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Topic: The English Revolution

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

My Lord,

lii. f. 38b.I have received yours of the 24th of November, wherin you are pleased to expresse your satisfaction in that compliance that is heere in order to an healing of this breach which hath bin amongst us. I hope wee are not without a sence of that sore rebuke which wee have mett with in this late difference. Greate will bee our mercy if the Lord please to give a perfect healeing unto the wound, which through our misunderstandings hath not onely bin grevious to ourselves, but probably would have bin very destructive to the interest wee have been contending for, and therefore it cannot but bee a trouble to mee to think there should bee any doubt of a composure of our late differences. For I must lett your Lordshipp know that wee were not without our difficultyes to dispose any Generall Councell heere to a complyance with what was agreed uppon betwixt us and your commissioners, and it being at the Generall Councell demanded whether they had a power to conclude what was agreed uppon, an assurance was given us by them that they had a full authority thereunto, and as the expression was, that they should make good the agreement, or render theire persons unto the Councill. This was soe often objected as to theire power, and soe often affirmed to bee in them, that indeede, if yow should not make good this agreement, it will be a more dishonorable action then any thing your Lordshipp wilbee guilty of. I doubt not but there are those who will laboure to influence those affaires so as to make a breach betwixt us, and who will have the advantage of it but our common enimy? I know there is nothing in the agreement but is of equall, nay, of much more advantage to yow then to us, as our differences have been stated; but our designe was to consider of our case, as wee are both engaged in one common cause, that soe our common enimy might not make prey of us both, and therefore, my Lord, I must retaine that confidence in yow as a person of honoure that will not suffer faith to bee broken with enimyes, much lesse with friends. Therefore I must desire your Lordship to hasten away your officers according to the agreement of the Generall Councill, as alsoe to make good those other parts of the agreement, and in perticular that yow will please to sett Collonel Cobbett at liberty, whose case is different from all others, hee beeing a messinger sent from hence, and therefore ought to have had his liberty. If hee hath exceeded his instructions, I hope yow will looke upon us [as] the most proper judges thereof.

My Lord, I beseech yow consider the condition of these poore nations, how much theire destractions will encrease uppon the unresolvednes betwixt us, and as yow love the good thereof, let not any thing divert yow from makeing good that wee were assured should bee performed to us. As for anything which may bee a dissatisfaction uppon other accompts, I shall not doubt but wee shall give or receive a full and cleare satisfaction therein, my Lord Lambert having full power in all things tending to the perfecting of what may make upp our breach. I shall not give yow the further trouble then to bee assured there is none more desireous of a through understanding betwixt your Lordshipp and our friends then I doe, who shalbee ready uppon all occasions to expresse my selfe

Your affectionate humble servant,

Charles Fleetwood.

Wallingford Howse,
1st December, 1659.