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<HEAD><HI>Numb.</HI> 31. Mercurius Publicus, COMPRISING The Sum of Forraign Intelligence: WITH The Affairs now in Agitation in <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI> For Information of the People. Publi&s;hed by Order. <DATE>From <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> July <HI>26.</HI> to <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> Augu&s;t <HI>2. 1660.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
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<HEAD>Whitehal.</HEAD>
<P>AMong a thou&s;and other Ob&s;ervations which His MAJESTIES Travels and Afflictions have taught Him, one is, the Intere&s;t of this I&s;land as to <HI>Fi&s;hing,</HI> which His MAJESTY comprehends &s;o perfectly, that as He needs no Council to advi&s;e, &s;o no Neighbour <HI>States</HI> or <HI>Nation</HI> but will finde it; and this is one of tho&s;e infinite Ble&s;&s;ings we enjoy in &s;uch a Prince (as unle&s;s we be &s;tark &s;taring mad) will render us the mo&s;t happy people under Heaven: For which purpo&s;e hath His MAJES<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">Y now &s;ent a Letter to the Lord Mayor of <HI>London,</HI> a true Copie whereof we here give you</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>CHARLS R.
Right Tru&s;ty and Well beloved, We Greet you well,</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas Our Royal Father of Ble&s;&s;ed Memory, did in the Year one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred thirty and two, Con&s;titute and E&s;tabli&s;h a Society of Fi&s;hers, and Declared, That He was re&s;olved by all good occa&s;ions favourably to a&s;si&s;t, and graciou&s;ly accept the forwardne&s;s of all tho&s;e that &s;hould ex|pre&s;s their zeal to His Maje&s;ties Service in &s;o general and pub|lique an Undertaking; It being then Re&s;olved and Concluded by His Maje&s;ty, that it was very honourable and nece&s;&s;ary for this Kingdom. Now that the true managing and mo&s;t advanta|gious pro&s;ecution thereof, is by experience di&s;covered by <HI>Philip</HI> late Earl of <HI>Pembroke</HI> and <HI>Montgomery</HI> and his A&s;&s;ociates, who did cau&s;e &s;andry Fi&s;hing Ve&s;&s;els to be provided and built, which employed many Families in making of Nets and other pro|vi&s;ions (o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e Ve&s;&s;el employing twenty Families in Work) be&s;ides the breeding of Country youths to be made &s;erviceable Mariners in &s;hort time, as by the Book called <HI>The Royal Herring Bu&s;s Fi&s;hings,</HI> pre&s;ented unto Us doth plainly appear. And where|as We are informed that the Nation doth abound with great numbers of poor Families and Vagrants, who for wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t of em|ployment are like to peri&s;h, unle&s;s &s;ome &s;peedy care be taken for their relief; And that the &s;everal Wards and Suburbs of this Our City of <HI>London</HI> and Hamlets adjacent, are burthen|ed with multitudes of poor peopl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, not only which are born in the &s;aid places, but &s;uch as come out of &s;und<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y Countries to &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ek Relief: For Redre&s;s whereof, We do hereby recommend unto the care of you Our Lord Major of the &s;aid City, to advi&s;e with each Alderm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n, and cau&s;e his Ward-moot Inque&s;t, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o give in a particular of all the poor Inhabitants within his Ward what their employment is, and how many are without employment, and pre&s;ent the &s;ame to the re&s;t of the Inhabitants to his Ward, with a Copie thereof, and excite them to a free &s;ub&s;cription for Rui|&s;ing
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a Stock to buy Hemp and Cl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ards, to make H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rring Fi&s;h|ing Nets, and Barrel, for the furni&s;hing and fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ting <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Bu&s;&s;e or Fi&s;hing Ve&s;&s;el to belong to the &s;aid Ward, which will give all the Poor and Vagrants employment, the &s;aid Ward husbanding the &s;ame to their be&s;t advantage. The which We &s;hall in like manner recommended all the Counties, Cities, and Towns within our Dominions, whereby to make it a National employment for the general gro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, and will give all fitting a&s;|&s;i&s;tance unto the Undertakers for their encouragement <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> That &s;o when Provi&s;ions &s;hall be made ready, and Store-hou&s;es built in commodious places about the River of <HI>Thames</HI> (where brea|ches have been made) and the like in the &s;everal Ports, Maga|zines may be &s;itted with Nets, Cask, Salt, and all things in readine&s;s, The Bu&s;&s;es may all go forth to Our I&s;land of <HI>Sheet|land</HI> as their Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">dezvous to keep together in their Fi&s;hing, ac|cor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> ing to certain Orders pre&s;cribed in the afore&s;aid Book; and to take that Priviledge of the Fi&s;hing Grounds, which belongs to Us before all Nations what&s;oever. And &s;o we bid you heartily Farewel.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at our Court at</HI> Whitehall <DATE><HI>this 23. day of</HI> July,</DATE> <HI>in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By his Maje&s;ties Command. <HI>Ed. Nicholas.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>To Our Right Tru&s;ty and Well-beloved, the Lord Mayor of Our City of <HI>London,</HI> to be communicated to the Court of Aldermen.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>We have already given you an account how highly the Nation of <HI>Scotland</HI> is &s;atisfied; We &s;hall now pre&s;ent you with the &s;tate of Affairs in <HI>Ireland,</HI> wherein it will be very con&s;iderable to look into the affections of the Army, which
