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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

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 AS ALSO Unto That part of the Parliament called the Rump The Committee of Safety so called The Lord Mayor and Common Council of the City of London The Congregated Churches in and about London LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. A LETTER FROM General Monck TO KING CHARLES May it pl̄ease your Majesty SEeing it hath pleased God out of his gracious will and pleasure to cause me to cast my Eye upon this Common-wealth of England my native Country and your three Kingdomes and viewing there to behold the sad and lamentable condition that now and for many years past it hath been intangled in which as Reason and Conscience together perswades me is occasioned chiefly for want of its ancient and ever customed way of Government to wir a King and Parliament which hath been unsetled altogether amongst us ever since the unhappy death of your Majesties late father our King by reason whereof our ancient and accustomed wholesome Laws both of Church and State are most strangely torn and massacred and all through the self-seeking ends of some certain persons which at present I judge not fit herein to be communicated who having gotten the power of the sword in their hands thought for ever to rule and reign over their opposers I think in spight of God or man But of late some of those I hope I may truly bless the name of the Lord for it who were the chief Rulers of those unhappy Differences between our King and his three poor distracted Kingdomes are taken out of this World insomuch that the Power of those remaining is much weakened But yet they will I perceive seek to tread in the felf same steps of them that have gone before them as seeking only to set up their own Interest although to the utter ruine of the Nation Studying how of littleness to become great hating the name of a King but would joyfully imbrace the power thereof yea I may say they seek far more Power than ever our late King did take upon him and all this done under the zealous pretence of Saintship and Religion the form or manner whereof is plainly manifested by their tollerating and setting up of strange Sects of Rel●gion as Anabaptists Quakers and such like seeking utterly to destroy and pull down our antient Orthodox Divines unless timely prevented I question not but your Majesty is very well knowing of the Power which for some few years past I have had in governing the English Army here in Scotland which Power when I had once obtained I did resolve as much as in me lay to keep until a fit time and opportunity should offer it self that I might imploy it for the glory of God and the good of your Majesty whose faithful Subject I humbly acknowledge my self to be Now so it is may it please your Majesty I plainly seeing and with a sad heart beholding the threatning hand of the Lords severe Judgements stretched forth against these three Kingdoms which forthwith must and will inevitably fall heavy upon us for ought as can be imagined to the utter ruin both of King and Subjects unless suddenly prevented by our humble submission to the Lord and an unfeigned Repentance of our former miscarriages May it also please your Majesty to give me leave to acquaint you that I humbly conceive I had never a better opportunity of doing my Country service in freeing them from their Egyptian bondage as I may term it and in restoring the Crown to the right owner thereof which if possible to be done shall be done with as much care safety and diligence as God shall enable me and that with as little wrong as may be either to King or Subjects which work when it is perfected I hope will tend to the settlement of our ancient Protestant Religion In tender consideration of all which Premises I most humbly beg that high favour of your Majesty that you will be graciously pleased to permit me to make these Proposals following First whether your Majesty will be pleased to accept of the real endeavours of me your unworthy Subject and Servant to be imployed in being a means in helping your Majesty to a quiet and safe possession of three Kingdoms which have with violence been so long time withheld from you If yea Then Will your Majesty be pleased to consent to a Treaty to be had between your Majesty and a free Parliament which shall be lawfully Elected and Chosen by the Country whose care I hope will be for the choosing of such honest godly and religious men as had no hand in the death of our late King or since his death have by any unlawful means whatsoever enjoyed any of his Lands Tenements or Rents or the Lands Tenements and Rents of the late Deans and Chapters or any of your late sequestred Subjects or which since his death have appeared violent in their acting against Kingship and consequently against your Majesty our lawful King Not in the least that I have any malice or evil will against such persons but for that my Conscience tells me that so long as self-interessed persons are suffered to sit in Parliament there is little good to be expected either for King or Kingdome for it is a hard thing for men to act against their own selves to the loss of their Lands and Livings which they suppose they have so honestly gained If your Majesty