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Topic: The English Revolution

Newsletters - 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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xxxii. f. 152b.Friday last the Committee of Safety ordered the Proclamation against signing of peticions to be proclaymed by the Lord Mayor, who pretending indisposicion of body, Sergeant Dendy yesterday morning, with the assistance of a troope of horse, published the same att the old Exchange,1 where many apprentices and other discontented persons threw tiles off from the houses and great pieces of ice from the gutters uppon the said troopers, who march’t out of the Citty (being sometimes necessitated to face about) without offending any of the said tumult. About 9 of the clock that morning the cittizens had shut upp all theire shopps, which occasioned more forces to march in and secure the peace thereof, wherein 2 or 3 of the Citty were slaine, and a Lieutenant and 4 private souldjers wounded. The Committee of Safety ordered the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen to attend them this day at White Hall about 10 of the clock. About ij that night the Lord Mayor sent a message to the Lord Fleetwood, wherein hee desires that the forces of the army might march out, and that hee would undertake to preserve the peace of the Citty; which being denyed, the care thereof was recommended to Generall Disbrowe and Col. Hewson, who might march in with 2 regiments. This day the apprentices’ peticion and the answer thereunto were published.

A letter likewise came this day from Portsmouth, which saith that 10 disguised persons came in there Saturday night last, and committed severall officers of that garrison, which hath declared for the Restoration of the last Parliament; some of those persons are said to bee Sir Arthur Heslerigg, Col. Morley, Col. Walton and Coll. [blank.] Severall forces are ordered to lye downe before the said place of Portsmouth. The Lord Richard Cromwell is come to Hampton Court. Col. Hacker hath his liberty uppon his paroll. Quarter Master Generall Courtney and Adjutant Generall Allen are goeing Commissioners to the fleete. The Lord Mayer came not this day to attend the Committee of Safety according to order, but about 4 Aldermen. The Modell of Government is very much hastned.

[1 ]Printed in the Public Intelligencer, Nov. 28-Dec. 5, 1659, p. 919, and dated Dec. 1. Cf. Sharpe, London and the Kingdom, ii. 358.