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we &s;hal offer you in their own words, as they were pre&s;ented in an Addre&s;s to his Maje&s;ty, by the Right Honourable the Lord <HI>Broghil,</HI> viz.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. The humble Addre&s;s of the Officers of your Maje&s;ties Army in and near <HI>Dublin</HI> in <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOthing can in degrees &s;o fully proportion our &s;orrow for the murther of your Royal Father, as our joy for your Re&s;tauration; 'Tis your Maje&s;ties Glory, and our &s;atisfaction, that God hath effected it without blood; the world &s;ees 'tis the day of his power, the people are &s;o wil|ling in it, none as men but mu&s;t &s;ay 'tis wonderful in our eyes, and none as Chri&s;tians but will &s;ay it is the Lords doings.</P>
<P>Your Maje&s;ties Gracious Declaration and Letters to the Parliament, have not onely prevented, but granted our chiefe&s;t de&s;ires, and we owe you our mo&s;t &s;incere and hum|ble acknowledgment, as much for the manner of giving as for the gift; in this we are &s;afe, in that we are happy.</P>
<P>Your Maje&s;ty de&s;ires nothing more then to act your clemency, and we de&s;ire nothing more then not to appear unworthy of it.</P>
<P>God hath pre&s;erved you abroad in your per&s;on, and which we know is dearer to you, in your Religion, &s;ignal evidences whereof we have already received, for no other Tree could produce &s;uch fruit.</P>
<P>All your &s;ubjects virtually are in Parliament, and by Parliament you do graciou&s;ly promi&s;e to be advi&s;ed, your Maje&s;ty could not grant more, nor your People ask more.</P>
<P>And to manife&s;t you will Rule by Example as well as Precept, you decline being your own Judge in your deepe&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oncernments: Your Royal Fathers Murtherers could not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> a greater favour, nor your Parliament a greater tru&s;t;
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neither could your Maje&s;ty more &s;en&s;ibly and graciou&s;ly let the body of your people know, you e&s;teemed them in|nocent of that &s;in then by leaving it to them to puni&s;h.</P>
<P>You do not onely ob&s;erve your Laws your &s;elf, but you freely pardon all your &s;ubjects that have broken them; To be ju&s;t is what all Kings ought to be, but to be merciful is what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> King is; the be&s;t of our former Princes appeared worthy of the Crown, but after they wore it, your Maje&s;ty has done &s;o before, the providence of God having taught you to raign over your &s;elf, before you raigned over your Kingdoms, out of which you were put by violence, but you are re&s;tored by con&s;ent, by which through mercy we now live to &s;ee more then hopes of that which we have &s;o long thir&s;ted after, an happy and full agreement between King and people, towards the ataining whereof, we can truly &s;ay, neither our prayers, nor our indeavours in our re&s;pective &s;tations have been wanting, nor through the goodne&s;s of God &s;hall they cea&s;e, till what is &s;o happily begun be com|pleated.</P>
<P>Your Maje&s;ty &s;hould have earlier received this Tribute of our Loyalty and affection, but that we &s;tayed till this time to a&s;&s;ure you which now we pre&s;ume to do, that gene|rally the Officers and Souldiers in this your Army, have not onely joyfully proclaimed your Maje&s;ties Royal un|doubted right to your three Kingdoms, but with their hands have &s;ub&s;cribed the &s;ame; and we are confident, if your &s;ervice require it, would do the like with their bloods again&s;t all oppo&s;ets.</P>
<P>We have nothing can Apologize for the confidence of this duty, but that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth will &s;peak, which in all humility we hope will obtain both your Maje&s;ties belief, and your pardon for</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t humble and mo&s;t faithful Subjects and Ser<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ts.</HI> Signed by the Lord <HI>Bro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hil,</HI> Sir <HI>Charles C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ot,</HI> and all the Officers in and near <HI>Dublin</HI>&punc;</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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Thus you &s;ee how the Souldiery are inclin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d to His Maje&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;ervice. Nor is there any doubt to be made of the general con&s;ent of the whole Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> who have expre&s;&s;ed &s;o much loy<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">lty to His M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">je&s;ty, and towards whom His Maje&s;ty hath &s;hown &s;o much c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e and tend <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n declaring the Right hon^b^l^e^. L. <HI>Roberts</HI> to be His Deputy the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">; wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ch the Commi&s;&s;ioners of that Nation look upon not only as the highe&s;t point of p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">udence in His Maje&s;ty, but as an e&s;pecial Act of Grace and Favour to that Kingdom, he being a per&s;on &s;o fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ly qualified both for his Wi&s;dom and Integrity for the management of &s;o grand an Affair.</P>
