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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64023	Two letters the one, sent by the lord mayor, aldermen, and common council of London, to His Excellency, the Lord Gen. Monck, by their sword-bearer, which letter was sent in answer to a letter formerly publish'd, and sent to the common council by His Excellency, delivered to them by Col. Markham, and Col. Atkins : the other, His Excellencies answer thereunto.	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing T3481; ESTC R38966	2,405	10

TWO LETTERS The One Sent by the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of LONDON To his Excellency The Lord Gen. Monck By Their Sword-Bearer Which Letter was sent in Answer to a Letter formerly publish'd and sent to the Common Council by his Excellency Delivered to them by Col. Markham and Col. Atkins The other His Excellencies Answer Thereunto LONDON Printed by John Macock 1659. The Letter of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of the City of LONDON Right Honourable WE dare not enter upon the answer to the merits of your Excellencies Letter of the ●●th of November which came to our hands the 23d of the same which was the first and only that came to us without Prefacing our hearty and thankful admiring and acknowledging the transcendent Mercy of God in putting into your Heart those Pious and Noble Resolutions to appear at such an Exigent to be the glorious Instrument in his hand both to Assert and Vindicate the greatest Interest both Civil and Religious of these Nations And next That your singular Humility of Spirit and Affection to this City in Communicating to us so early those your just Resolves and inviting us to share in the Honour of Assisting to the obtaining of those great and glorious Ends in which the ●●ppiness of these Nations in general and of the City as a Corporation consists In all which our Spirits were both enlightned and warmed by a spark from your zeal and actuated by God to a present activity in our sphere and capacity in compliance with your Excellencies advice as we trust the whole world that hath seen our Actings since the receipt of your Letter can bear us witness and that we hope may be our sufficient plea for pardon for our not returning a more timely answer to your Excellencies said Letter But we desire your Excellency to believe that was principally retarded by suspition cast on the Authentiqueness of it by those who had the 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 Writing what VVe hope all Our Actings since the Receipt of Your Excellencies Advice have evidenced That VVe have cordially concurred with Your Excellency in disowning the Author of that Force who in●errupted the Parliament and ravish'd the Birth-right of these Nations by daring to null and make void Acts of Parliament and We 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 Referre 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 Honorable and Christ●● Undertakings shall Remain Guildhall London Decemb. 29. 1659. 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 This Letter is Conveighed by the Sword-bearer of London by the special Directions of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Court of Common-Council The Letter of his Excellency the Lord General 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 Endeavours of the Parliaments Army under my Command far transcending our Merits and Services As to those Ends which we then declared f●r 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 ●ere 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 slivery 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 our of the Captivity of Tyranny and Arbitrary Government could not ever consent to such illegal and unjust proceedings As wee do acknowledge your great activity in promoting those great ends which wee lately represented to you so wee do heartily thank you for the honor and encouragement which you have been pleased in this your Letter to give to the Parliaments Army here for our selves wee having nothing to seek wee blesse 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 Wee received your enclosed Declaration and do cheerfully join 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 wee received our Commissions and do hope that you that have been so eminently Instrumental in their restoring will heartily concurr with us therein and shall to the utmost of our power defend the freedom of successive Parliaments and the ●●erties Spiritual and Civil of the People in these Nations and shall encourage in our Stations the Godly and Learned Ministers and shall continue faithfull 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 acknowledgements to that opportunity and remain New-Castle Jan. 6. 1659. Your Lordships very humble Servant George Monck