A letter concerning Colonel Monks surprizing the town and castle of Carrickfergus and Belfast, in Ireland; and his taking General Major Monro prisoner. For the Honorable, Col: Iohn Moor, a member of the House of Commons. Clark, Robert, Captain of the Swan frigate. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79879 of text R211003 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.13[26]). 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A79879 Wing C4487 Thomason 669.f.13[26] ESTC R211003 99869745 99869745 162921 2240941559

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A79879) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162921) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f13[26]) A letter concerning Colonel Monks surprizing the town and castle of Carrickfergus and Belfast, in Ireland; and his taking General Major Monro prisoner. For the Honorable, Col: Iohn Moor, a member of the House of Commons. Clark, Robert, Captain of the Swan frigate. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons, London : September 30. 1648. Dated and signed at end: From aboard the Swan Frigot in Chester River, 24 September, 1648. Your Honors Servant to command, Robert Clark. Giving an account of Col. Monk's movements and saying he has brought over Maj. Gen. Monro in charge of Capt. Browf -- Cf. Steele. Order to print signed: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Campaigns -- Early works to 1800. Ireland -- History -- 1625-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A79879 R211003 (Thomason 669.f.13[26]). civilwar no A letter concerning Colonel Monks surprizing the town and castle of Carrickfergus and Belfast, in Ireland; and his taking General Major Monr Clark, Robert, Captain of the Swan frigate. 1648 2 345 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. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A LETTER Concerning Colonel Monks surprizing the Town and Castle of Carrickfergus and Belfast , in Ireland ; and his taking General Major Monro Prisoner . For the Honorable , Col: Iohn Moor , a Member of the House of Commons . Honorable Sir ,

MAy it please you , at present being arrived into Chester water , having been to the Northward , and came on yesterday out of the Bay of Carrickfergus , where upon Saturday was Sevennight Col. Monk did surprize the Town and Castle of Carrickfergus , and the same day did surprize Belfast : I have brought over with me the General Major Monro Prisoner unto your Honors : Upon Thursday last when I received him aboard , Colonel Monk did march away toward Colrayn , I pray God give him good success , he is in great want of men and money ; here is one Captain Browf come over in charge with the General Major , to whom I refer you to further relation at his coming to you . Thus with my humble service presented unto you , I take leave and remain ,

From aboard the Swan Frigot in Chester River , 24 September , 1648. Your Honors Servant to command , ROBERT CLARK . POSTSCRIPT . SIR ,

I Have sent to the Commissioners of the Navy , to send me a Bill of credit , or money to victual our Ship to come to Portsmouth , our victual being out , but could not deny Colonel Monk , I hope then to see you . Sir , you may please to acquaint the Honorable House with the News , if you please , I hope it is acceptable Service that is done .

R. C.

ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament , That this Letter be forthwith Printed and Published .

H : Elsynge , Cler. Parl. D. Com.

London , Printed for Edward Husband , Printer to the Honorable House of Commons , September 30. 1648.