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Topic: The English Revolution

General Monck to the Officers commanding Regiments of Horse - 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 of Horse

Sir,

lii. f. 83.The Lord’s Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury haveing appointed that the officers and souldiers of the army doe give in under their hands respectively [and] perticulerly what Crowne lands were bought or doe belong unto them, in regard the officers here, and I on their behalfe, are suitors to his Majestie for a perticuler marke of his favour to the army in consideracion of those lands. I desire you, therefore, to appoint the officers and souldiers of your regiment of Horse to bring in and deliver unto you the perticulers of any such Crowne lands or rents, vizt. Kings, Queenes, or Princes lands, as they really have purchased, under their hands respectively, each officer and souldier by himselfe, the time when they purchased them, with the yearely value of them, and whether in trust or for themselves, according to the tenor of the inclosed, after they have expressed their lands as aforesaid, and to send two copies of them inclosed to Doctour Samuell Barrow, directing them to him at Mr. William Clerck’s house in the Pell-Mell, one to bee delivered to the Surveyour Generall, and the other to bee kept by —. This is desired in regard the former perticulers sent upp are not soe full [as] to answer these ends for which they are intended, which is all at present from

Your very loveing Freind,

Albemarle.

Cock-pitt: 21o July,
1660.

In pursuance of an order from the Lord’s Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury, the 16o of July, 1660, I doe hereby certifie that the lands above mentioned were purchased by mee, A. B., of Capt. NA Company or Troope, in Coll. NA Regiment of I. S., on the NA day of NA in the yeare of our Lord NA to my owne proper use and none other, and that the yearely value above mentioned is the true and just value thereof. Witness my hand the NA day of NA in the yeare of our Lord, 1660.

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