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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.
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England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800.
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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.