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General Monck to the Mayor of Hull - 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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General Monck to the Mayor of Hull

Sir,

lii. f. 48.Being now come with part of the army under my command as farre as Yorke, and thinking itt very conducible to the service of the Parliament that I fully understand the condicion of their forces and garrisons in these parts, I have sent these Messengers to you, that soe I may receive certaine informacion whether the Towne and Garrison of Hull have yett declared for the Parliament in their present constitution.2 If I could have obteyned any certaine intelligence in this particuler I had nott given yow the trouble of this letter, which I hope yow will excuse and answer, that soe all grounds of suspicion may be removed, and a good correspondence mainteyned betwixt yow and the rest of the army in the service of the Parliament.

Sir,
Your very loving freind and servant,

G. M.

Yorke,
12o Jan., 1659.

To Wm. Ramsden, Esq., Major of Hull.

[2 ]Monck reached York on October 11, and stayed there till October 16. In a letter written to the Speaker from York on January 12 he acquaints him with his arrangements respecting the troops he found at York, and others in the North of England. There is no copy of this amongst the Clarke MSS.; but it is printed at length in Grey’s Answer to Neal’s History of the Puritans, vol. iv., Appendix, p. 161. A letter from Lenthall, dated January 7, reached Monck at York, ordering him to come to London. His answer, dated January 16, is printed in the same work (p. 163). See also Report on the Duke of Portland’s MSS. i. 694.