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<HEAD><HI>An An&s;wer to</HI> Mercurius Aulicus: <HI>OR,</HI> His Communicated Intelligence from <HI>The Court to the re&s;t of the Kingdome:</HI> Faithfully tra&s;ed through, to <HI>un|di&s;ceiue tho&s;e who love the truth.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATE>The forty ninth weeke, ending December. 9.</DATE></OPENER>
<P><HI>_MErcurius,</HI> To make us take him for a Courtier, &s;tiles him&s;elfe <HI>Aulicus,</HI> that is of the Court, but his Actions prooves him an <HI>Auleticus,</HI> that is, <HI>Good for nothing but to make a Pipe on,</HI> So that we have his name but by a figure, and in &s;toad of a Me&s;&s;uage (which Office he profe&s;&s;eth) by his lyes, (Piper like) he makes him&s;elfe onely a &s;pot, to deceive the Kingdome by his alluring tongue.</P>
<P>But he forgets, or is a&s;hamed to tell us why he lyes in a &s;heet and a halfe this cold weather: But if your Mi&s;tris want cloathes, give her the tother halfe too <HI>(Auleticus)</HI> the Plunderers know very well that you kill more in your &s;heet, than they doe in the Field.</P>
<P><HI>Auleticus</HI> tells us that his Maje&s;ty according to his wonted goodne&s;&s;e, did &s;et out a Proclamation <HI>Decemb.</HI> 1. That if any were found to rob or take away any hor&s;e or Cattle, or other goods what&s;oever &rindx; without Authority, or that they cannot produce any Authentick pa&s;&s;e under the &dindx; hand and Seale of
<PB N="2" REF="2">the Colonell &amp;c. they &s;hould be apprehended, and tryed by a Coun&s;ell of Warre; why <HI>Auleticus,</HI> for his Maje&s;ties wonted goodne&s;&s;e, we are very &s;ory that the bloudy Cavaliers &s;hould a|bu&s;e it, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> keepe his Maje&s;ty from us; And the very &s;ame day that this <HI>Proclamation</HI> came out, the Souldiers of your Armie were much offended, and would not be appea&s;ed untill by ano|ther <HI>Proclamation</HI> (which was granted the very &s;ame day) it was certified, that the Counties of <HI>Oxford, Berks,</HI> and <HI>Wilts,</HI> were content rather to pay weekely &s;ummes, than (as they have done hitherto) endure the robberies, and in&s;olent cruelties of their plundring.</P>
<P>He cals the two Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament</HI> &rindx; pretended Hou&s;es of <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Commons,</HI> who&s;e &s;itting is confirmed by an Act from his Maje&s;ty under the great Seale. <HI>Auleticus</HI> doe you think that we are &s;o mad to di&s;ert them to adhere to your Coun&s;ells of Prie&s;ts, Fryars, and Je&s;uits? what though you thinke the&s;e to be a <HI>jure Divino,</HI> we hold the &s;itting of the Parliament to be ac|cording to Law.</P>
<P>He tells us of differences betweene the two Hou&s;es, and that the Hou&s;e of Commons would not con&s;ent to the Hou&s;e of Lords for Treating with the <HI>French Amba&s;&s;adour;</HI> But the Piping Mercury playes a fal&s;e tune, both Hou&s;es are very ready and willing to Treat with him in a Legall and Honourable way, and accordingly have proceeded. It was your factious Lords at <HI>Ox|ford</HI> that have hitherto laboured to hinder the Treaty for Peace, that was &s;o violent to teare the fir&s;t Propo&s;itions for feare that his Maje&s;ty and the Parliament &s;hould agree. The Amba&s;&s;adour was very angry when he rouzed up <HI>Cottington</HI> out of the Em|bers of the Spani&s;h fire.</P>
<P>He tells us that Colonell <HI>Long</HI> de&s;erves to be <HI>Regi&s;ter</HI> of the <HI>Chancery,</HI> becau&s;e he hath beene a Rebell; But <HI>Auleticus</HI> you are mi&s;taken, for though you was made Regi&s;ter to the <HI>Prelates</HI> at <HI>Oxford</HI> becau&s;e you broke out of the Gaole at London; yet the rea&s;on why Colonell <HI>Long</HI> is re&s;pected, is, for that hee is a good Prote&s;tant, and an hone&s;t man.</P>
<P>He tells us a &s;tory of the gold Oare that came in the Ginney
