His Majestys gracious message to General Monck, Commander in Chief of his Majesties Army in Scotland, and to the Lords, knights, gentlemen, &c. sitting in council at the city of Edenburgh. Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79219 of text R211383 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.22[22]). 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. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A79219 Wing C3035 Thomason 669.f.22[22] ESTC R211383 99870112 99870112 163605 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A79219) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163605) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f22[22]) His Majestys gracious message to General Monck, Commander in Chief of his Majesties Army in Scotland, and to the Lords, knights, gentlemen, &c. sitting in council at the city of Edenburgh. Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1 sheet ([1] p.) [s.n.], Printed at Paris, cum privilegio : 1659. Dated at end: Signed by our self at our court at Orleance, this nine and twentieth day of November 1659. Annotation on Thomason copy: "xber [i.e. December]. 15." Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Albemarle, George Monck, -- Duke of, 1608-1670 -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales. -- Army -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A79219 R211383 (Thomason 669.f.22[22]). civilwar no C. R. His Majestys gracious message to General Monck, Commander in Chief of his Majesties Army in Scotland, and to the Lords, knights, gentl Charles II, King of England 1659 923 5 0 0 0 0 0 54 D The rate of 54 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion C. R. His MAJESTYS Gracious Message to General MONCK , Commander in Chief of his Majesties Army in Scotland , and to the Lords , Knights , Gentlemen , &c. sitting in Council at the City of EDENBURGH . Right Trusty and well beloved , HAving received an Overture from several of our Loving Subjects in our Kingdom of Scotland , wherein is expressed very ample testimonies of their good affections to our Self , and their Solemn Protestation to endeavour to the utmost of their power , the establishing Us in the Royal Throne and Dignity of our Father , to the end that all our loving Subjects may be redeemed from those horrid outrages , that they are now under , by that sad and destructive Government of the mercilesse Sword . For the satisfaction of all Our loving Subject , we have thought it very sutable to the duty of Our place , to do Our part to so good a work , in which we shall not think it below our Kingly Dignity , to Descend to any particular which may compose and settle the affections of Our meanest Subjects , since we are so conscious to Our Self of such upright intentions and endeavours , and only of such which are for the Peace and Happinesse of our bleeding Kingdoms ; in which the prosperity of Our Subjects must be included , that we wish the most secret thought of our heart , were publisht to their view and examination . We have several times done all that we could , to manifest the clearnesse and uprightness of Our intentions to all our Loving Subjects , as likewise in Our last Propositions publishd in print by some of our friends in England , Signed by our Selfat Brussels ; wherein we made provision both for all Our loving Subjects and the Souldiery , so far as might be with safety to Our Self and Kingdoms . And now at last , being fully satisfied of your present ( we hope successful ) proceedings , in behalf of our Self and our Parliament chosen by our Royal Father , do from the bottom of our hearts , without fraud , deceit , or any sinister by end , Declare to you our Trusty and well beloved Subjects , That we shall be willing , and have already provided for your assistance of our own Native Countey 15000 horse and foot , being accomodated by the two Christian Kings , with Arms , Ammunition and all other provision , necessary for the carrying on so great a work , to establish the Gospel , and settle a true Peace amongst Our loving Subjects in Our long distracted Kingdoms ; Being confident , and assuring Our Self , that we may put our whole trust in you , and our honourable Counsel elected by the good people of our Kingdom of Scoland . Not doub●●ng in the least of your fidelity , though lately we were in great danger of being ensnared by that unparallel'd Traytor Sir George Booth and his party , amongst whom many of our Good friends were treacherously drawn in , by his Machavelion devises , to their very great detriment , both by imprisonment and losse of their Estates . We do further hereby Declare , That whereas some of Our reproachful enemies have cast upon Us that false aspersion of forsaking the true Protestant Religion ( thinking thereby to make us odious in the eys of Our Loving Subjects ) and that if we should be established in the Royal Throne of our Father , we would utterly destroy and exterpa● the Gospel , with all the good godly people in Our Kingdoms , and advance the Romane Catholick Religion , We do abhorre any such thoughts , having been from Our infancy nurtured and brought up in the true , ancient , Catholick and Apostol●ck Faith ; in defence whereof ( God enabling us ) we shall freely hazzard our Lives and fortunes ; Not seeking Ou own Interest so much as the Interest , Rights , Priviledges , Lawes , Liberties , and Freedoms of our long enslaved Sub●ects , under the Egyptian bondage of Taxes , Excise , unusual Customs , Assessements , and Free-quartering of a Mercinary Army , Imposd on them by tyrannous Usurpers , who have by will and power governed our Kingdoms , destroying and massacring our Loving Subjects at pleasure ; during the time of our exilement . We shall now conjure all Our good Subjects ( of what degree soever ) by all the Bonds of Love , Duty or Obedience , that are precious to good men , to joyn with us for the recovery of the Peace of Our Kingdoms , and for the preservation thereof , to remove all their doubts and fears , which may interrupt their affection to our Self , and all their jealousies and apprehensions which may lessen their charity to each other , And then ( if the sins of ou● Kingdoms have not prepared an evitable judgment for us all ; God will yet make us a great and more glorious King over a free and happy people , then ever yet were any of Our Predecessors . Signed by Our Self at Our Court atOrleance , this nine and twentieth day of November 1659. C. R. GOD Save the KING . Printed at Paris , Cum Priviledgio , 1659.