OLIVER CROMWELL'S

LETTERS AND SPEECHES:

WITH ELUCIDATIONS.

BY

THOMAS CARLYLE.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:

SCRIBNER, WELFORD, AND COMPANY.

1871.

LONDON

ROBSON AND SONS, PRINTERS, PANCRAS ROAD, N.W.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

PART IV.

SECOND CIVIL WAR. 1648.

LETTER LIX. To Hon. W. Lenthall: Pembroke, 14 June

1648

Besieging Pembroke.

LX. To Major Saunders: Pembroke, 17 June

1648

To seize Sheriff Morgan and Sir Trevor Williams,

two Rebel Welshmen.

LXI. To Lord (late Sir Thomas) Fairfax: Pem-

broke, 28 June 1648

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Siege of Pembroke.

LXII. To Hon. W. Lenthall: Pembroke, 11 July

1648

PRESTON Battle

Surrender of Pembroke.

LETTER LXIII. To Lancashire Committee: Preston, 17

Aug. 1648

Battle of Preston.

LXIV. To Hon. W. Lenthall: Warrington, 20

Aug. 1648

Battle of Preston.

LXV. To York Committee: Warrington, 20

Aug. 1648

To pursue the Scots.

LXVI. To the same: Wigan, 23 Aug. 1648

The same.

LXVII. To O. St. John, Esq.: Knaresborough,

1 Sept. 1648.

On Preston Battle: the Handful of Grass.

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LETTER LXVIII. To Lord Wharton: Knaresborough,

2 Sept. 1648

Religious Reflections; Congratulations on public

events and private.

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DECLARATION

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LETTER LXIX. To Lord Fairfax: Alnwick, 11 Sept. 1648

Col. Cowell's Widow.

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LXX. To the Governor of Berwick: Alnwick,

15 Sept. 1648

Summons.

LXXI. To Marquis Argyle, and the Well-affected

Lords now in arms in Scotland: near

Berwick, 16 Sept. 1648.

Announces Messengers coming to them.

LXXII. To Scots Committee of Estates :

Berwick, 16 Sept. 1648 .

His Reasons for entering Scotland.

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LXXIII. To Earl Loudon: Cheswick, 18 Sept.

1648

Intentions and Proceedings as to Scotland.

PROCLAMATION

LETTER LXXIV. To Scots Committee of Estates: Nor-

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ham, 21 Sept. 1648

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In excuse for some disorder by the Durham horse in

Scotland.

LXXV. To Hon. W. Lenthall: Berwick, 2 Oct.

1648

Surrender of Berwick and Carlisle.

LXXVI. To Lord Fairfax: Berwick, 2 Oct. 1648

To have Sir Arthur Haselrig take care of Berwick.

LXXVII. To Scots Committee of Estates: Edin-

burgh, 5 Oct. 1648

His Demands concerning Scotland.

LXXVIII. To Hon. W. Lenthall: Dalhousie, 8

Oct. 1648

Colonel R. Montgomery: For Two-thousand of the

Preston Captives.

LXXIX. To the same: Dalhousie, 9 Oct. 1648

Account of his Proceedings in Scotland.

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