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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<P>Good News
FROM
SOMERSET-SHIRE:
Of the taking of Captaine <HI>Digby</HI> &s;on to the Earle of
<HI>Bri&s;tow,</HI> who had rai&s;ed a troupe of hor&s;e to come
again&s;t the Parliament.
<HI>WITH</HI>
The manner of his apprehending, and the &s;taying of his
hor&s;e by the town of <HI>Sherburne,</HI> and him&s;elf &s;taid,
to be &s;ent up to the Hou&s;e of Parliament
for his Cen&s;ure.
<HI>ALSO</HI>
An In&s;truction from both Hou&s;es of Parliament to
all Iu&s;tices of the Peace.
Joh. Brown Cler. Parl.</P>
<P><HI>Printed for</HI> Richard Thom&s;on. 1642. Augu&s;t 12.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="account of battle">
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<HEAD>GOOD
NEVVES
FROM
SOMERSET-SHIRE.
ALSO
AN INSTRUCTION
from both Hou&s;es of Parliament
to all Iu&s;tices of the Peace.</HEAD>
<P>_SO hath it plea&s;ed
the omnipotent &amp;
wi&s;e providence of
God, that hitherto
the evill-affected
di&s;turbers of this
our Sion have been
way-layed and ta|ken
in their owne
devices, yet hath
the devill &s;o far prevailed with his deare chil|dren
the Popes Brats, that they have &s;ought
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the utter ruining of three flouri&s;hing King|domes,
and have left no plot unattempted
for the di&s;&s;olution and very e&s;&s;ence of Parlia|ments,
and have wrought both beyond &s;ea and
in <HI>England,</HI> to &s;et His Maje&s;ty again&s;t this
highe&s;t Court of Iudicature, the Court of
Parliament, as may appeare by the Lord <HI>Dig|bies</HI>
and the re&s;t of the Fugitives e&s;cape, and
de&s;iring His Maie&s;ty to retire to &s;ome place
of &s;trength, where he might attend His Maie|&s;ty
with His &s;ervice, and now in defiance of
iu&s;tice made His Maie&s;ties Court a Sanctua|ry
for all his de&s;ignes and practi&s;es formerly
by him practi&s;ed, in his appearance in a war|like
manner at <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Thames,</HI> to the
afrightment of the whole towne, and prepa|ring
&s;adles and other engines of warre, which
now his brother Captain <HI>Digby</HI> thought to
have imployed: and having prepared a troup
of hor&s;e ready to have gone for <HI>Yorke,</HI> promi|&s;ing
great rewards to all that would attend him
in his iourney to <HI>York.</HI> But having rai&s;ed his
troupe ready to &s;et forward, he was taken in
<HI>Sherburne,</HI> the whole town having intelligence
of his coming that way, where him&s;elfe and
his followers are in hold, till the cen&s;ure of
the high Court of Parliament.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="account of plot">
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<HEAD>A TRUE RELATION OF THE
Plot intended again&s;t HVLL.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Cavaliers now about <HI>Hull</HI>
make their approaches near the
wals in the night, but in the day
time dare not come neare for
feare of pellets, not within two
miles of the town: they burnt two of the mills
near the town, and in attempting to burn the
re&s;t, were violently oppo&s;ed by the &s;hot of
the Canon from the town; in&s;omuch as they
returned &s;wiftly. It is not certainly knowne
how many of the Cavaliers were kild; and the
Earle of <HI>Newport</HI> was by the force of a Canon
&s;hot di&s;mounted and throwne into a ditch of
water of a great depth, where (after he had
once &s;unk) he was catcht hold on by the haire
of his head, and his life &s;aved, which cau&s;ed
the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>York</HI> to give him his ble&s;|&s;ing,
&s;aying, If he had been a Roundhead he
he had been drowned, for there was no hold
on his head, and that the long-hair'd Cavaliers
were the onely &s;aints. But after their retreat
the high wayes were much be&s;prinkled with
blood. On tue&s;day night la&s;t the plot was laid,
and per&s;ons appointed to doe the worke, for
firing of the Towne in foure &s;everall places,
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the de&s;igne for the doing it was when they did
di&s;cern a fire on <HI>Beverley</HI> Min&s;ter, it &s;hould be
an a&s;&s;urance unto them, that at the &s;ame time
two thou&s;and men &s;hould a&s;&s;ault the wals
while&s;t the &s;ouldiers were a quenching the
fire. But this plot was di&s;covered a few
houres before, the plotters being of the alli|ance
of <HI>Beck,</HI> with the Papi&s;t who &s;hould for|merly
have betrayed the towne, and is now the
onely favourite at Court. It is certainly in|formed,
that the King adhereth to the advice
of the Cavaliers, and totally de&s;erts the coun|&s;ell
of his Lords, which makes them ready
to returne to <HI>London,</HI> &s;eeing them&s;elves in a
manner not worthy to be hearkened unto, but
rather the advice of &s;uch as &s;eek and thir&s;t af|ter
nothing but blood, and the utter de&s;tructi|on
of the three Kingdomes: which if it plea&s;e
not God to prevent, we are like by their evill
&s;ugge&s;tions to undergo the mi&s;eries of <HI>Germa|ny</HI>
and other neighbouring countreyes, who
have their hands died in the &s;carlet blood of
the &s;aints, and nothing more &s;ought after then
the de&s;truction one of another. Therefore let
us remember that <HI>a kingdome divided again&s;t it
&s;elfe cannot &s;tand,</HI> and &s;eek, as farre as in us lies,
with tears and &s;upplications to the Almighty
for the prevention thereof.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="instruction to justices of the peace">
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<HEAD>Die Mercurii.</HEAD>
<P>VVHereas &s;everall Commi&s;sions of
Array have lately i&s;&s;ued out under
the Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> into the &s;everall
Counties of <HI>Leice&s;ter, Worce&s;ter,</HI> and other
Counties of this Realme, tending to the great
danger of His Maje&s;ty, and the di&s;turbance of
the peace of the Kingdome: For the prevent|ing
thereof, and of the execution and i&s;&s;uing
out &s;uch Commi&s;sions for the time to come,
It is Ordered by the Lords and commons a&s;|&s;embled
in Parliament, That the Iudges and
Iu&s;tices of A&s;size, of the &s;everall Counties of
<HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> be required in their &s;everal
Circuits, at the A&s;sizes and great Se&s;sions to
be next held for each County, within this
Realme, and the Dominion of <HI>Wales</HI> re&s;pe|ctively,
in open Court, and in their &s;everall
Charges to be delivered to the Grand-Iuries
at the &s;aid A&s;sizes, and great Se&s;sions, openly
to declare and publi&s;h, That the &s;aid Lords
&amp; Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament have,
upon mature deliberation, Re&s;olved upon the
Que&s;tion, That the &s;aid Commi&s;sions of Ar|ray
are again&s;t Law, and again&s;t the Liberty
and Property of the Subiect: And that all
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tho&s;e that are Actors in putting the &s;ame in
execution, &s;halbe e&s;teemed di&s;turbers of the
Peace of the Kingdome, and Betrayers of the
Liberty of the Subject.</P>
<P>Ordered by the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;em|bled
in Parliament, That this &s;halbe forth|with
printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ioh. Brown Cleric. Parliament.</SIGNED> </CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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