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Major Cambridge to Lieut. Mouns 1 - 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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Major Cambridge to Lieut. Mouns1

Leift.,

I doe hereby desier you to send my man Som[ervi]ll to Newcastle to mee with what speed you can. If it be with you as I have hard, you may think strang that I should send to you, but I wold not have you to stand in your owne light, and run upon your owne rewing, which you will unavoydable do in apeareing against the people of God, who for my part I never knew more unanimus since the war began then now; lett men say what they will, you will find it. I shall not in the lest goe about to perswaid you from your resolutions, but desier you to be carefull that with your owne rewing you doe not betray the lifes of those you have had under mee the charge of, and bring the gilt of there blod upon your owne head, as you have there, makeing shipwracke of there concernes in forsing them to signe to that thay understood not; in which you have indulged non but those we have had the contest with for this seventene years. Be not shoked with a paper commission; but consider things, and you may perceive whether there is any thing of realety in what hath bin pretended, all things being answered that was demanded, and satisfaction given to the Commisioners att London; and an agrement by them consented unto, and signed by them, but deneyed by those that hath insnared you, with a pretenc thay have exceded there instrucktions, shuch a thing as yet I never knew by aney of the Cavelers. I shall say no more to you of that, knowing if you will see you may see so much; as those offecers hath seene that hath left you in Scotlan, which are betwine eaighty and a hundred;1 the consideration wharof I shud think, if nothing els, might make you stager. But I need say no more to you, knowing your concienc can not but fly in your face. Your brother, Capt. Suthwell, desiered mee to send you this inclosed. I pray you send me my man, and if you plese you may take care to send me my money to or returne it to Newcastle, for I understand you have much moneys of the regements in your hands. But I shall trouble you no more about that, or aney thing els, more then to desier you to be carefull of your undertaking, and rest him who before you ingaged against the people of God could writ himself your reall frind; but now, as commonly said, I am your servient,

O. Cambridge.

Nov. the last, 1659.

I would a writ somthing to my troop, but knowing you would keipt it from them I have forborne; only lett my man have this.

[On the back] For Leift. Thos. Mouns att his Quarters att Jadard, in Scotland, this hast.

[1 ]Cambridge was major of Twisleton’s regiment of horse, and Mouns (who is also described as Mynn, Mims, or Munns) was lieutenant of his troop. This letter also is from the Phillips MSS.

[1 ]In Mercurius Politicus for November 24-December 1, 1659, there is a long list of ‘the officers that have either deserted General Monck, or that upon his declaring, being in England, have refused to return to their charges’ (p. 922).