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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

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

I desire you will joyn with us in your desires that this Parliament may be restored to the excution of their duties and trust with freedome and honour I have no more but my hearty Love and service to you all desiring God to bless you all and make you happy instruments for the good these Nations in your severall places which shall be alwayes the Prayer of dear Friends Your humble Servant and fellow Souldier G. M. Edenburgh Novemb. 29. 1659. To the Right Honourable Vice Admiral Goodson to be Communicated to the rest of the Officers of the Fleet in Answer to the Letter that was sent to me from them A LETTER Of General George Moncks Dated at Leicester 23 Ianuary and directed unto Mr. Rolle to be communicated unto the rest of the Gentry of Devon occasioned by a late Letter from the Gentry of Devon dated at Exceter 14 Ianuary and sent by Mr. Bampfield to the Speaker to be communicated unto the Parliament Read in Parliament Jan. 26. Most honoured and dear Friends MEeting with a Paper dated at Exon the 13 instant directed to William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Parliament and subscribed by divers of my friends and relations purporting the recalling the Members secluded 1648. as the best expedient for establishing these Nations upon a foundation of lasting peace I have taken the boldness from my relation to some of you as allyed and my affectionate respects to all of you as dear Friends and Countrey-men to represent to your consideration my present apprehensions of the state of Affairs here in order to all our better satisfactions wherein I humbly crave your leave of freedom without prejudice Before these unhappy Wars the Government of these Nations was Monarchical in Church and State these wars have given birth and growth to several Interests both in Church and State heretofore not known though now upon many accounts very considerable as the Presbyterian Independent Anabaptist and Sectaries of all sorts as to Ecclesiasticks and the Purchasers of the Kings Queens Princes Bishops Deans and Chapters and all other forfeited Estates and all those engaged in these Wars against the King as to civils These Interests again are so interwoven by Purchases and intermarriages and thereby forfeited as I think upon rational grounds it may be taken for granted That no Government can be either good peaceful or lasting to these Nations that doth not rationally include and comprehend the security and preservrtion of all the foresaid Interests both Civil and Spiritual I mean so far as by the Word of God they are warranted to be protected and preserved If this be so Then that Government under which we formerly were both in State and Church viz. Monarchy cannot possibly be admitted for the future in these Nations because its support is taken away and because its exclusive of all the former Interests both Civil and Spiritual all of them being incompatible with Monarchical Vniformity in Church and State thus expired That Government then that is most able to comprehend and protect all Interests as aforesaid must needs be Republique Wherefore to me it 's no small doubt if upon the Premises to admit of the Members secluded 1648. were not to obstruct our peace and continue our War rather than establish the one and end the other in that very many of those Members assert the Monarchical Interest together with the abolition of all Laws made since their seclusion Which I fear upon accompt of self-preservation both of Life and Estate as well as Spiritual Liberty will immediatly involve all these Nations in most horrid and bloody War afresh the very apprehensions whereof I confess I do infinitely dread and submit the dangerous consequence thereof to your prudent considerations and the rather seeing the Army also will never endure it Having thus briefly laid before you the present condition of Affairs let me now intreat you to consider whither it were not better to desist from that Paper and submit to the proceedings of this Parliament who have resolved to fill up their House determin their sitting and prepare a way for future successions of Parliament by which means being full and thereby comprehending the whole Interest of these Nations they may through God's Mercy and all our patiences establish such a Government in the way of a Common-wealth as may be comprehensive of all interests both Spirituall and Civil to the glory of God and the weale and peace of the whole But if by your impatiencies they be obstructed our peace will be so much the longer a stranger to us and we thereby a prey to our selves and all forreign Enemies Wherefore humbly pressing these upon your serious considerations with all the friendly and affectionate respects and service to you all I remain Dearest Friends Your very humble and affectionate Servant GEORGE MONCK Leicester 21. Jan. 1659. For the honoured Robert Rolles Esq to be communicated to the Gentlemen of Devonshire who signed the late Letter to the Speaker of the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England A LETTER FROM THE Officers at Whitehal To the OFFICERS under General Monck In SCOTLAND Dear Brethen and Fellow Souldiers WE most heartily wish Grace and Truth to be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord And also we desire the God and Father of all Grace to add to your Faith Vertue to Vertue Knowledg and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly Kindness and to Brotherly Kindness Charity Dear Brethren We cannot but be deeply affected and afflicted in our own spirits to consider of your dissatisfaction with us upon mistaken grounds You have known us this many years to be your faithful Brethren that durst do nothing that is sinful And we may affirm with plainness honesty and simplicity of heart we have done nothing in the late Revolution but that which the Providence of the most wise God prepared to our hands and led us unto without so much as one half hours time to design or resolve to take that course we were necessitated unto Since which most of such persons that were not clear in the present and sudden Action have made their acknowledment of their full satisfaction and we are mutually reconciled and they are received and tendered by us as affectionate Brethren And for a more full Narrative of the providential Grounds and gradual Steps that led us to that Work yet with aking hearts and as an Answer to your Queries signed in your name by William Clerk Secretary bearing date the 22. instant We refer you to a Book Intituled The Armies Plea and also The Armies Declaration relation thereunto being had we hope will give you satisfaction Loving Brethren What have we done that you are offended we are not conscious that any thing is acted by us upon the publick Theater but that which we judge is acceptable to God And what we have done hath proceeded from uprightness of heart and for the glory of God