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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

confidence on that score to imprison the Deliverers and by the Interposition of the Forces here and led out against your Excellency who lay in the passage to You. But now may it please Your Excellency seeing it hath pleased God in some measure to remove those Obstructions We presume by this to Assert in VVriting what VVe hope all Our Actings since the Receipt of Your Excellencies Advice have evidenced That VVe have cordially concurred with your Excellency in disowing the Authour of that Force who interrupted the Parliament and ravish'd the Birth-right of these Nations by daring to null and make void Acts of Parliament and VVe think have contributed somewhat by Gods blessing on Our Counsels and Actings to the preventing of the sad Consequences of that exorbitant presumption How fully and entirely VVe comply with Your Excellency in asserting the Authority and Freedom of Parliaments and the just Rights and Liberties of the People a National Ministry for the enlightning of the Ignorant and suppressing of Atheism VVe humbly Refer Your Excellency to Our enclosed Declaration and do seriously assure Your Excellency That VVe shall by Gods assistance persist faithfully and vigorously in this Good Cause And praying God to preserve your Excellency and those Noble Commanders with You in these Your Just Honourable and Christian Undertakings shall Remain Your Excellencies Most Affectionate and Faithful Friends and Servants The Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common-Council Assembled In Their Names and by Their Order SADLER Guildhall London Decemb 29. 1659. This Letter is Conveighed by the Sword-bearer of London by the several Directions of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Court of Common-Council THE LETTER Of His EXCELLENCY the Lord Gen. Monck In ANSWER to the former LETTER My Lord I Received a Letter from your Lordship and the rest of the Common-Council of the 29th of December and do humbly thank you for that great esteem which you are pleased to put upon our poor Endeaours of the Parliaments Army under my Command far trancending our Merits and Services As to those Ends which we then declared for I bless the Lord I acted Conscience and I hope we were found in the way of duty and are resolved by the grace of God to adhere to them having found such wonderful blessings following us in these our just and honest Undertakings As your prudent Counsels and couragious Actings were the great means under God of restoring this Parliament to its just and lawful Authority so of the safety and welfare of the Nations for which I do for my Self and the rest of the Officers here return my very hearty thanks and we shall have ever cause to bless the Lord for this great mercy in putting into your hearts such righteous and honourable Resolutions to appear at such a time when our Liberties and Properties and all that is dear unto us even the Ordinances of our blessed Saviour were in such hazard Indeed it was much in our hopes that such a glorious City that had redeemed themselves from slavery at the price of so much blood and treasure and had been the great Instruments in the hand of God for the carrying on the Work of Reformation and bringing three Nations out of the Captivity of Tyranny and Arbitrary Government could ever consent to such illegal and unjust proceedings As we do acknowledge your great activity in promoting those great Ends which we lately represented to you so we do heartily thank you for the honour and encouragement which you have been pleased in this your Letter to give to the Parliaments Army here for our selves we having nothing to seek we bless the Lord in all this Affair but to endeavour the safety and Settlement of these Nations in general and of the famous City in particular We received your enclosed Declaration and do chearfully joyn with you therein And I do promise you for the Army under my Command that they are resolved by the assistance of God to stand by and maintain this present Parliament as it sate on October 11. from whom we received our Commissions and do hope that you that have been so eminently Instrumental in their restoring will heartily concur with us therein and shall to the utmost of our power defend the freedom of successive Parliaments and the Liberties Spiritual and Civil of the People in these Nations and shall encourage in our Stations the Godly and Learned Ministers and shall continue faithful in this Good Cause that the Nations may be stablished in a Free Common-wealth and the Army kept in due obedience to the Civil Authority And as we have experienced the great affection of your City in such a day of Darkness and great Tryal so we shall ever study to the utmost to express our services for you and shall not think our lives too precious to hazard for your welfare I think to wait upon you shortly and shall reserve those further acknowledgments to that opportunity and remain Your Lordships very humble Servant George Monck New-Castle Jan. 6. 1659. A LETTER SENT FROM General Monck SUPERSCRIBED To the Right Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker to the Right Honourable the Parliament of ENGLAND To be communicated to the rest of the Members of Parliament at London Right Honourable I Received yours of the 22d instant and desire to return to our good God hearty thanks that he hath been pleased to own and appear for his People in such glorious instances of Mercy and Deliverance I bless the Lord I never doubted of his presence and success in this undertaking being so righteous a Cause and had long since put it to Gods determination but upon advertisements from Friends in England That if I could continue here without engaging till the first of January the work would be done without blood I cannot but admire upon what Intelligence you should be perswaded of a second Treaty Indeed I was inforced to make use of such an Overture to remove the Commissioners from London whom I cannot but blame for receding from their Instructions but I hope they will give you a satisfactory account of their proceedings Yet I acknowledge that I could not but resent their carriage having secured one of them for betraying the private instructions of which I doubt not but you have been fully informed My last Answer to the Lord Lambert who sent several Messengers to invite me to a second Treaty was That I could not treat without authority from the Commissioners for the Government of the Army and to that end desired a Pass for the same Messengers to go to Portsmouth to receive their Commands and Instructions who was returned back with this Answer from Lambert and the Council of Officers That they could not consent thereunto and since that I have not heard from them I have your Army I bless God upon the River Tweed within three hours ready to be drawn together and they are very chearful and unanimous willing to endure any hardship for your

