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Col.  Lilburne  to  Major-General  Lambert.1

Right  Honorable, — In  my  last  I  intreated  some  directions
concerning  the  publishing  the  Proclamation,  because  wee  are
in  the  darke  heere  about  itt,  whether  itt  may  bee  seasonable
before  the  Act  of  Union  and  Pardon  come  forth ;  butt  because
I  was  desirous  to  try  the  pulse  of  some  of  these  people,  I

1  Clarke  Manuscripts,  1.  5.
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