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Topic: The English Revolution

Newsletter - 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. 162.Yesterday wee had a sad day by reason of some bloudshed among us by the souldiers. A petition was on foote by the apprentices to bee deliver’d to the Common Councill, which coming to the knowledge of the Committee of Safety, they made a Proclamation against itt, which was proclaymed yesterday morning in Cheapside by some troopers, who were beate back by the apprentices, which occasioned the bringing in of (I thinke) all the horse and foote of the army into the Citty, who came with their swords drawne and pistolls cock’t against a multitude of naked men, and killed 6 or 7, and wounded more; butt that would nott quiett them, till about 5 a clock the Lord Mayor made Proclamation that they should all depart, the souldiers being withdrawne, some of them being kill’d and wounded.1 The peticion was delivered into the Court of Common Councill by 5 younge men, who referr’d itt to a Committee to give them answer, and those 6 Aldermen and 12 Commoners to consider of the safetie of the Citty in this juncture of time. Their names are Aldermen Foote, Fooke, Milner, Thompson, Robinson, Bateman, Mr. Biddolph, Storie, Chamberlin, Wyn, Antrobus, Barebone, Benbow, Bateman, Jolly, Edwards, Cox, Staynes. Yesterday came newes that for certaine Portesmouth hath declared for a Parliament, and this night I heare that Bristol hath done the like, and that they are uppe in Devonshire. This day my Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen were sent for to come to the Committee of Safetie; butt my Lord thought nott good to leave this Citty att the time of danger, butt sent 6 Aldermen to them, who spake plaine English to them, &c.

[1 ]There is a good account of the riot in some letters written by Samuel Pepys. See an article on ‘The Early Life of Pepys’ in Macmillan’s Magazine for November 1893.