the good of his Intrest Cause and People in these Nations Nothing less than these worthy ends could have caused us to adventure our All that is dear to us for your and their sakes And after such a hazard our Brethren to look shy upon us yea such with whom we have lived and conversed together prayed fought and jeoparded our lives together and witnesses together of the glory of the most high God in the high places of the field Yea we that are of one Society of one Family and Houshold that none hitherto through the grace of God could dis-unite us now to be at a distance with us is the greatest wound to us which is unexpressable If it had been from our Enemies we could have born it Oh but they are the wounds of the house of our Friends And all this arising without dealing brotherly with us and without so much as sending to know the providential Grounds that led us to these Undertakings And likewise your and our unhappiness hath been possibly by mis-informations received by those who have corresponded with the principal occasioners of this Breach However we are censured by you we shall we hope carry Christianly and Brotherly towards you and exercise our selves in the Doctrine of our Saviour If any be overtaken in a fault restore such a one in the spirit of meekness knowing also we are subject to like temptations And we ought to pitty and pray for one another and forgive one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven us We hope the fear of God will guide you so that you may do nothing to grieve Him and his little Flock and rejoyce the common Enemy abroad and at home nor give them advantages to make a prey of these poor Nations What can you propound to your selves If you are for good things so are we if for a Free-State and Common-wealth so are we if against a Single Person so are we if for Reformation so are we if for Godliness and the Nations to be exalted in Righteousness so are we Why do we differ in the form and way to it Oh dear friends if you should precipitately engage i●to a War and should Conquer your Brethren would not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be a Conquest over your selves and all the 〈◊〉 People of the Land And if they are gone certainly if you retain your old Principles you would not desire to live long 〈…〉 〈…〉 Brethren We commend unto you that place of 〈◊〉 Josh. 1. 14 15. We shall with our bended knees implore the God of Heaven and King of Saints to guide you and perswade you as holy Noah said in another case Gen. 9. 27. God shall perswade Japhet to dwell in the tents of Shim Finally Brethren farewel Be of good comfort Let us be of one mind live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you and us We remain Your most affectionate Brethren and Fellow-Souldiers Dear Friends We hope to hear in your Answer to this that all our dear Friends now in Bonds are at Liberty and that the Lord hath satisfied your hearts to acquiesce in his present Dispensations so as we may not expose each other to further Inconveniency A RETURN OF THE General Officers IN SCOTLAND To the aforesaid LETTER of the OFFICERS at Whitehall Dear Brethren and Fellow Souldiers in the Lord IN the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ We return you our most hearty wishes and prayers That Grace and Truth and Peace also might be multiplied unto you And that to your Faith and your Vertue and your Knowledge and your Temperance and your Godliness and your brotherly Kindness and your Charity might be added Patience and Meekness and Humility and Self-denial Great are the thoughts of our hearts for the divisions in Reuben and we are as you express it deeply affected and afflicted in our own spirits when we consider what cause we have to be dissatisfied with you our dear Brethren you with whom we have lived and conversed together with whom we have prayed and fought and jeoparded our lives together with whom we have taken sweet Counsel and walked together in the House of God as Friends But we cannot conceal from you that our Affection and Affliction of spirit is much increased by the Letter you sent us by Captain Deane and by the Books you referred us to in that Letter We had before some small indeed our onely hopes that there might be some mistake between us but alas We cannot but now think since we find you have no more to say for your selves that Our fears were but too true the Causes of our Dissatisfaction at your present actings but too just We shall deal with you with that plainness and freedom and sincerity that becometh Brethren for so we think it becometh us To fulfil all Righteousness And so we think it expedient both for you and us that We may the sooner come to a right understanding one of another We could not be satisfied that there was any such need of more General Officers the first occasion of this unhappy difference as that the Parliament should be pressed to it so unseasonably and so just a jealousie created in them that there was a Design to set up a Single Person of which they had but so late and so sad experience and we could not but think it sufficient for the security of the good Interest that the Army was united under one head the Parliament We were less satisfied that after you declared your Satisfaction and Acquiescence in the Votes of the House you should endeavour by a new way to wrest the Power out of their own hands and to prosecute the same Designe This making the Army a Corporation in a manner Independent from the Civil Power and creating to it an Interest distinct from that of the Peoples by whom they hitherto have and still must live and for whom they are by their Engagements and Duties bound to dye and that after you knew the Parliament had in effect disapproved your Petition you should still endeavour to get more hands to it which neither the Parliament not we our selves could look upon any otherwise then as a design to force the Parliament to grant what they had already in effect disapproved if not to do that which you say was done at less then half an hours warning But then that after the sad experience of so many confusions tossings which these poor Nations had already felt by such actings as these after the unhappy since acknowledged unlawful former interruption of that by your selves called famous long Parliament after the Confusions and Distractions of that little one of your own and not of the Peoples choosing after the occasion by them given to some of setting up and the necessity imposed on us of accepting a Single Person contrary to our former Engagements and to our Interests after our late renewed Engagement and our solemn and serious expressions of Repentance That you