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<P>THE RESOLUTION OF HIS HIGHNESSE, The Prince of Wales, CONCERNING</P>
<P>His coming into <HI>England,</HI> to a&s;si&s;t his Royall Father the KING. And his Declaration touching a Per&s;onall Treaty betwixt the <HI>Kings Maje&s;ty</HI> and both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P>LIKEWISE, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Declaration, concerning the proceedings of the Right Honourable the Lord <HI>Crav<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n,</HI> touching his coming into <HI>England</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t his Royall Soveraign.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the proceedings of the Royali&s;ts in Su&s;&s;ex, concer|ning their &s;eizing upon &s;everall Ca&s;tles for His <ABBR><HI>Maj</HI></ABBR> and the Re&s;olution of the Trained Bands thereupon. Al&s;o exceeding &s;trange newes from the Coun<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y of <HI>Kent,</HI> and <HI>Houn&s;ley-Heath.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration of the Royali&s;ts of <HI>Kent,</HI> touching their pre&s;ent proceedings again&s;t Col|lonel <HI>Rich,</HI> and his Forces.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe three Ca&s;tles yet hold out, but Col. <HI>Rich</HI> u&s;eth his utmo&s;t indeavours to reduce them, and a better account might have been given of the proceedings here, but that for want of an In|genier, the Morterp<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ece could not be u&s;ed, but now an Ingenier is come, and works a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e ra<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ed, and all preparations for battery are in a rea<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;e, we have but a few men, but tho&s;e are re&s;olute, and watch and work couragiou&s;ly; upon the Sout &s;ide of <HI>Walmor</HI> Ca&s;tle, we have rai&s;ed a battery from whence we can do good execution, and very probably the Ca&s;tle will be regained before this come to your hands, which being done, a good account will quickly be given of the other; &s;ome light skirmi&s;hes have hap|pened
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between us and the enemy, but nothing yet remarkable, th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y are 150. within the Ca&s;tle, and we but 200. in the Works, our foot in this County are not above 500. 200 of which are at <HI>Poyer,</HI> and ano|ther part at <HI>Sandwich,</HI> where they have imployment enought to keepe all quiet there, the people here are extreamly disaffected to us; more then in any other place, neither will they afford us any provi&s;ion, no not for our money, except we take it by force or vio|lence, we hear that the Prince is &s;uddenly expected at <HI>Caelice,</HI> if not already there, much debate hath been whether Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> or the Earl of <HI>Newcastle,</HI> &s;hall be Generall of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Forces, who with the Prince and all the Gallants of Court are to pa&s;&s;e from <HI>Callis</HI> to <HI>Dunkerk,</HI> and &s;o to <HI>Barwick</HI> to joyne with <HI>Langdale,</HI> it is not yet re&s;olved, whether the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> or the Lord <HI>German</HI> &s;hall be Admirall, but for Vic-Admirall, the Lord <HI>Willoughby</HI> of <HI>Par|ham</HI> is appoin<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ed. The 11. Revol<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ed Ships are Victu|alling in <HI>Holland</HI> for 6. months, and are there to be furni&s;hed with all nece&s;&s;aries, with an addition of 14. Sayle of <HI>Dutch.</HI> Al&s;o 4. Regiments of low Coun|trey Souldiers, with &s;ome <HI>Dutch</HI> are to come over in tho&s;e Revolted Ships; but to return to our own bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e, we have fini&s;hed two batteries again&s;t <HI>Walmor</HI> Ca&s;tle, and a runing trench ma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e from Sea to Sea, part of it not being Pi&s;toll &s;hot from the Ca&s;tle, ne|verthele&s;&s;e, if they continue ob&s;tinate, and will not yea<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d upon any conditions, but within 24. houres, we doub<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> not but to have it in our p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, <HI>Deale</HI> Ca&s;tle is relie<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ed with &s;upply from <HI>France,</HI> which makes them &s;o high, that it is thought they will&punc; not
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accept of quarter and if &s;upplyes be all laid, they wil prove the more trouble to reduce.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From the Leagure before Sandwich <DATE>Iuly 4. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Demon&s;tration of the free born people within the County of Su&s;&s;ex, touching their pre&s;ent procee|dings for the Kings Maje&s;ty, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WEE feare we &s;hall be imbroyled in blood in this County which now is the condition of many parts of <HI>England,</HI> for a party is ri&s;en in divers parts of this County, but e&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cially at <HI>Hor&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> and <HI>Bul<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">orou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">h</HI> they yet are mo&s;t Count<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> men, none of any great quality a&s;&s;i&s;ts th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">, &s;ome of the Trained Ban<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> take part wi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> them, and the Countrey men <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> cho&s;en <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">em leaders of the be&s;t their Company affords, and exrci&s;e continually, at <HI>Hor&s;ham</HI> they be|gan fir&s;t to ri&s;e, occa&s;ioned thus. The Mag<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">zi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e at <HI>Hor&s;ham,</HI> for the more &s;ecurity was by &s;ome thought good to be removed to <HI>Arundell,</HI> but the Town&s;|men and Countrey would not con&s;ent but by parties watch it day and night; but at the la&s;t they re<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">olved to Arme them&s;elves and as they &s;aid, fight for <HI>King Charles,</HI> upon which co~motion, 300. pre&s;ently Armed them&s;elves, and in 24. houres &s;pace, 600. were ga|thered together, and increa&s;e hourely, and upon no|tice of this Ri&s;ing at <HI>Hor&s;ham,</HI> they likewi&s;e ro&s;e