<PB N="3" REF="2">&s;hip that was taken, and enquiry to be made after &s;ome malig|nants that were owners thereof, why let me tell you (goodman piper) this is but dull mu&s;icke at <HI>Oxford</HI> but te&s;t your &s;elfe, &s;atis|ed we &s;hall imploy it to better purpo&s;e, then <HI>Captaine Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pe</HI> imployed his tre&s;ury. But Colonel <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> had like to have called him to account, for if his mi&s;tris had not &s;hewed him a privat way to fly out at <HI>Cicitcr.</HI> Now in one thing to (giue the Piper his due) <HI>Auleticus</HI> &s;peakes trueth, That the Earle of <HI>Warickae</HI> de&s;erues to haue his Commi&s;&s;ion enlarged, becau&s;e he is &s;o good and loyall. But he tels us that the &s;eeking of Reformation hath brought us to vi&s;ible wants, and that a dearth is at hand. Iu&s;t as <HI>Dudly</HI> the great Cavalier, a comman high-way man &s;ayd of his linnen at his Inne, at Saint <HI>Albones,</HI> which he had taken to wrap his &s;tolne plate in, O &s;ayth he to his fellow theeues, <HI>If that bee wa&s;hed wee are all undone, we are all dead men,</HI> and &s;uch a terror doth Re|formation &s;trike into the hearts of the lawle&s;&s;e Caualeers.</P>
<P>He tels us a large &s;tory of &s;ome difference betweene the Earle of <HI>Denbigh,</HI> and Colonell <HI>Barker,</HI> and Colonell <HI>Purfey:</HI> But let me tell you <HI>Auleticus,</HI> you are much deceiued in your newes: For the Earle of <HI>Denbigh,</HI> and Colonell <HI>Barker</HI> are unanimou&s;|ly agreed to ioyne with Colonell <HI>Purfey.</HI> And if Prince <HI>Rubert</HI> march that way, they may chance make him leape ouer as ma|ny hedges as he did before to make an e&s;cape. Indeed we heard from <HI>Oxford,</HI> that when the Lord <HI>Lowden</HI> was called for, &s;ome &s;ayd it was illegall to u&s;e a me&s;&s;enger &s;o, as he hath bene, which had like to haue cau&s;ed a mutiny to the purpo&s;e: and therefore he was &s;ent away to <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> where he remaines clo&s;e pri&s;oner.</P>
<P>He tells us that his <HI>Excellency,</HI> and Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> &s;triue for &s;peedy pay, and puts us in minde of <HI>Newbery</HI> and <HI>Ba&s;ing-Hou&s;e. Auleticus,</HI> His <HI>Excellency,</HI> and Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> doe both &s;corne to rob the poore Countrey people for want of pay; as the Caualeers doe: or your Ladies pay in the Campe with the <HI>P</HI>&mdash;. But hone&s;tly, godlily and legally, And it is upon ac|count what the Caualeers receiued from his <HI>Excellency</HI> at <HI>New|bery:</HI> who payed them &s;o well, that they reported at <HI>Oxford,</HI> they thought th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y had fought again&s;t &rindx; divels by rea&s;on of the fury
<PB N="4" REF="3">of his <HI>Excellencies</HI> valiant Souldiers, and had the <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> men &s;tood to it at <HI>Ba&s;ing,</HI> Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> would haue payd him&s;elfe out of the hou&s;e. And he can giue an account of the Lord <HI>Salt an</HI> and others, be&s;ides the <HI>Amazonians,</HI> concerning what de&s;igne: be&s;ides what hath happened &s;ince, concerning which; Becau&s;e <HI>(Auleticus)</HI> you &s;ay we had &s;ome great ex&s;pe|ctation of Sir <HI>William Wallers</HI> future &s;ucce&s;&s;e, concerning which we can giue you an account already of forty pri&s;oners taken at <HI>Farnham</HI> fight: where you and your dead, the mo&s;t of them were kept from our knowledge: but the pretended Lord <HI>Hopton</HI> was in &s;uch a fright; that he fled for it, and his Army after him; for which he hath &s;ince receiued a checke from <HI>Oxford,</HI> nay more then this, there is betweene 7. and 800. with their Colo|nels, Captaines, En&s;ignes, and other Officers all &s;aue the Lord <HI>Craford,</HI> and &s;ome fewe, that narrowly e&s;caped, all taken at <HI>Alton</HI> by Sir <HI>william,</HI> be&s;ides 40. &s;laine there of the Be&s;t &s;ouldi|ers <HI>Hopton</HI> hath, oh <HI>Auleticus,</HI> your <HI>Organi&s;t</HI> at <HI>Oxford will play</HI> this tune very ba&s;e.</P>
