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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26601	A collection of several letters and declarations, sent by General Monck unto the Lord Lambert, the Lord Fleetwood, and the rest of the General Council of Officers in the army ...	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing A840; ESTC R15215	35,417	72

I make of the Parliaments Authority but the tie of duty to which I am in my Conscience obliged and I shall be heartily sorry if your Lordship makes any other Interpretation of it for your Lordship knows my Command has been offered often up to those that had power to place it better We are all I bless the Lord very unanimous here and I am confident when the Gentlemen we send from hence have given your Lordship a true understanding of our actions you will not have so severe an opinion of them as you seem to have in your late Letters The persons names are Col. Wilkes Lieut. Col. Clobery and Major Knight all well known to your Lordship to whom I beseech your Lordship to give credit in what they shall propose from the Army here and I beseech you to believe I am still with a sincere heart My Lord Your Lordships very humble servant GEORGE MONCK A Letter sent by General MONCK to Vice Admiral GOODSON to be communicated to the rest of the Officers of the Fleet in answer to a Letter with some Proposals lately sent to him from Them Dear Country-men and Commanders I Am glad that you have not forgotten your old friend and that by this occasion I have such advantage to hear of your hearty affections to me and kind remembrance of me and that you have such a deep sence of the divisions amongst us and the miserable consequence thereof but I am very much sadded that you have entertained such mistakes and misapprehensions of our proceedings These enclosed Papers will fully satisfie you that we have just grounds of dissatisfaction and that we cannot comply with such violent and unwarrantable undertakings both against our reason as men and against our Consciences as Christians that you and we should take our Commissions and pay from the Parliament and yet to violate their Authority after such solemn assurances of obedience and faithfulness contrary to the expressed word of God and our own late Addresses I hope I am so well known to some of you that I am none of those that seek great things to my self or delight in the shedding the blood of English men much lesse of Christian Brethren but to preserve the name of God from Blasphemy and Reproach which our actings I wish I could not call them treache●ousness and perfidiousness have occasioned whereby Jesus Christ and his truth have been evil spoken of which makes our very lives bitter to us and to assert the integrity and honour of this Army which is very dear to me I have been forced with the Parliaments Army under my command though with much grief of heart to beat our Testimony against the late violence of the Army and the reasons thereof you will find in our printed papers and our endeavours to perswade them in England to remove that force which they have put upon the Parliament As to your Proposals I beseech you seriously to consider and lay to heart these following Answers 1. To the first you are pleased to intimate the joy of the Cavaliers that they see us stand to our Declaration but I believe that this violent interruption of the Parliament was the greatest courtesie to gratefie that Family and Interest that could be imagined in the World and I could wish it were not designed I should be very sad to strengthen the hands of the Wicked but let me assure you this ariseth from the slanders and calumnies which men cast upon us in England as if we that assert the Authority of those that brought the late King to the Block are for introducing that Family which I take God to witness we in our very thoughts abhor and shall spend our blood in opposition to any Single person whatsoe ver. 2. You are pleased to compare our present differences to that of the Israelites with the two Tribes of Reuben Gad and halfe the Tribe of Manasses and I earnestly pray that there may be the same issue for if they will restore these persons to their lawfull Authority which have been established by many successes and for the difference of which they so lately hazarded to blood we shall quietly sit down and wait upon the Providences of God in our places and Stations and to this end we have sent Commissioners into England men faithfull and approved What you are pleased to instance concerning my satisfaction in the year 1653. When this Parliament was interrupted formerly I shall answer you to that it was never in my Conscience to go out of Gods way under the pretence of doing Gods work and you know the variety of times doth much vary the nature of affaires and what might then patiently be submitted unto we being engaged with a forraign Enemy in a bloody War cannot be drawn into a president at this time after our Repentance and assurance of Loyalty and Constancy you may be pleased to remember that the consequence of the former Interruptions was the Introduction of a single person and a manifest breach of all our promises and engagements so that if God blessed me with success then I do much more through mercy expect it now when I put all to hazzard for the Glory of God and the good of his people 3. I do acknowledge that the Army hath been in the hand of God and instruments of good to these Nations yet if they shall apostate from the Cause of God and his people in exposing them to Arbitrary Power and the wills of men in taking upon them to Abollish Lawes raise money without consent of the people destroy Ministery and property and force Parliaments I cannot but witness against such proceedings as unwarrantable not suited to any rule either from God or man 4. I have taken care by Garrisons in this Country and assurance from the whole body of the Nation that they will not own the interest of Charles Stewart and that they will preserve the peace of the Commonwealth in obedience to the parliament So that if that part of the Army in England will set up a distinct interest in the Nation in deserting that Cause that hath been so precious to us and cost so much blood and treasure for to establish their own Interest and greatness I do declare in the presence of the Great God I cannot own you nor Ioyn with them Now having opened my heart to you and as you know my plainness and sincerity that I am none of those that dare assert any thing against my Conscience from that experience ye have had of me I heartily begg your belief and credit that I shall keep in the way of duty and endeavour to do the Lords work in my Generation and shall not own any corrupt interest whatsoever and do desire of God his blessing according to my Integrity in this undertaking having this good Testimony in my own Spirit that I have nothing but publick and Righteous ends upon my heart and by all these respects and kindnesses that I have received from you