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Subject Area: Political Theory
Subject Area: History
Topic: The English Revolution

Movements of General Monck - 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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Movements of General Monck

xxxii. f. 212b.This night my Lord Generall with his owne regiment of horse, and Col. Knight’s, his owne of foote, Col. Fairfax’s, and Col. Lydcott’s, marched from Coldstreame and quarter’d att Wooller and the parts therabouts that night, onely 3 troopes of Col. Knight’s regiment, who were gone before towards Morpeth, were order’d with Col. Knight to enter Newcastle, which they did by 6 of the clock next morning; 4 companies of Col. Ashfield’s regiment, having bin to demand entrance, were denied.

Col. Reade (who in Major-Generall Morgan’s sicknesse commanded the other parte of the army) was to come the next day, and soe follow’d into the same quarters with Major-General Morgan’s and Col. Cloberie’s of horse, and Major-Generall Morgan’s his owne, and Col. Hubblethorne’s of foote.