<P>On Thur&s;day the 26. in&s;tant, the poor and &s;mall Inland Corporation of <HI>Eye</HI> in the County of <HI>Suffolk,</HI> did by the hands of <HI>Thomas Dey</HI> and <HI>Franc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cheney</HI> G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nt. M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">m|bers of that &s;aid Corporation (who with Sir <HI>George Revo</HI> Knight, and <HI>Charls corn|wallis</HI> E&s;quires, Members of Parliament for that plac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, were conducted to His Maj<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ty by Sir <HI>Frederick Cornwallis</HI> Knight and Baronet, Trea&s;urer of His Maje&s;ties hou&s;hold) pre&s;ent His Maje&s;ty with one hundred pounds in Gold. Though this &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">em in it &s;elf but &s;mal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, yet if we look upon the place, we may ju&s;tly judge their Loyalty to be great, and if we con&s;ider the &s;um, with the abilities of the Inhabitants, littl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, if at all inferi|our to the large&s;t Pre&s;ents. His Maje&s;ty was graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to accept it, gave them thanks, and a&s;&s;ured them of his favour to their Corporation.</P>
<P>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> day the Lord <HI>Edward Montague,</HI> who commanded the Fleet when they received His Maje&s;ty and His two Royal Brothers, being for this and other eminent &s;ervices created by His Maje&s;ty Earl of <HI>Sandwich,</HI> Vi&s;count <HI>Hinchinbrook,</HI> and Lord B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ron of St. <HI>Needs,</HI> took his place in the Hou&s;e of Peers.</P>
<P>To the&s;e we &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">l add &s;ome other Ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">les of Honour and Offices which His Maje&s;ty hath likewi&s;e conferred on this honourable Per&s;on; and then we mu&s;t tell y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">u, that be|&s;ides his Command at Sea under his Highne&s;s he Duke or <HI>York,</HI> L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rd High Admi|ral, that he is K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ight of the mo&s;t Noble Order of the Gar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er, M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ter of His Maje|&s;ties great W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rdrobe, one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of His Maje&s;ties Trea&s;ury, and one of His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t honourable Privie Council.</P>
<P>Here give us leave to acquaint you That his Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to confer the ho|nour of Knighthood on <HI>William Tredenham</HI> a M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">mber of Parliament, for St. <HI>Mawes</HI> in <HI>Cornwel,</HI> as likewi&s;e to grant the favour of his hand to Major <HI>Iohn Blackmore,</HI> who was introduced to his Maje&s;ty by his Excellency.</P>
<P>On Fryday his Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to go to the Hou&s;e of Peers, and to make a gracious Speech for the &s;peedy pa&s;&s;ing of the Bill of Indempnity and Oblivion, wherein his Maje&s;ty acquainted them how at his fir&s;t coming to them, he did both by Him&s;elf, and the Chancellor, recommend to them and the Hou&s;e of Commons, the &s;peedy di&s;|patch of that Act, how &s;ince by a particular Me&s;&s;age he p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ed the Hou&s;e of Commons to ha&s;ten that work, and did by Proclamation publi&s;h to the whole Kingdom, with what impatience he expected that Act &s;hould be pre&s;ented to him for his A&s;&s;ent, as the mo&s;t rea&s;onable and &s;olid foundation of Peace and &s;ecurity; how he thought the Hou&s;e of Commons too long about it, and therefore would not have them guilty of the &s;ame dela<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, thanking God that he had the &s;ame Inten<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ons and Re&s;olutions which he had at <HI>Breda</HI> and then reading what he then &s;aid, viz.</P>
<P><HI>And to the end that the F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ar of puni&s;hment may not engage any, Con&s;cious to them|&s;elves of what is pa&s;&s;ed to a per&s;everance in Guilt for the future, by oppo&s;ing the Quiet and Happine&s;s of their Country in the Restauration both of King Peers and People, to their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t Ancient and Fundamental Rights: We do by the&s;e Pre&s;ents Declare, That We do grant a Free and General Pardon, which We are ready upon de|mand to p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s under Our Great Seal of</HI> England, <HI>to all Our Subjects, of w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">at degree
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or quality &s;oever, who, within forty days after the publi&s;hing hereof, &s;hall lay hold upon th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> Our Grace and Favour, and &s;hall by any Publique Act declare their doing &s;o; And that they return to the Loyalty and Obedience of good Subjects. (exc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">pting only &s;uch p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;ons as &s;hall hereafter be excepted by Parliament.) Tho&s;e onely ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">pted, let all Our loving Subjects, how faulty &s;oever rely upon the Word of a King, So|lemnly given by this pre&s;ent Declaration That no Crime what&s;oever committed again&s;t Us or Our Royal Father, before the Publication of this, &s;hall ever ri&s;e in judgement, or be brought in Que&s;tion again&s;t any of them, to the l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t endammagement of them, either in their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ives: Liberties or E&s;tates, or (as far forth as lies in Our Power) &s;o much as to the Prejudice of their Reputations, by any