A letter from General Monck from Dalkeith, 13 October 1659. Directed as followeth. For the Right Honorable William Lenthal, Esquire, Speaker; to be communicated to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, at Westminster. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A76003 of text xxx in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E1000_23). 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. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A76003 Wing A848 Thomason E1000_23 ESTC R1188 99859159 99859159 111226 2240868492

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A76003) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 111226) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 148:E1000[23]) A letter from General Monck from Dalkeith, 13 October 1659. Directed as followeth. For the Right Honorable William Lenthal, Esquire, Speaker; to be communicated to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, at Westminster. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670. England and Wales. Parliament. 6 p. [s.n.], London : printed, an. Dom. 1659. Annotation on Thomason copy: "8ber [i.e. October] 22". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. eebo A letter from General Monck from Dalkeith, 13 October 1659. :$bDirected as followeth. For the Right Honorable William Lenthal, Esquire, Speaker; to be [no entry] 1659 7 481 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. 2013-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-07 Sampled and proofread 2013-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

A LETTER FROM General Monck . From Dalkeith , 13 October 1659. Directed as followeth .

For the Right Honorable William Lenthal , Esquire , Speaker ; To be Communicated to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England , at Westminster .

London , Printed , An. Dom. 1659.

For the Right Honorable William Lenthall , Esquire , Speaker ; To be Communicated to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England , at Westminster . Right Honourable ,

I Received Yours of the 7th Instant , and cannot but with thankfulness Acknowledge the Great Grace and Favour the Parliament are pleased to vouchsafe to me , in taking Notice of my weak and worthless Endeavours in their Service . I confess such Encouragement is sufficient to Reward the Highest Merits ; I hope I shall make such Use of It , not only to satisfie my self as the best Recompence for my former poor Services , but as a Motive to Future Obedience and Loyalty to them : I bless the Lord I have a Witness in mine own Heart , That my Designs tend not to any other End than my Countries Good , and I shall with more Cheerfulness return the Sword into Your Hands , than ever I receiv'd it with , and desire to attend Your Pleasure if You shall have no further Use of my Service : I shall give You the best Account I can of the Forces here , and endeavour to keep them in due Obedience to You , ( but I cannot undertake for men of some Spirits . ) I shal not trouble your Councils with my Impertinencies any further , but Intreat You to give me leave to mind You ( what I know is much upon Your Hearts already ) That You would be pleased to hasten the Settlement of the Government of these Nations in a Commonwealth Way , in Successive Parliaments , so to be Regulated in Elections as You shall think fit ; and that You will increase your Favour to the Ministers of the Gospel , and the Sober Professours thereof , and God will be in the midst of you , and bless you , and you need not doubt but the Hearts and Hands of all good men will be with you , and for my self I desire , That you would be assured that I do not think my life too precious to hazard in the Defence of The Supream Authority , the Parliament of England . The Lord bless your Councils with Peace and Success , and make you a Terrour to the Nations round about you , which is the Earnest Prayer of Him , who is ,

Your Lor pps . most humble and faithful Servant , George Monck . Dalkeith , 13. Octob. 1659.