A letter sent from General Monck. Dated at Caldstreame Dec. 29. 1659. Superscribed to the Right honorable William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker to the Right honorable the Parliament of England, to be communicated to the rest of the Members of Parliament at London. Read in Parliament Jan. 6. Ordered by the Parliament that this letter be forthwith printed and published. Thomas St Nicolas Clerk of the Parliament. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A76013 of text R28189 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E1013_6). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. 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A76013) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 168756) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 150:E1013[6]) A letter sent from General Monck. Dated at Caldstreame Dec. 29. 1659. Superscribed to the Right honorable William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker to the Right honorable the Parliament of England, to be communicated to the rest of the Members of Parliament at London. Read in Parliament Jan. 6. Ordered by the Parliament that this letter be forthwith printed and published. Thomas St Nicolas Clerk of the Parliament. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. England and Wales. Parliament. [2], 6 p. printed by John Streater and John Macock, printers to the Parliament, London : 1659 [i.e. 1660] Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan. 7.". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A76013 R28189 (Thomason E1013_6). civilwar no A letter sent from General Monck. Dated at Caldstreame Dec. 29. 1659. Superscribed to the Right honorable William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of 1660 1041 2 0 0 0 0 0 19 C The rate of 19 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-02 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-03 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER Sent from General Monck . Dated at Caldstreame Dec. 29. 1659. SUPERSCRIBED To the Right honorable William Lenthall Esquire , Speaker to the Right honorable the Parliament of ENGLAND , To be Communicated to the rest of the Members of Parliament at London . Read in Parliament Jan. 6. ORdered by the Parliament that this Letter be forthwith printed and published . Thomas St Nicolas Clerk of the Parliament . LONDON , Printed by John Streater and John Macock , Printers to the Parliament . 1659. A LETTER Sent from General Monck to the Speaker , &c. Right Honorable , I Received yours of the 22d instant , and desire to return to our good God hearty thanks , that hee hath bin pleas●d to owne and appeare for his people in such glorious instances of mercy and deliverance . I blesse the Lord , I never doubted of his presence and success in this undertaking , being so righteous a Cause ; and had long since put into 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 bin fully informed . My last answer to the Lord Lambert , who sent several Messengers to invite mee to a second Treaty , was , T hat I could not treat without authority from the Commissioners for the government of the Army , and to that end desired a Passe 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 Councel of Officers , That they could not consent thereunto : and since that , I have not heard from them . I have your Army ( I blesse God ) upon the River Tweed , within three houres ready to be drawn together , and they are very cheerfull and unanimous , willing to endure any hardship for your Service . The last night Capt. Campbelt came express from Ireland , giving a full account of their affection to the Parliament , and of the late Transactions there ; That they had seized Dublin Castle , and secured Jones and others , with a Declaration to stand by and own your Authority : for which ( on this instant ) wee kept a day of Thanksgiving . They writ also to the Irish Brigade in England , which I dispatched to them . Sir Hardresse Waller gives mee an account , that all the Forces and Garrisons in Ireland had declared for you . This is such a mercy , that I hope the Lord will make us sensible of , and careful to improve . They required my opinion , as to managing of the Affairs of the Army , which in such an urgent necessity I presumed to give . I have disposed of most of the vacant Commands in Scotland to very honest men , who are ready to die for your Service , or to disband at your Command . And before your Letter came to hand , I had disposed of Col. Saunders and Major Bartons Commands , the Lord Lamb●rts Forces pressing upon mee . I could not leave my vacant Places unsupplied ; but I know that ( this Work prospering ) you will have opportunities enough to gratifie them : Capt. Izods place is reserved for him according to your pleasure . I humbly thank the Members of the Councel for that Great Honour that they were pleased to conferr upon me , and hope you never shall finde but such an absolute obedience from mee to your Commands , that I shall be more ready to return that Commission then receive it . I believe that you never doubted of my persevering in those good Principles I declared for , and that I should comfortably ( if the Lord had pleased to frown upon us ) have suffered in this most Righteous undertaking . I have made ready to March , but am unwilling to hazzard your Justice and Authority upon a Fight , when it may be done with more security . I shall attend your further Command , and desire the Lord to blesse your Forces and Counsels , and to restore you in your just Authority ; which is both the prayer and endeavour of Sir , Your most humble and faithfull Servant George Monck . Caldstreame 29. December 1659. I thought fit to acquaint you , That my Lord Warreston hath endeavoured to stirr up the people of this Nation as much as hee could against your Interest . Col. Lyscot having been very faithfull and active for the Parliament in this Undertaking , I entreat your Lordships to be mindefull of him for a Regiment of Horse . I have given him the command of a Foot-Regiment , but hee was alwaies of Horse , and is a very honest and stout Gentleman , and fit to command a Regiment of Horse . I have sent your Lordships the Copies of my late Letters , and of the Officers here , to my Lord Lambert , and the Officers at Newcastle ; and also to the Commissioners of Parliament at Portsmouth , that you may be acquainted with out Transactions . Major Knight has Col. Saunders Regiment , and Capt. Prime is Major . I entreat you to communicate this to the rest of the worthy Members of Parliament with you . George Monck .