Repr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ach or term of Di&s;tin|ction from the re&s;t of Our be&s;t Subjects. We d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;iring and Ordaining, that hencefor|ward all Notes of Di&s;cord, S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">paration and Difference of Parties be utterly Aboli&s;hed among all Our Subj<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">cts, whom We invite and Conjure to a perfect Union among them|&s;elves under Our Prot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ction, for the Re&s;ettlement <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">f Our Ju&s;t Rights, and theirs, in a Free Parliament; By which upon the Word of a King, We will be advi&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty then added, That if they did not then joyn with him in extingui&s;hing the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ear which keeps the hearts of men awake and apprehen&s;ive of &s;afety and &s;ecurity, they would keep him from performing his Promi&s;e. His Maje&s;ty thank'd them for their ju&s;tice to tho&s;e that had been the imm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">diate Murtherers of his Father, and a&s;&s;ured them he never thought excepting any other. Many other Arguments his Maje&s;ty was gra|ciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to make u&s;e of, de&s;iring and co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">juring them again and again, that lay|ing al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> particular Animo&s;ities a&s;ide, they would pa&s;s that Act without any other ex|ceptions, then of tho&s;e who were immediately guilty of the Murther of his Father.</P>
<P>On Saturday the 28. The truly Honourable, and perfect Pattern of Loyalty, Marquis of <HI>Ormond,</HI> being created and &s;ummoned by Writ from his Maje&s;ty, as Earl of <HI>Brecknock,</HI> took his place in the H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;e of Peers.</P>
<P>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ving i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> our former &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">et acquainted you with the times and places of the Cir|cuits we &s;hall now give you the names of the Judges.</P>
<P>Judges for the We&s;t Circuit, are Ju&s;tice <HI>Foster</HI> and Ju&s;tice <HI>Tyrrill,</HI> of the Common Pleas.</P>
<P>The home Circuit, Lord Chief Baron and Serjean <HI>Waller.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Oxford</HI> Circuit, are Ju&s;tice <HI>Mallet</HI> of the Kings Bench, and Baron <HI>Turner.</HI></P>
<P>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">h Circuit, are Ju&s;tice <HI>Twi&s;den</HI> of the Kings Bench, and Serjeant <HI>Barnard.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Northampton</HI> Circuit, are Baron <HI>Atkins</HI> and Serjeant <HI>Earle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Norfolk</HI> Circui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, are Ju&s;tice <HI>Hyde</HI> of the Common Pleas, and Serjeant <HI>Archer.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;ame day his Sacred Maje&s;ty went to the Hou&s;e of Peers, and gave his Royal A&s;&s;ent to the&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Acts following <HI>viz. An Act for Continuing the Exci&s;e. An Act for Tonnage and Poundage; An Act for Commi&s;sioners of Sewers.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>El&s;eneur <DATE>July <HI>14.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<P>We are &s;till very bu&s;ie here (almo&s;t day and night) to tran&s;port the Swedi&s;h Forces over into <HI>Schonen,</HI> and the en|deavours of the Hollands Admiral <HI>de Ruyter,</HI> is much to be
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commended, for a&s;&s;i&s;ting and helping the tran&s;portation, which if it had not been for his Fleet, might po&s;&s;ibly have been retarded yet a good while. La&s;t Saturday &s;everal Ve&s;&s;els with Foot &s;ouldiers arrived here from <HI>Copenhagen,</HI> which are to be the Garri&s;on of <HI>Cronenburg</HI> Ca&s;tle, but they are not yet landed, till the Ca&s;tle be delivered up by the Swedes, which is conceived will be done within a few days. Letters from <HI>Copenhagen</HI> intimate, that the Engli&s;h Amba&s;|&s;adours will be here on Monday next, to take &s;hipping for <HI>England.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Hamburgh, <DATE>Iuly <HI>24.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<P>The Armies hereabouts lye &s;till in their Quarters, and the report is, that they will &s;uddenly break up, but as yet there but &s;mall appearance of it. Count <HI>Koning&s;marck</HI> hath di&s;|banded &s;everal Officers in the Dukedom of <HI>Bremen,</HI> and re|duceth the Regiments. <HI>Cronenburg</HI> is not yet delivered to the Danes. The Hollands Admiral <HI>de Ruyter</HI> is bu&s;ie in tran&s;porting the Swedi&s;h Forces over into <HI>Fuhnen.</HI> The Dantzick Po&s;t was robbed &s;ix leagues off this place, which cau&s;eth that no Letters are come this day.</P>
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<HEAD>Hague, <DATE>Iuly <HI>31.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<P>The bu&s;ine&s;s at <HI>Utrecht</HI> is not yet appea&s;ed, &s;o as it was thought, but is grown higher then formerly, in&s;omuch as there hath been this week three companies more command|ed thither to re-inforce the former thither &s;ent; and it is to be fear'd much trouble may en&s;ue upon this difference m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">de between the Mini&s;ters and the Magi&s;trates there, the former whereof having begun the trouble, 'tis thought may &s;e|verely &s;mart for it. Mijn Heer <HI>Mycope</HI> who hath been long detained a Pri&s;oner concerning Accompts belonging to the States, hath now his &s;entence for to pay 15000 gild. fine, de|fray all charges of Impri&s;onment, and to an&s;wer at the Law all Suits that &s;hall be brought again&s;t him by any per&s;on he hath wronged, M. <HI>Bo&s;huy&s;en</HI> and two more guilty of the &s;ame fact, have all their goods and e&s;tates confi&s;cated, and their per&s;ons for ever bani&s;hed.</P>
