Description
Cromwell (Oliver). Document signed, dated December 6, 1650, 1pp., folio, warrant addressed to Sir John Wollaston and the 'rest of the Trers [Treasurers] at Warre' ordering the payment of £200 to William Clarke for Army expenses, signed and receipted by Clarke.
This document is signed by Cromwell, as Commander in Chief of the Army, during his campaign against the Scots in 1650-51. Clarke had been Secretary to the Council of the Army 1647-49, and to General Thomas Fairfax, before Cromwell. He marched north with the army in July 1650, and there followed the famous defeat of the Scots at Dunbar in September 1650.