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at <HI>Pulborough,</HI> and all that part of the County ad|joyning to <HI>Hamp&s;hire,</HI> and tho&s;e about <HI>Pulborough,</HI> all tho&s;e parts are drawn up towards <HI>Chiche&s;ter,</HI> with an intent if po&s;&s;ible, to &s;eize and make good either that Citie or Arundel Ca&s;tle, parties are likewi&s;e coming unto them from Brighthelm&s;ton, Shoram, Steining, and tho&s;e parts, &s;o that now I b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lieve there will be never 800 in that part of the Countie, and if they can po&s;&s;e&s;s the Holds&punc; they intend to make good <HI>Bramley</HI> Ca&s;tle, and <HI>Beeding</HI> Bridge, and &s;o make good all on that &s;ide the water, we under&s;tand that tho&s;e at <HI>Hor&s;ham</HI> are &s;peedily to joyn with them, if not prevented, and &s;o to keepe together in a body, the better to make good them|&s;elves again&s;t opp<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ition; But we heere that Forces <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">re comming from the Parliament to &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pri&s;e them; whi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> will procure a good cource, and &s;o to take them of in th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Bud or el&s;e they, I prove very trou|ble&s;ome to &s;uppre&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> this is a very Malignant County and they will &s;oone be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;trong party, and I heare if once they &s;hould get the &s;trength of the County into their hands that the Trained Bands wovld take part with them, the Gari&s;on at <HI>Shoram</HI> and <HI>Brighthelm&s;ton,</HI> &s;w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ar to a&s;&s;i&s;t them what may be, and that they &s;hould want neither Ordinance nor nothing el&s;e that they can &s;upply them with, and they &s;ay that if a party come they will a&s;&s;i&s;t them in maintaining good of the Town, the well affected ga|ther together about <HI>Lewes,</HI> whither is gone Captain <HI>Shepheard,</HI> Captain <HI>Freeman,</HI> and others, and I believe tho&s;e Ea&s;tern parts of the County will be forward to a&s;&s;i&s;t again&s;t the Malignant party, and as &s;oone as
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any forces come, or any action hath pa&s;t between them, I will give you a full Relation, but for the pre&s;ent this is all from&punc;</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Steining <DATE>Iuly the 5. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your loving Friend, S. G.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Declaration of the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> and the proceedings of the Lord<HI>Craven,</HI> touching the <HI>KINGS MAIESTY.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honoured,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SInce my la&s;t dated the 23. of June, new &s;tile, we have received intelligence, that his Highne&s;&s;e the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> (for &s;ome rea&s;ons objected) hath changed his Re&s;olution for <HI>England,</HI> and is not re&s;ol|ved to engage with the Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">qu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e of <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> to joyn with Sir <HI>Marmaduke Lan<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">dale,</HI> again&s;t the Ar|my of <HI>England</HI> commanded by the Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> but hath declared, Th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> will not engage for a new Le|vy, (in Relation to Martiall Di&s;cipline) again&s;t his Native Countrey&punc; untill &s;uch time, that he h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">th re|ceived full intimation touching t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e pre&s;ent procee|dings betwixt his Royall Father, and the P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ament of <HI>England,</HI> concerning their ag<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ement for a p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;o|nall Treaty, And it is further reported, That upon information of the proceeding<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Si<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Marmaduke Langdale,</HI> touching his in&s;uing out of Warrants, in
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the name of his Highne&s;s the P. of <HI>Wales,</HI> his High|ne&s;&s;e hath declared, That he never (as yet) counte|nanced their D<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ign for the levying of another new War within the Bowels of <HI>England,</HI> but utterly de|&s;i&s;ted again&s;t the &s;ame, &s;aying; that the purple Chan|nel of <HI>England</HI> had been too much dyed with the blood of Loyalty, and that he de&s;ired a generall Act of Obl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">vian, that &s;o the Sword might be &s;heathed, all differences compo&s;ed, and the p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ent Commoti|ons within his Fathers bleeding Kingdoms immedi|ately &s;etled. Ye&s;terday, there was a great Rumour throughout this City, That the Lord <HI>Craven</HI> had a De&s;ign for <HI>England,</HI> to engage for the King, again&s;t the Parliament, but this Rumour were bla&s;ted in the bud <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">efore it came to ripene&s;&s;e; our maturity for it doth evidently appear that there was no &s;uch De&s;ign ever incended by his Lord&s;hip; but upon the Treaty and Articles of agreement, between the King of <HI>Spain</HI> and the States of <HI>Holland,</HI> his Lord&s;hip did de|clare at the he<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d of his Reg<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ment to the Officers and Souldiery. That if they had a de&s;ire to engage again&s;t any En<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">my what&s;oever, that were oppo&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e to the true faith of Chri&s;tianity, he would &s;acrifice his life with them; but to engage again&s;t <HI>England,</HI> he was re|&s;olved; to the contrary. As for the Revolted Ships, there is littl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> newes of them; but by the next you &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">l heare further from</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t a&s;&s;ured friend, <HI>William Vandere.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Delph in Holland <DATE>Iuly 2. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<P>This day there was a great rumour in the City of London concerning a party of hor&s;e rand<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">vouzing at Houn&s;low-heath for the King, as al&s;o another party in Kent, the particulars whereof I &s;hall wave for the pre&s;ent.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>July 5. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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