To Our Trusty and Well-beloved General monk to be by him communicated to the President and Council of State, and to the Officers of the Armies under his command.  
CHARLES R. 
 trusty and well-beloved, We greet you well.  
It cannot be believed but that We have been, are, and ever must be as solicitous as We can by all endeavours, to improve the affections of our good Subjects at home, and to procure the assistance of Our Friends and Allies abroad, for the Recovery of that Right which by the Laws of God and Man is unquestionable, and of which We have been so long dispossessed by such a Force, and with those Circumstances as We do not desire to aggravate by any sharp Expressions, but rather wish that the Memory of what is passed may be butted in the World. That We have more endeavoured to prepare and to improve the Affections of Our Subjects at home for Our Restauration, than to procure assistance from abroad, to invade either of Our Kingdoms, is manifest to the whole World. And We cannot give a better evidence that We are still of the same mind, than in that conjuncture when common reason must satisfy all Men, That We cannot be without an assistance from abroad, We choose rather to sand to You, who have it in Your own power to prevent that ruin and desolation which a War would bring upon the Nation, and to make the whole Kingdom owe the Peace, Happiness, Security and Glory it shall enjoy to your virtue: And to acknowledge that your Armies have complied with their Obligations for which they were first raised for the preservation of the Protestant Religion, the honor and dignity of the King, the Privileges of Parliament, the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject, and the Fundamental Laws of the Land; and that you have vindicated that Trust, which others most perfidiously abused and betrayed. How much We desire and resolve to contribute to those good ends, will appear to you by Our enclosed Declaration, which We desire you to cause to be published for the information and satisfaction of all good Subjects, who do not desire a further effusion of precious Christian blood, but to have their Peace and Security founded upon that which can onely support it, a unity of affections amongst ourselves, an equal administration of justice to all men, restoring Parliaments to a full capacity of providing for all that is amiss, and the Laws of the Land to their due vindication: You have been yourselves witnesses of so many revolutions, and have had so much experience how far any power and authority that is onely assumed by Passion and appetite, and not supported by justice, is from providing for the Peace and Happiness of a people, or from receiving any obedience from them, without which no Government can provide for them; that you may very reasonably believe, That God hath not been well pleased with the attempts that have been made, since he hath usually increased the confusion, by giving all the success that hath been desired, and brought that to pass without effect, which the designers have proposed as the best means to settle and compose the Nation, and therefore We cannot but hope and believe that you will concur with us in the remedy We have applied, which to human understanding is onely proper for the Ills We groan under; and that you may make yourselves the blessed instruments to bring the blessing of Peace and Reconciliation upon King and People, it being the usual method in which the Divine Providence delighteth itself, to use and sanctify those very means which ill men design for the satisfaction of private and particular ends and ambition, and other wicked purposes, to wholesome and public ends, and to establish that good which is most contrary to the Designers, which is the greatest manifestation of Gods peculiar kindness to a Nation that can be given in this world. How far We resolve to preserve your Interests, and to reward your Services We refer to Our Declaration; and We hope God will inspire you to perform your duty to us and to your native Country, whose happiness cannot be separated from each other. We have entrusted our well-beloved Servant Sir John Greenvil Gentleman of Our Bed-chamber, to deliver this unto you, and to give us an account of your reception of it, and to desire you in Our Name, That it may be published. And so We bid you farewell.  
Given at Our Court at Breda this 4/ 14 of April 1660, in the 12. year of Our Reign.   

Dublin Printed by William Bladen, by special Order, Anno Dom 1660.