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Major Davison 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 Davison to General Monck1

My Lord,

Beeinge returned to my family at Leith, wher I purpose to remaine, the least I could doe is to returne your Lordship thancks for your greate seuilitys and respects to mee, and hope your Lordship will still retaine the same thouts of mee as formerly, and not sufer your chaist ears to bee infected but upon good grownds, for I can not but expect enimys, yet my owne inocency with that fathfullnes I ow, and shall by Gods blesing continue to your Lordship and those good things yow have declared for, will yeeld mee pease; your and the Comonwelths enemys complyance with your proposalls may bee such, or there incolencyes soe great, that may again bring mee under your comaund, in which I shall as ever study to aproue my selfe.

Your Lordship’s most humble saruant,

Dan. Davison.1

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

[1 ]Major Davison died in prison at York in 1665, having been arrested on suspicion of plotting against the government of Charles II. (Memoirs of Sir Henry Slingsby and Captain John Hodgson, ed. 1806, p. 196.) He was major of the foot regiment of Colonel Charles Fairfax.