will be pleased to consent to such a Treaty and that thereupon it may be agreed upon that your Majesty shall be restored to your three Kingdoms which I question not but will be the event of such a Treaty Then I humbly beg that your Maj. would be pleased to think fit to declare what mercy and pitty you are pleased shall be shewn to all those that have been the chief of your enemies whose blood in severity of justice might deservedly be spilt upon their humble submission to your Majesty and their promise of future obedience for I hope you will judge that the onely way to joyn the hearts of the People of your three Kingdoms to pray for your happy success in all things and not only so but it will undoubtedly encourage them all to venter their Lives against all your opposers if any shall contest and also that your Majesty would be pleased to declare out of your gracious goodness what satisfaction shall be made to the poor Common Souldiery throughout your three Kingdomes who have been forced to take up Arms although against your Majesty for meer necessity to keep them and their Families from starving who indeed are much behind in their pay which will be utterly lost and undone unless your Majesty take compassion upon them which if you are pleased so to do I question not but you will find as much humility and submission from them as can

People and the quiet and welfare of this Common-W●●l●h as the re-admission of the Secluded Members in order to a Legal Dissolution of this Parliament by their own free consents and to issue Writs for a future Full Representative of the whole Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland under such Qualifications as may secure our Cause ●o convene on the twentieth of April next at Westminster for the establishing this Common Wealth upon the foundations of Justice and true Freedom And to take away all just Jealousies from you we do assure you that we shall joyn with you in the maintenance of those ends expressed in the enclosed 〈◊〉 and do expect your chearful concurrence with us And we desire to take God to witnesse that we have no inten ions or Purposes to return to our old Bondage but since the Providence of God hath made us free at the cost of so much blood we hope we shall never be found so unfaithful to God and his People as to lose so glorious a Cause But we do resolve with the Assistance of God to adhere to you in the continuing of our dear purchased Liberties both Spiritual and Civil The reason of o●r Proceedings in this manner may seem strange but if you duly consider the necessities of our Affairs and the present state of things you will certainly conclude nothing so safe to secure Publick Interest and to engage the Nations Peaceably to submit to a Free State most of these Members having given us full assurance that their Session in Parliament shall not be longer than absolute necessity will require to the putting the Government into Successive Parliaments they not being free so to Act by the old Writs as when they shall be called upon a Common-Wealth Account and its the Opinion of the truest Friends to a Free State That it cannot be consistent with the perpetual sitting of these Members being contrary to the Nature of such a Government And as we are confident the present Parliament now sitting will not Repeal any of the Acts Ordinances or Orders of this Parliament for Sales of Publick Disposition of Lands so we shall in our Station observe and cause to be observed all other Acts and Ordinances of this Parliament whatsoever and humbly interpose with the next succeeding Parliament not only to passe a further Act of Confirmation of all such Sales and Dispositions of Lands here in Scotland but also of all the Distributions and Dispositions of Lands and Houses in Ireland to the Souldiery Adventurers or any other Persons made by or in pursuance of any of the Acts Ordinances or Orders of this present Parliament or any pretended Parliamentary Authority And we entreat You to send up an Officer to give to the Lord General Monck an Account of Your Acquiescence with Us herein And if any dis-affected Persons shall hereby take occasion to make disturbance of the Peace of the Common Wealth either in favour of CHARLES STUART or any other pretended Authority We desire you to secure them till the pleasure of the Parliament or Council of State be known in that behalf you shall speedly receive Encouragement supplies of Monies and indeed it was not the least Motive to induce us to this way of Composure of Affairs that we might facilitate the raising of Monies for the subsistance of the Army and Navy which would not otherwise have been done if at all but with effusion of Blood We have nothing more at this time but to assure you that we shall ever remain Dear Brethren and Fellow-Soldiers Your very Affectionte Friends GEORGE MONCK Cols R. Knight John Clobery Tho. Read Jo. Hubblethorne Leonard Litcot Tho. Sanders William Eyre Rich. Mosse William Farley Arthur Evelin John Streater Jo. Butler Quart Ma. Gen. L. Cols Ethelbert Morgan James Mutlow James Emerson Joseph Witter Dennis Pepper Majs James Dennis Rich Wagstaff Th. Johnson Fra. Nichols Jer. Smith Nath. Barton Tho. Higgs John Clark Capts. W. Goodwin Hen. Ogle White Hall Feb. 21. 1659. That was his Speech at the re-admitting the secluded Members