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<HEAD>Adverti&s;ement of a Book newly Printed and Publi&s;hed.</HEAD>
<P>&rindx; Divine Efficacy without Humane Power. Opened in a Sermon Preached at St. <HI>Margarets</HI> Church in <HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> before the Right Honorable the Hou&s;e of Commons, <HI>June</HI> 2. 1660. Being the day of &s;olemn Thank giving for the Happy Return of the Kings Maje&s;ty. By <HI>Edward Rey|nolds</HI> D. D. and Chaplai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> ordinary to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. Sold by <HI>George Thoma&s;on</HI> at the Ro&s;e and Crown in St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard.</P>
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<HEAD>Adverti&s;ements.</HEAD>
<P>ALL Deputy Po&s;tma&s;ters and Officers, that hold them&s;elves concerned in the Settlement of the Po&s;ts, in the &s;everal Stages of <HI>Plymouth</HI> road and <HI>Bri&s;tol</HI> road, are de&s;ired to take notice, that an Agent is appointed by the Ma&s;ter of his Maje&s;ties Po&s;t-Office who begins his journey towards <HI>Plymouth</HI> upon Thur&s;day the Second of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> to &s;ettle all the Po&s;ts in the &s;e|veral Stages upon that road, who returns by <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;tol,</HI> to &s;ettle all the Posts al&s;o upon that roade.</P>
<P><HI>GEntlemen,</HI> You are de&s;ired to take notice, That Mr. <HI>Theophilus Buckworth</HI> who for &s;ome years pa&s;t permitted, and gave directions to his Brother Mr. <HI>Edmond Buckworth,</HI> to make and expo&s;e to &s;ale for the publick good, tho&s;e &s;o famous <HI>Lozanges</HI> or <HI>Pectorals</HI> approved for the cure of Con&s;umptions, Coughs, Catarchs, A&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">'s, Hoar&s;ne&s;s, Strongne&s;s of Boc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">th, Coins in general, D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ea&s;es incident to the Lungs, and a &s;overaign An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e again&s;t the Plague, and all other contagious Di&s;ea&s;es, and ob&s;tructions of the Stomach. doth now him&s;elf (bei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">g the Author and fir&s;t compounder of them) make them at his Hou&s;e on Mile-end Green. And for more conveniency of the peo|ple, con&s;tantly leaveth them &s;ealed up with his Coat of Arms on the Papers with Mr. <HI>Richard <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">owndes</HI> (as formerly) at the &s;ign of the White Lion <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Little North door of <HI>Pauls</HI> Church, Mr. <HI>Henry</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e over again&s;t <HI>Dun&s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> Church in Fleet&s;treet, M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>William Milward</HI> at <HI>We<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">minste<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>&punc; H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll Gat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, Mr. <HI>John Pla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> at <HI>Furni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">als</HI>-Inn Gate in Holborn, and Mr. <HI>Robert Horn</HI> at the Turks head near the entrance of the Royal Exc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ange Book&s;ellers, and no o|thers.</P>
<P><HI>This is publi&s;hed to prevent the d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;igns of divers pretenders who counterfeit the &s;aid <HI>Lozenges</HI> to the di&s;paragement of the &s;aid Gentleman, and great abu&s;e the people.</HI></P>
<P>ON Wedne&s;day the 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>July</HI> was &s;tolen out of <HI>Peekham</HI> f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ld, thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> Miles off <HI>London,</HI> a Sorr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">teen hand &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> high, having two Wall eyes, Bald fac'd, four white feet, much white about him, having <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ides ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">len with a Pack-&s;addle, being a Bakers hor&s;e. If any per&s;on can bring tidings to Mr <HI>Bellamy</HI> at the Plying hor&s;e in <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hames-&s;treet,</HI> near the Bride Foot, they &s;hall be well rewarded for their pai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">.</P>
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<P>His Sacred Maje&s;ty gave his Royal a&s;&s;ent to the&s;e Acts following: <HI>The Act for Tonnage and Poundage; The Act for continuing the Exci&s;e till the</HI> 20. <HI>of</HI> Augu&s;t 1660. <HI>An Act for the pre&s;ent nominating of the Commi&s;sioners of Sewers</HI>; and <HI>An Act for the re&s;toring</HI> James <HI>Marque&s;s of</HI> Ormond <HI>all his Honors, Mannors, Lands and Tenements in</HI> Ireland, <HI>whereof he was in po&s;se&s;sion on the</HI> 23. <HI>day of</HI> October 1641. <HI>or at any time &s;ince.</HI></P>
