extracts From General Monck’s Order Book
• Johnston of Warriston to General Monck
• The Ministers of the Congregated Churches About London to General Monck
• The Inhabitants of Berwick to General Monck
• General Monck to the Inhabitants of Berwick
• General Monck to Lieut.-general Fleetwood
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• General Monck to Johnston of Warriston
• General Monck to Colonel Lilburne
• General Monck to a Minister
• To Mr. William Clarke [?]
• Newsletter
• Cornet Henry Monck to Mr. William Clarke [?]
• Councell of Warre At Edinburgh, November 3, 1659 1
• Instruccions For Col. Wilkes, Lieut. Col. Clobery, and Major Ralph Knight, Commissioners From the Parliament’s Army In Scotland
• General Monck to Colonel Lilburne
• General Monck to Johnston of Warriston
• Newsletter
• The Commissioners of the Army In Scotland to General Monck
• General Monck to Lieutenant-general Fleetwood
• General Monck to Lieutenant-general Fleetwood
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• Extracts From General Monck’s Order Book
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• General Lambert to the Commissioners of the Army of Scotland
• Extract From General Monck’s Order Book
• Newsletter
• 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
• Uppon Reading of a Letter From the Pretended Committee of State, Directed to the Said Commissioners, They Came to This Resolution:—
• General Monck’s Proceedings With the Commissioners of Scotland
• Answer of the Commissioners to General Monck
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to the Officers There
• Lieutenant-general Fleetwood to Major-general Lambert
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• To Mr. William Clarke
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• General Monck to the Commissioners of Scotland
• Dr. John Owen to General Monck
• Major-general Lambert to General Monck
• Newsletter
• The Council of Officers In Scotland to Their Commissioners In England
• General Monck to Lieut.-general Fleetwood
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• One of the Commissioners to the Officers of the Army In Scotland
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• Commission to General Monck As Commander-in-chief
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• General Monck to the Commissioners of the Army of Scotland 1
• General Monck to the Commissioners
• The Officers Under Major-general Lambert to the Council of Officers In Scotland
• Major-general Lambert to General Monck
• General Monck to Dr. John Owen
• Capt. Thos. Southwell to Lieut. John Paddon 1
• Major Cambridge to Lieut. Mouns 1
• A Letter From a Trooper At Newcastle 2
• Lieut.-col. Witter to General Monck 2
• Depositions Against Lieutenant Mould 2
• Colonel Robson to General Monck 1
• Lieut.-general Fleetwood to General Monck
• The Commissioners of the Army of Scotland to General Monck
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• Newsletters
• Letter to Mr. William Clarke
• Newsletter
• Lieut.-general Fleetwood to General Monck
• News From Berwick
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• The Officers of the Army In Scotland to the Officers Under General Lambert
• News From Berwick
• Major Richardson to General Monck 1
• News From Coldstream
• Major-general Lambert to General Monck
• The Representatives of the Congregated Churches About London to General Monck
• Newsletters From London
• Captain Culcheth to Mr. William Clark 4
• Major Shaftoe to General Monck 1
• The Proposalls of the Commissioners of Shires to My Lord Generall and His Officers, December 13, 1659
• The Lord Generall Monck’s Answere to the Proposalls of the Commissioners of the Shires of Scotland, Presented to Him December 13, 1659
• General Monck to the City of Edinburgh
• General Monck to Lieutenant-general Fleetwood
• Newsletter
• General Monck to the Governor of Stirling
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• Colonel Hughes to General Monck 1
• Captain Newman to General Monck 2
• Colonel Hughes to General Monck 2
• Sir Hardress Waller to General Monck
• Mr. Samuel Hammond to General Monck
• Sir Andrew Bruce of Erlishall to General Monck 1
• Colonel Hughes to General Monck 1
• General Monck to Some Ministers
• Officers At Coldstream to Sir Arthur Heselrige and Others
• The Officers At Coldstream to the Officers At Newcastle
• Newsletter
• Sir James Stewart to General Monck 2
• General Monck to Mr. Samuel Hammond
• General Monck to the Congregated Churches
• Newsletter
• The Speaker and Others to Colonel Lytcott
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert
• Newsletters
• Major Davison to General Monck 1
• General Monck to the Inhabitants of Northumberland 2
• The Speaker to General Monck
• The Speaker to General Monck
• Sir Andrew Bruce to General Monck 1
• General Monck to Major-general Lambert 1
• General Monck to Sir Hardress Waller [?]
• General Monck to the Council of Officers In Ireland
• General Monck to the Officers of the Irish Brigade
• Colonel Hughes to Lieutenant-colonel Monck 1
• Captain Newman to General Monck 1
• Newsletter
• Declaration Intended At Coldstream 1
• General Monck to Sir Hardress Waller
• Movements of General Monck
• General Monck to the Speaker
• The Speaker to General Monck
• The Officers In Ireland to the Speaker
• General Monck to the Mayor of Hull
• General Monck to Colonel Overton
• Colonel Overton to General Monck
• General Monck to Colonel Overton
• General Monck to the Speaker
• General Monck to Chief Justice St. John
• General Monck to Mr. John Weaver 1
• General Monck to the Speaker
• General Monck to the Commissioners For the Government of the Army
• General Monck to the Speaker
• General Monck to Mr. Rolle
• General Monck to Mr. William Morris 1
• Sir Arthur Hesilrige to General Monck 2
• General Monck to the Council of State
• General Monck to the Council of State 1
• General Monck to Sir Arthur Hesilrige
• Colonels Bethell and Fairfax to General Monck
• The Examinacion of Robert Redhead, of Essendon, In Holdernesse, Taken This 28th Day of February, 1659, Before [colonel] Fairfax
• General Monck to the Officers Commanding Regiments
• General Monck to the Officers Commanding Regiments
• Sir Arthur Hasilrige to General Monck 1
• General Monck to the Officers Commanding Regiments
• General Monck to the Officers Commanding Regiments of Horse
• Appendices
• Appendix A: Certificates Extracted From General Monck’s Order-book, Clarke Ms. Vol. Xlix.
• Appendix B: Dr. Barrow’s Notes On the Proceedings of General Monck
• Appendix C: Letters Selected From the Tanner and Carte Mss.
• Appendix D: The Case of Sir Arthur Hesilrige
• Appendix E: Letter From Mr. G. Paul to King Charles II.

