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Topic: The English Revolution

Major Shaftoe to General Monck 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 Shaftoe to General Monck1

My Lord,

After A tender of my duty, zit I am soe well satisfied with your Lordshipes present ingagement that I am much imbouldned to make an offer of my humbell services to yow and your present cawese; my Lord, I shall not giue yow any ffurther truble, only giue me leaue to crave the same incurragement yow are plased to aford others; And power ffrom your Excellence to put your commands in execution; This done I will not doute to appeare before yow in the worst of timese with fforty or ffifty horse. And if it shall please God soe to strenthen your hands as to cleare this poore County of theese men now in the midist of us, I dare ingage to raise the beest part of a Regement. Att present I have noe more, but will euer subscribe my selfe

Your Lordshipes most humble
and ffaithfull saruent,

Dalston Shaftoe.

By Captain William Dowens, if you please, I may reseue your Lordshipes comands.

[1 ]Phillips MSS. in the Advocates’ Library.