<P>Of the&s;e we &s;hall give you &s;ome account, referring tho&s;e that are de&s;irous of farther &s;atisfaction, to the Acts printed at large by his Maje&s;ties Printers. In the fir&s;t there is grant|ed to his Maje&s;ty, of every Ton of French wine brought in|to the Port of <HI>London</HI> by his Maje&s;ties natural born &s;ubjects by way of merchandi&s;e, 4 <HI>l.</HI> 10 <HI>s.</HI> and by &s;trangers 6 <HI>l.</HI> If brought to any other Port, by natural born &s;ubjects 3 <HI>l.</HI> by &s;trangers 4 <HI>l.</HI> 10 <HI>s.</HI> Of every But or Pipe of wines of the growth of <HI>Levant, Spain</HI> or <HI>Portugal,</HI> brought into the Port of <HI>London</HI> by his Maje&s;ties natural born &s;ubjects, 2 <HI>l.</HI> 5 <HI>s.</HI> by &s;trangers 3 <HI>l.</HI> if brought into any other Port, by a natural born &s;ubject 1 <HI>l.</HI> 10 <HI>s.</HI> by &s;trangers 2 <HI>l.</HI> 5 <HI>s.</HI> Of every Acom of wine of the growth of <HI>Germany,</HI> brought into his Maje&s;ties Realm and Dominions by natural born &s;ubjects 20 <HI>s.</HI> by &s;trangers 25 <HI>s.</HI> There is al&s;o granted another Sub&s;idy of Poundage, <HI>viz.</HI> of all goods exported or imported by way of merchandi&s;e by any natural born &s;ubject Denizen and Alien, of every 20 <HI>s.</HI> valued according to the Book of Rates <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">2 <HI>d.</HI> and of every 20 <HI>s.</HI> value of any native commodity or manufacture wrought of native commodity, carried out by any Merchant alien, 12 <HI>d.</HI> over above the 12 <HI>d.</HI> afore&s;aid, excepting Old Draperies, Wines limited to pay Tonage, &amp;c. in the Books of Rates Cu&s;tom-free.</P>
<P>There is likewi&s;e granted a further Sub&s;idy to continue from the 24. of <HI>June</HI> inclu&s;ively during his Maje&s;ties life, for every &s;hort Woolen cloth not above 28 yards long, and 64 <HI>l.</HI> weight, exported by any natural born &s;ubject, of 3 <HI>s.</HI> 4 <HI>d.</HI> and of every Cloth of greater length and weight proportionably, and of every &s;hort Cloth of le&s;&s;er length
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and weight, accounting &s;o much to a &s;hort Cloth according to the Book of Rates 3 <HI>s.</HI> 4 <HI>d.</HI> if exported by &s;trangers, 6 <HI>s.</HI> 8 <HI>d.</HI></P>
<P>It is further enacted, That if any goods be put in a ve&s;&s;el to be exported, or un&s;hipp'd to be laid on land, Duties being unpaid, and no agreement for them in the Cu&s;tom-hou&s;e, the goods &s;hall be forfeited one moye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ie to his Maje&s;ty, the other to him that &s;ei&s;eth or &s;ueth for them.</P>
<P>It is further enacted, That if the goods of any Merchant born Denizen after the &s;aid 24. of <HI>June,</HI> &s;hall be taken by Pyrates or peri&s;hed at &s;ea, during his Maje&s;ties life, the duties and Sub&s;idies being formerly paid, and due proof be made thereof, the &s;ame Merchant, his executors or admini&s;trators may &s;hip &s;o much goods as were lo&s;t, without paying any thing for the &s;ame. And that every Merchant Denizen that &s;hall &s;hip any goods in a Carrack or Gally, &s;hall pay as an Alien.</P>
<P>Provided notwith&s;tanding, that all Herrings and Sea-fi&s;h taken on the &s;ea by his Maje&s;ties &s;ubjects, may be tran&s;ported out of this Realm in ve&s;&s;els of his, Maje&s;ties &s;ubjects, with|out payment of Cu&s;tom, Sub&s;idy or Poundage, during his Maje&s;ties life.</P>
<P>It is further enacted, that the Rates intended in this Act are tho&s;e mentioned in a booke entituled, <HI>The Rates of Merchan|di&s;e,</HI> &s;ub&s;cribed with the hand of Sir <HI>Harbottle Grim&s;ton</HI> Baro|net, which booke is to remaine during His Maje&s;ties life.</P>
<P>It is further enacted, that where the goods amount to the value of 5 <HI>l.</HI> or more, no other fees &s;hall be received than &s;uch as were taken in the fourth year of the late King <HI>James,</HI> without further Authority of Parliament.</P>
<P>Provided that no per&s;on who betwixt the 24 of June and the 24 of July 1660. hath received or paid any duties or Cu&s;tomes according to the Rates u&s;ed in <HI>April</HI> 1660. &s;hall be mole&s;ted for &s;uch receipt or payment.</P>
<P>And it is declared that no per&s;on who hath &s;hipped any goods in the &s;ame time, &s;hall be lyable to the payment of any other duties than &s;uch as were u&s;ed in April 1660.</P>
<P><PB N="508" REF="412">It is likewi&s;e enacted, that it may be lawfull to tran&s;port I|&s;hn, Armor, Bandileers, Bridle-Bits, Halbert-Heads and harpes, Muskets, Carbines, Fowling-pieces, Pi&s;tols, Pike|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eads, Sword or Rapier Blades, Saddles, Snaffles, Stirrops, Calveskins dre&s;&s;ed or undre&s;&s;ed, Geldings, Oxen, Sheep|skins dre&s;&s;ed without the Wool, and all Manufactures made of Leather, as al&s;o Gunpowder, when the price doth not ex|ceed 5 <HI>l.</HI> the Barrel, Wheat when at 40 <HI>s.</HI> the quarter, Rye, Beans and Pea&s;e at 24 <HI>s.</HI> the quarter, Barley and Mault at 20 <HI>s.</HI> the quarter, Oates at 10 <HI>s.</HI> the Quarter, Beefe at 5 <HI>l.</HI> a B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rrel, Porke at 6 <HI>l.</HI> 10 <HI>s.</HI> a Barrel, Bacon at 6 <HI>d.</HI> a pound, Butter at 4 <HI>l.</HI> 10 <HI>s.</HI> the Barrel, Chee&s;e at 1 <HI>l.</HI> 10 <HI>s.</HI> the hun|dred, Candles at 5 <HI>s.</HI> a dozen pound at the Ports when they are laden, any law to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>Provided that it be free for his Maje&s;ty notwith&s;tanding this Act, to prohibit at any time the tran&s;porting of Gun|powder, or any Armes or Ammunition.</P>
<P>It is further enacted, that be&s;ides the former Rates there &s;hall be paid to his Maje&s;ty, out of every Tun of Wine of the growth of <HI>France, Germany, Portugal,</HI> or <HI>Mardera,</HI> 3 <HI>l.</HI> of other Wine 4 <HI>l,</HI> within 9 moneths after the importing for which &s;ecurity &s;hall be given; but if the &s;ame Wines &s;hall be exported within 12 moneths, the &s;ecurity he &s;hall be di&s;|charg'd or if he hath paid money he &s;hall be allowed at 10 per Cent for a year.</P>
<P>It is farther enacted, that after the 24 of July all Wines &s;hall be di&s;charged from the Impo&s;ition of Exci&s;e.</P>
<P>It is further provided that the prize Wines ought not to pay or be charged with any Cu&s;tome, Sub&s;idy &amp;c.</P>
