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Sir Andrew Bruce 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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Sir Andrew Bruce to General Monck1

My Lord,

This last Thursday wee wer desyred to meit at Couper by a Letter from Durie for subscryveing that letter which he and some uthers had caused drau up, as if the gentilmen in this Shyre had being meer dolts. It wes a mater of astonishment to me that ane at whois being elected Comissioner the last yeir by Rothes mediation your Lordship sould now give him such ane pouer. I wes of lait desyred by your Lordship to discover the practises of malignants, and now they to be the men on whom your Lordship doeth repoise and mainlie trust may seme mor strange to me then others. It wast once your Lordships honour—yea, I may[say] did put you in credit both with God and gud men, the awninge and favouring of gudmen when oppressed by the malignant partie. I have a charitable construction, lyk as wes the discoverie of the preists of Baull, so your Lordship hath done all this to mak a full discoverie of the malignant partie in Scotland, which may be discerned in Fyiffe by our Comissioner, wha is a heart hattir off godlie men and godlines, a persecutor of his awne minister, on of the most precious men in the ministrie in Scotland, faithfull to his maister, opposeing the course of defection and all wicked wayes.

The certificat of our notable Comissioners letter is no les then to be estemed dissafected to the present engadgement. They are dissafected to [the] work of God, but not wee, and, haveing the oath of God upon us by our Covenant, cannot join in association with the malignant partie, such as they ar and so known to be by your Lordship, and wee will by Gods grace keip the peace inviolat. What they have done is notourlie known, and wee will awne your Lordship quarrell in so far as it tends to the advancement of Gods interest, in so far as it is for relligion and propagation of the Gospell. Upon any uther accompt wee have denyed to espouse the interest of kings; mor than this your Lordship cannot expect nor desyr. I shall not trouble what I have told your Lordship of malignants, bot shall remayne

Your Lordship’s true, affectionat, humble servant,

An. Bruce.

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