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General Monck to the Officers commanding Regiments - 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 Officers commanding Regiments

Sir,

lii. f. 82.In pursuance of an order of the Commons House of Parliament, there being Commissions issued under the great Seale of England to the respective Colonels and other Feild officers or one of them, with one of his Majesties Justices of Peace in the Counties respectively where the Regiments doe quarter, to administer the oathes of supremicy and Alegiance to their Regiments respectively, I therefore desire you with all convenient speed after the receipt of the said Commission to proceede to the execution of the said Commission, and to returne to mee, under the hand of your selfe or some other Feild officer of the Regiment, the names of such officers and the number of souldiers who shall have taken the said oathes; but if there bee any who shall refuse the same, you are to discharge all such persones refuseing, whether they bee officers or souldiers, and to signify unto mee the names of any officers soe discharged. I remaine

Your very loveing Freind and Servant,

George Monck.

I desire you to take care that noe officers or souldiers bee admitted into your regiment unless they first take the oathes of Supremicy and Alegiance, or produce a certificate that they have taken itt.