<P>In the <HI>Act for continuing the Exci&s;e,</HI> the Impo&s;ition of Ex|ci&s;e is continued to be collected &amp; paid, as al&s;o arrears unpar|doned to the Commi&s;&s;ioners that now Collect the &s;ame from the 24 of June inclu&s;ively 1660. to the 24 of Augu&s;t the &s;ame year; provided all &s;orts of Oyles, Wines, &amp;c. imported after the 24 of July 1661 be di&s;charged from that duty.</P>
<P>In the <HI>Act for Commi&s;sioners of Sewers,</HI> It is enacted, that Commi&s;&s;ions of Sewers &s;hall and may be directed at any time
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before the 23 of October next en&s;uing, not after, according to the manner and forme expre&s;&s;ed in the Statute of the 23 of King Henry the 8, as the Lord Chancellor Lord Com|Commi&s;&s;ioner of the Trea&s;ury, the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lanca&s;ter, Lord Cheif Baron of the Exchequer and the Ju&s;tices of either Bench or any 3 of them wket<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">of the Lord Chancellor. to be one &s;hall appoint and that they &s;hall have full power to execute as any Commi&s;&s;ioners of Sewers ot any time before.</P>
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<HEAD>Adverti&s;ements.</HEAD>
<P>REader, pray take notice, that in His Maje&s;ties Proclamation lately &s;et forth for dayes of holding the A&s;si&s;es in the &s;eve|ral Counties of this Kingdom, there is a great mi&s;take for the day of holding the A&s;si&s;es for the County of <HI>Cornwal,</HI> which is there &s;aid to be Wedne&s;day the Fifteenth day of September, whereas it &s;hould have been Wedne&s;day the Nineteenth day of September; of which all per&s;ons may take notice.</P>
<P>THere was lo&s;t between <HI>Bi&s;hop&s; gate&s;treet</HI> and <HI>Grayes-Inn,</HI> a black box, &s;omwhat &s;quare, wherein there were Parchments, written in Latine, Sealed. If any one can give notice thereof to Mr. <HI>Skelion</HI> a Book&s;eller in Duck-lane, at the &s;ign of the hand and bible, he &s;hall be well rewarded.</P>
<P>If any per&s;on have found a &s;mall Almanack of <HI>Gold &s;miths,</HI> bound in Blew Leather, with gilt Leaves and Cla&s;pes, lo&s;t either in <HI>Whitehal</HI> or <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> upon Saturday the twenty eighth of this Mouth; they are de&s;ired to leave it at Mr. <HI>Charles Toveys</HI> hou&s;e, an Apothecary at the &s;ign of the Hor&s;hooe near the New-Exchange, and they &s;hall be rewarded for their pains.</P>
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<HEAD>Paris <DATE>the 30 of July</DATE>
S. N.</HEAD>
<P>Saturday la&s;t the Queen mother was at Ma&s;s in the Church of Notre Dame, from whence &s;he came to the Ca&s;tle of Vicennes, and dined there with the King&punc; On Monday the Cardinal was very ill of the Gout and Gravel, but by vertue of &s;ome remedy which was given
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him, he vo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ded two &s;tones, &s;ince which he hath been pretty well. The King vi&s;its him every day with great care, and &s;o doth the Queen Mother; Prayers are made in all Churches for his recovery, which now only is expected, to appoint the day for the Queens entrance, for which preparations are &s;till made&punc; and with much indu&s;try continu|ed. To make the Shew the more &s;plendid, the Citizens are daily a&s;|&s;embled in all the parts of this Town&punc; to exerci&s;e and train them up in Arms.</P>
<P>Some days &s;ince the Abbot Fantoni, Envoy Extraordinary from Po|land, had audience with the King, whom, in his Ma&s;ters name, he gave thanks for tho&s;e good offices his Amba&s;&s;adors had done concerning the peace with Sweden and Poland, and afterwards Complemented his Maje&s;ty touching his Marriage: He had likewi&s;e audience given him by the Queen Mother, the young Queen, the Duke of Anjon, and Cardinal Mazarini, with whom, it is &s;aid&punc; he had al&s;o a conference touching the pre&s;ent War with the Mu&s;covites.</P>
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<HEAD>From the Ca&s;tle of Vicennes of the &s;ame date.</HEAD>
<P>The King and Queen are daily here, expecting the day of their en|trance at Paris, and the recovery of the C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nal, for who&s;e pre&s;ent indi&s;po&s;ition the whole Court &s;eemeth to be troubled. The young Queen having a minde to divert her &s;elf, and to &s;ee the fa&s;hion of Pa|ris, went incognito in Madamo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;elle d'Orlea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> her Coach o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Munday la&s;t, towards this City; but the noi&s;e of her coming being bruited all over the Town, the people ran to meet th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> coach with &s;uch a mul|titude, that her Maje&s;ty was forced to return back. And becau&s;e &s;he had &s;till a de&s;ire of &s;eeing Paris, &s;he went thither ye&s;terday unknown, accompanied by Mon&s;ieur the Duke of A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ion where by the way &s;he &s;aw the Queen Mother at Val de grace, their Maje&s;ties went together to the Louvre, and thence they vi&s;ited the Cardinal, and &s;o returned to Vicennes. A Courrier is lately di&s;patched hence <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">or Spai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, to car|ry the news of &s;ome evident marks taken notice of, that the Queen is with childe.</P>
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<HEAD>Whitehall.</HEAD>
<P>On Monday la&s;t his Maje&s;ty was graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to confer the honor of Knighthood on a young Swedi&s;h Nobleman, <HI>Baron Conrad Gyllen&s;tierna.</HI></P>
<P>We have no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of late made any mention of Millitary Affa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rs, which being at the pre&s;ent a matter of great importrnce as to the &s;afety of the Kingdom