The Officers under Major-General Lambert to the Council of Officers in Scotland

Brethren and Fellow Souldiers,

lii. f. 27.The coppie of a letter from yow to Colonel Wilkes, Lieut.-Colonel Clobury, and Major Knight, as alsoe the coppie of a letter from Generall Monck to his Excellency the Lord Fleetwood, beeing comunicated to us by the Lord Lambert, and thereby perceiveing that yow have thought fitt to wave the Agrement made at London the fifteenth of this instant, upon grounds that your Commissioners have left some necessary part imperfect, and that they have in others mistaken their instructions, and therefore that yow are resolved to add two to your number, and proceede towards a firme and sure agrement in such way and manner as therein is exprest, and thereby, as we conceive, have put that affaire into such a delatory course as will answer noe expectation but that of the common enimie, wee cannot but expresse our present trouble occasioned thereby, and take the freedome as brethren to expostulate with yow, and to desire yow to consider what good these delayes can bring forth.

Are the differences betwixt yow and us in the matter contained in the late Agreement soe considerable as it needs the waste1 of tyme in expecting a safe conduct from London for additionall commissioners, which together with the tyme necessary for debate thereof, and theire repaire thither, must spin out many dayes, dureing which the breach betwixt us must bee kept open to the publicque view of the nations about us, till the preparations of France and Spaine (which cannot bee unknowne to you) bee ready to joyne with the publicque enimy within our bowells, and will nothing satifie yow but the hazard of the lives and well beeing of your freinds and brethren in England? Did yow well understand and consider the late transactions in reference to the publicque, before yow tooke your armes in your hands, and resolved to march for England? Have yow any grounds to beleeve that they are not equally concerned with yow in the happines and prosperity of theire native country, and that the libertyes thereof as men and Christians are [not] as deare to them as their lives? As for the callumnies cast uppon them by some of yow of being enimies to magistracy, ministry, and schooles of learneing, are they any other then what hath bin cast uppon the people of [God] in all ages, and uppon us by the comon enimy even whilst you and wee like friends often hazarded our lives together in carryeing on that worke, and wherein not onely by our publicque declarations, but alsoe by our private discourses, [we] have declared that thorough regulation and reformation in those things was the summe of our desires? Were not your commissioners acquainted with these things, and fully impowred to treate and conclude, and have they not in pursuance thereof signed an agreement in your behalfs? If these things bee soe, have wee not reason to judge our selves dealt with all in an extraordinary way, contrary to the practise of declared enimies in all nations, and much more contrary to what ought to bee amongst friends and brethren?

Yet, to the end nothing conduceing to peace may bee left unattempted on our parts, wee have desired Major Generall Lambert to acquaint Generall Monck, that if hee please to appoint two commissioners (officers of the army in Scotland) to bee added to those already at London, and signifie theire names to him, that a safe conduct shalbee forthwith given to them, and that accord[ing] to your desire the treaty may be removed to Newcastle, which in order to your satisfaction wee hope wilbee granted. And to the end wee may bee cleare and plaine with yow in your proceedings, [wee] thought fitt to acquaint yow that wee have advised his Excellency that nothing in the agreement may bee parted from, nor new matter or further explanacions admitted which are not consentaneous to what is already concluded; as alsoe to advise his Lordshipp that the Generall Council agreed uppon in the third article of the agreement at London, appointed to meete the sixth of December next, may accordingly hold theire meeting, and proceed to setle the affaires therein mentioned, to the end that if a failure bee on your parts, all [un]prejudiced men may see where the obstruction to setlement lies, soe much desired by all good people in these nations. And haveing said thus much unto yow, we shall conclude that through mercy wee hope wee shalbee found lovers of our country, lovers of the people of God, lovers of peace, and desireous to continue in a brotherly affection towards yow. And what ever decision the Lord shall give to this controversy, wee hope wee shall blesse his name, and say the will of the Lord bee done. Soe making our earnest desire to the Throne of Grace that his [hee] will in much mercy rebuke that spiritt which for preferment or selfe advantage shall sett it selfe against peace, whether it bee found in yow or us, and comitting yow to his direction in this greate affaire, wee remaine

Your affectionate friends and
humble servants,

Newcastle,
29th November, 1659.

Postcript:

Wee perceive by a postcript in Generall Monck’s letter to the Lord Fleetwood, that Colonell Cobbet is still detained a prisoner, uppon grounds that his case hath somthing in it different from the rest. Wee have thought fitt to acquaint yow that hee was sent by order of the Lord Fleetwood and a Committee of the Generall Councill of officers as a publicque messinger, and therefore desire that hee may have the previledge of messingers, except by some miscarriage hee hath forfeited the same, and therefore wee desire that hee may bee sett at liberty, or heard before impartiall judges of the crime laide to his charge, and wee doubt not but hee will bee founde both faithfull and honnest to his country. Wee have heard some report that hee is imprisoned because hee had order to seiz General Monck, which as it is in it self frivilouse, soe it is untrue, as many of us who weere uppon the place when he received his dispatch can testifie.

[1 ]MS. ‘best.’