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Topic: The English Revolution

News from Berwick - 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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News from Berwick

xxxii. f. 150b.Intelligence being brought that a partie of the Lord Lambert’s, consisting of 3 regiments of horse and a regiment of dragoones with 2 drake’s, was come to Chillingham and other parts of Northumberland therabouts, the Lord Generall issued out orders for the drawing of the forces in these parts together, and march’t out of Berwick by 3 of the clock in the morning, and was att Lady Kirkes a little after breake of day, where the severall troopes of his owne regiment of horse drew uppe to him; and then hee march’t to Coldstreame, where quarter’d Justice Ogle’s troope and 2 troopes of his owne that night, and the rest in New Coldstreame and the parts therabouts.1

Their front of threescore horse lay last night at Woller, and some inform’d they had 8 companies of foote with them.

[1 ]On the march to Coldstream and arrival there, see Baker, p. 697; Gumble, p. 161; Price, p. 744.