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and pre&s;ervation of the quiet of the people, we &s;hall now be &s;omwhat the more large in giving you an account of the Officers of the Army lately &s;etled in command. And fir&s;t we &s;hall begin to give you a Li&s;t of tho&s;e not former|ly mentioned in the Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Mordant</HI> his Regiment, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Hartigill Broon</HI> Capt. <HI>Tho: Higgins</HI> Capt. <HI>Francis Arundel</HI> Lieut. <HI>Phil. Er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> En&s;ign. <HI>Tho Pride</HI> Capt. <HI>James Smith</HI> Lieut: <HI>Nath. Hari&s;on</HI> Capt. <HI>James Gerrard</HI> Lieut: Rich. <HI>Gwyn</HI> Capt. <GAP DESC="blank"> <HI>Rowlen&s;on</HI> Lieut: <HI>Antho: Ha&s;tings</HI> En&s;ign.</P>
<P>Next we &s;hall acquaint you with &s;ome little alteration in Col. <HI>Tho. Reads</HI> Regiment, where <HI>Peter Pike,</HI> late Capt. Li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">utenant, hath the Company that was Capt: <HI>Belohams,</HI> who is removed from that command, <HI>John Curtice</HI> Capt. Lieut. <HI>Marris Brown</HI> En&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">. to Capt. <HI>Pike</HI> in the place of <HI>Robert Read. Francis Everard</HI> Lieutenant to Capt. <HI>George Everard, William Jones</HI> En&s;ign&punc; We &s;hall now &s;how you how the Regiment of Hor&s;e that was <HI>&V;nton Crokes,</HI> is di&s;po&s;ed of <HI>viz. Dan Oneale</HI> of his Maje&s;ties Bedchamber, Colonel of the Re|giment, <HI>William Ba&s;&s;et</HI> Son of Sir <HI>Richard Ba&s;&s;et</HI> Governor of <HI>Cardiffe</HI> Ca&s;tle, Capt. Lieut. Sir <HI>John Stevens</HI> Major&punc; Lord <HI>Mandevil,</HI> elde&s;t Son of the Earl of <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> Lord Chamberlain of his Maje&s;ties hou&s;hold, Captain of the Tro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">p l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">te Capt. <HI>Whethams,</HI> Lord <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> Captain, <HI>Nicholas Armerer,</HI> Capt. one of his Maje&s;ties E&s;quires, commands the Troop late Capt. <HI>Ga&s;coignes. Bartue,</HI> Second Son of the Earl of <HI>Lind&s;ey,</HI> Captain of that which was Col. <HI>&V;pcotts</HI> Troop. That Regiment that was Col. <HI>Tho: Sheffeilds,</HI> is now com|manded by the Right Honorable Lord <HI>O&s;&s;erie,</HI> elde&s;t Son of the Marquis of <HI>Ormond,</HI> and <HI>Tho: Shieffeild</HI> is his Lieutenant Colonel.</P>
<P>Having thus far &s;hewed you the &s;ettlement of the Army, now take an account of &s;ome Garri&s;ons, where we &s;hall fir&s;t begin with</P>
<P><HI>Earl of Portland</HI> Governor of the I&s;le of <HI>Wight,</HI> and all the Garri&s;ons and Ports therein.</P>
<P><HI>Humphrey Turney</HI> Captain of <HI>Comes</HI> Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Barnaby Burleigh</HI> (brother to that valiant <HI>Burleigh</HI> that was murthered in the I&s;le of <HI>Wight</HI>) Governor of <HI>Yarmouth</HI> in the I&s;le of <HI>Wight.</HI></P>
<P><HI>William Lord Sandys</HI> Governor of <HI>Portland, Weymouth'</HI> and <HI>Sandfoot</HI> Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>With the&s;e we will take in <HI>George Rawleigh</HI> Captain-Lieutenant to the Right honorable the Earl of S. <HI>Albans</HI> in the I&s;land of <HI>Jer&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y.</HI></P>
<P>Though the&s;e per&s;ons and others entru&s;ted with Com|mands in the Army, are of greater fidelity then to be &s;u&s;pected in the lea&s;t of di&s;loyalty, yet too much care cannot be taken for the &s;afety and &s;ecurity of his Maje&s;ties Kingdoms; and
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to this purpo&s;e, &s;everal Commi&s;&s;ions are granted under the Great Seal of England, to per&s;ons of known integrity and loyalty, to admini&s;ter the oaths of Allegiance and Supre|macy to all the Officers and Soldiers, particularly to <HI>Buller,</HI> a Member of this pre&s;ent Parliament, and Major of his Highne&s;s the Duke of York's Regiment, to &s;ee that duty performed by the Officers and Soldiers of the &s;aid Re|giment; as al&s;o another Commi&s;&s;ion to <HI>Jeremiah Smith,</HI> to &s;ee the &s;ame done in Sir <HI>John Cloberies</HI> Regiment, of which he is Major.</P>
<P>Commi&s;&s;ions under the Great Seal are likewi&s;e i&s;&s;ued out to the &s;everal Mu&s;ter-ma&s;ters in Ireland, to admini&s;ter the &s;aid Oath of Supremacy and Allegiance to all the Officers and Soldiers within the Precinct of their Mu&s;ters.</P>
<P>Care is likewi&s;e taken for &s;etling the Militia in &s;uch hands as may be mo&s;t &s;erviceable to his Maje&s;ty, and &s;atisfactory to all that wi&s;h the peace of the Nation.</P>
<P>Letters from Edenbrough of the 26 July, inform us that the Engli&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners there, have &s;ent up &s;uch Soldiers as were in the Ho&s;pital at Edenbrough, to London, to be fur|ther provided for: as likewi&s;e, that they have relea&s;ed &s;ever|al Pri&s;oners, &s;ome that were driven in by a &s;torm at Kelkow|bery, and there taken, belonging to Cap. Patrick Taylor, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n the &s;hip called the St. A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n of St. Seba&s;tian, as al&s;o above 20 others that were taken by his Maje&s;ties Frig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t called the Greyhound. They give us no other account of the La<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d Warri&s;ton, than that they have yet no Intelligence of him, though a hundred pound Sterling is a&s;&s;ured to any one that &s;hall bring him.</P>
<P>For the Legal di&s;patch of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical matters, Dr. <HI>Chaw|worth</HI> was by the Dean and Chapter of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> elected Vicar-General above a Fortnight &s;ince&punc;</P>
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