Whitehall,  Jprill  9&rd  1657.
Indorsed. — For  Major-GeneraM  Morgan  att  Aberdeen  or
elsewhere  in  Scotland  these.1

CCLXXVII

General  Monck  to  the  Protector.8

May  itt  please  your  Highnesse, — I  received  your  High-
nesse' lettre  this  day  about  9  of  the  clock  in  the  morning,  and
your  Highnesse's  commands  shall  bee  carefully  observed  in
searching  the  post  lettres  on  Saturday  and  Tuesday  and  the
following  weeks,  and  likewise  I  shall  write  to  the  cheif  officers
of  the  severall  regiments,  that  if  any  such  petition  should  come
to  the  regiments  they  may  know  who  they  come  from,  and
who  they  are  directed  to,  to  prevent  the  businesse  from  going
any  further,8  and  I  am  confident  I  can  engage  for  all  regiments
in  Scotland  (unlesse  itt  bee  one)  that  neither  your  Highnesse
nor  the  Parliament  shall  bee  troubled  with  any  petitions,  or
any  other  trouble  from  these  partes, — I  remayne,  Your  High-
nesse^ most  humble  servant,  George  Monck.
Dalkeith,  9£  May  1657.
CCLXXVIII

Order  by  General  Monck.4

Sir, — Having  received  a  letter  from  his  Highnesse,  by  which
I  understand  that  the  petition  that  was  presented  by  the
officers  of  the  army  to  the  Parliament  hath  bin  since  printed,6
and  a  postscript  added  of  a  very  bad  and  dangerous  conse-
quence, and  itt  is  certainly  sett  on  by  some  people  ill  disposed

1  Morgan  was  sent  for  to  take  a  command  in  the  expedition  to  Flanders.
Colonel  Daniel  was  appointed  by  Monck  to  command  in  the  north  of  Scotland
during  Morgan's  absence,  and  was  given  the  pay  of  a  major-general.  Thurloe,
State  Papers,  vol.  vi.  pp.  332,  366,  402,  424.  *  Clarke  Manuscripts,  li.  7.
3  A  petition  against  the  offer  of  the  crown  to  Cromwell,  and  the  revival  of
monarchy.     See  Thurloe,  State  Papers,  vol.  vi.  pp.  292,  310.
