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EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A92670 Wing S170 Thomason 669.23[50] ESTC R211584 99870300 99870300 163706 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. A92670) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163706) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f23[50]) A letter to his Excellency the Lord General Monck Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. 1 sheet ([1] p.) [s.n.], London : Printed in the year. 1659. [i.e. 1660] Signed: Your Servant and Honorer T.S. Complaining of the proceedings of the Rump. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb. 18." Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A92670 R211584 (Thomason 669.23[50]). civilwar no A letter to his Excellency the Lord General Monck. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of 1659 1554 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Pip Willcox Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Pip Willcox Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER To his EXCELLENCY The Lord General MONCK . My Lord , AMongst the throng of persons that crowd to tell their Grievances , and to beg your relief , as an English-man I cannot be unconcern'd , nor you in Justice refuse to hear me : I do not intend to trouble you with a long series of the unhappy War , your own Experience in that is able to inform you ; but onely to give you some little accompt faithfully of what hath happen'd since Lambert's last Interrupting that which so daringly assumes the Name of a PARLIAMENT , with more Impudence than Justice , with more Madness than Merit : When Lambert had by violence forc'd the Members from sitting in the House , and as indiscreetly left them at liberty , you were then the onely person who might visibly restore them , then they look'd upon you as their Redeemer , which you really were . Having now once more by your favour gras'pd a power which they believ'd they should not out-live , to secure themselves as well from you as others , they commanded you up , and under a pretence of taking you into an Administration of Affairs with them , in stead of a General which you were in the North , and his Excellency , they made you a single Commissioner , the last of foure ; and lest that number , whereof three were a Quorum , should not ballance you , they added another ; so that you must be over-awed in Vote , and submit to those who never yet durst openly make you their Enemy , and are unfit to be your Friends . When they saw ( with Eyes full of Malice and Jealousie ) how your whole March was but one entire Triumph , and that all persons , of all Conditions , Ages , and Sexes , met you , either to unbosome themselves and tell their Miseries , and pray your Help ; or , give you the Acclamations due to a Blood-less Victory ; they now thought you too great and too good to live , and were preparing your Herse and Cypress , while you brought them the Olive-branch of Peace : First , to try you , they offered you an Oath , which I think no sober conscientious person will take , it being in effect but to bind up the Hand of Providence , and to set ones Face against that Power , which ( for ought we know ) may intend us for our good , or punishment , what we so much fear ; and to either we ought quietly to submit . This not taking , they endevoured , first to render you odious , that they might more easily destroy you , and send you unpityed to your grave and scorn'd , robbing you first of that which should have sweetly preserv'd your name to Posterity , your Honour : To effect this , they commanded you to go with your Army into the City , and there to Imprison their Members , Break down their Gates , Port-cullises , Chains and Posts , and whatsoever look'd like a Fence for that Freedome hath so long been theirs ; what an angry and sad Face you saw the City wear for that action , you know : Nor would their Malice to your Fame have ended here , for you were to assist at the horrid murthering of some Citizens and Common-council Men , whom they intended to hang at their own dores , in terror to the rest ; when this was done , you were to disarm them , and to level their Walls to the ground , and to have found in their Ruines your own : For , when by these accursed actions they had fix'd an Odium upon you , then were you to fall a sacrifice to their Ambition , whom nothing can satisfie but the Tyranny over three Nations at once , and from a Deliverer become a Victim : Your prudence wisely foresaw this , and finding how odious they endevoured to make you , and how closely they had contriv'd your ruine , you put a stop to their horrid Designes , and by countenancing the City in their Equitable Desires , have rais'd in all such an admiration , and for your self so great a stock of glory , as you cannot , but by some strange act of Indiscretion , forfeit or lose ; you cannot but take notice to what a strange height of Joy that good action rais'd every sober person , and if you wanted Inclinations in your own Soul to do us good , you might be lighted to them by those Fires which were kindled for your Triumph that Night , and would ( had you gone on ) in all probability , have prov'd your Funeral Pile , few days after . You have fairly began our Deliverance , leave it not here , for your Safety and our Good are so link'd together and alli'd , that neither can fall singly : You have by an act of Honour and Justice exasperated a Party against you , whose Principles are damnable , whose Spirits are implacable ; by the one they pretend and believe , by a strange kind of Saintship , a Title to all our Lives and Fortunes , and that they were by Grace born our Heirs ; by the other they have in them so great a thirst after Revenge , like Italians , they kill with a smile ; and however they may for Safety seem Friends , are never to be atton'd ; How hardly they forget and pardon Injuries , the late Northern Expedition will manifest ; for when the Officers of Lambert's Army by an early defection and submission thought to preserve their places , though the first did their business without a blow strook , yet not one of forty was continued in his Command ; and if they urge their Mercy to Lambert , 't is not their Clemency but Necessity , hoping by his Interest among the Fanatiques , to ballance , or countermand and check your Power : Nor is there any thing so Sacred that can bind them , they having violated all Covenants and Oaths , and it is to be beleiv'd , press others to do the like , that they may make others as hateful and abominable as themselves ; in this imitating their Master the Devil , who is watchful and industrious for our damnation , for envy and company : Besides , my Lord , you have provok'd them , by fixing upon them a Character in your Speech , which the whole Body of our Language cannot equal , and they can never forgive or forget , for it will live as long as the name of RUMP , that spawn'd them . Having thus deservedly made them your Enemies , it is too late to make them your Friends , nor can they expect it ; and unless you will be so imprudent as to cast off the love and protection of all sober persons , and betake your self to a villanous , accursed , hated , deformed Monster of Confusion , which your self have condemned and branded with an eternal mark of Infamy , you cannot own or act with them , or for them : You gave them a fair time to perform your just Desires , which they have slighted , and forfeited your protection ; if you stand by them any longer , you put your hand to your owne destruction , to farther it ; and your Delay , which is all they ask , is but the Basis of your ruine ; you may see by their favourable censure of Lambert what they intend ; and you know who were last Week in consultation , and what Party he was to head : Your Ignorance cannot , your Courage will not , Let not your Irresolution destroy you and the three Nations ; on you depends their hopes , frustrate them not , lest you fall with them , and suffer not this Insulting Dragons Taile of Tyranny to oppress us longer ; you have a glorious opportunity put by Providence into your hands to make your self Great and Safe , Beloved of Good men , and Terrible to the Bad , lose it not by Delaying ; that ( when your Name is read in the number of those Deliverers whom Fame and Truth have faithfully committed to Posterity ) you may be remembred with Joy and Honour in after Generations : But , if on the contrary , your patient but dangerous expecting from these Tyrants a Settlement , make you lose the Glory of so brave an Action , you will assuredly fall with our Hopes , unpityed , accursed , and with your own , conclude the three Nations Tragoedy . Your Servant and Honorer T. S. LONDON , Printed in the Year . 1659.