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Letter from the Clerk to the Long Parliament. (Com- 

 municated by William Wilson, B.A., formerly Scholar 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge.) 



The following copy of a Letter from the Clerk to the 

 Long Parliament may be of some interest to the members 

 of our Club. It contains what I should suppose to be some- 

 what unusual in such a document — an interlineation (viz., 

 the word Ordinance), which is printed for convenience sake 

 in Italics. The contractions, etc., are reproduced as far as 

 possible, and memoranda are appended containing all the 

 references to Henry Scobell that I have been able to find. 

 The letter, I may add, was found by me in a bundle 

 containing old Bridge accounts, Mayor's accounts, and other 

 documents relating to the town and garrison, which might 

 well repay examination, but which no doubt are reposing in 

 undisturbed uselessness on the shelves of the Corporation's 

 safe, along with old charters and other unconsidered trifles 

 of a like kind. 



Die Lune, 28° Januarij 1649. 



The humble Petiion of the Maio*" Bayliffs and Burgesses 

 of Berwick upon Tweed was this day read. 



Ordered by the Parliami^' That the Towne of Berwick 

 upon Tweed doe from henceforth hold and jnoye 

 [sic) their Privi ledges and customs, according to their 

 Charter formerly granted them untill this House shall 

 take further Order notwstanding any Act Ordinance 

 or Order of Parliam* to the contrary. 



Hen. Scobell, Cler 

 Parliamen 



The endings of the lines of the signature are frayed and 

 indistinct. 