<P>He tells us that the people are very backward to bee pre&s;t in <HI>E&s;&s;ex, Surrey,</HI> &amp; <HI>Kent;</HI> But this is an impudent lye, for in all places they have rai&s;ed great &s;trength to keepe the Cavaliers out of tho&s;e parts. And yet <HI>Auleticus</HI> is &s;o audacious as to &s;ay, that they doe kill and hang tho&s;e that will not goe along with them; Indeed your owne field Martiall, <HI>Hopton,</HI> &s;ent out &s;uch a War|rant which co&s;t &s;ome of the poore men their lives, which for that purpo&s;e were driven before them to <HI>Arundell</HI> hou&s;e.</P>
<P>He tells us of &s;ome di&s;agreement about the Recru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ing of his <HI>Excellencies Army; Auleticus,</HI> his <HI>Excellency</HI> intends to leave a Garri&s;on at <HI>Newport Pannell,</HI> and to &s;ecure tho&s;e parts where he is with &s;ufficient &s;trength, and you are like to heare from him before the Lord <HI>Craford</HI> in the We&s;t, or the Earle of Newca&s;tle in the North, or your bloudy Generall Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> be Recru|ted; who&s;e dead pay, and plunder have &rindx; conveyed away too much plate and Jewells beyond Sea. &rindx; A &s;trange way to Re|crute the <HI>Palatinate.</HI></P>
<P>On <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> morning the fir&s;t of all, falls a railing again&s;t
<PB N="5" REF="3">Captaine <HI>Terrell,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Greenevill,</HI> Captaine <HI>Phips,</HI> and Cap|taine <HI>Pollerd</HI> in Buckingham&s;hire, and to no purpo&s;e at all; but like the Prelates in their private Conventicle at <HI>Oxford</HI> re&s;olve upon the Bu&s;ines that it mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity be taught in all pulpits; that the Parliament and all good Prote&s;tants &rindx; mu&s;t be rayled again&s;t by reproaches, or el&s;e Popery will never be e&s;tabli&s;hed. And for the Exci&s;e you tell us of <HI>(Auleticus)</HI> you &s;ee what a ju&s;t and equall way the Parliament take for money.</P>
<P>He tells us that the <HI>Chilterne</HI> parts have rai&s;ed Forces to de|fend the Countrey from both parts: He meanes the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Prelates;</HI> For when Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> &s;ent privately into that Cun|trey, he had an an&s;wer to the purpo&s;e; and the very women, and maides being &s;en&s;ible of their wickednes in places where they come, will rather fight them&s;elves to the la&s;t drop of bloud in their body, than to expo&s;e them&s;elves to be Ravi&s;hed and &s;poi|led by the Cavaliers.</P>
<P>And <HI>(Auleticus)</HI> relates as very a peece of non-&s;ence for Newes as ever was written; That &s;ome of the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> Forces, all or mo&s;t part of them <HI>Dutch Walloones</HI> and <HI>French</HI> in <HI>Hartford&s;hire</HI> are a &s;courge to tho&s;e parts; Well <HI>Auleticus,</HI> we grant there is Forreigners in his Excellencies Army, but they are Prote&s;tants; there is no <HI>Taffes,</HI> nor <HI>Oneales,</HI> nor <HI>La Vives,</HI> nor <HI>Seignior Corges</HI> that &rindx; bring their Commi&s;&s;ion from <HI>Rome</HI> with them, with a promi&s;e to be Canonized for Saints by acting for the continuing of the&s;e warres, as one writ from beyond Sea to the Lord <HI>Digby,</HI> that if the King hearkened to a peace, all their pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> were &s;poyled.</P>
<P>He tells us that about <HI>Che&s;ham</HI> they are very weary of the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> becau&s;e they are forced to bring his Souldiers in &s;o much provi&s;ion; No <HI>Auleticus</HI> you play fal&s;e mu&s;ick, they have &s;ent the Army a Letter of thankes for pre&s;erving them from being plundered by Prince <HI>Rupert,</HI> and are very de&s;irous that his Ex|cellency would not leave them without &s;ufficient Garri&s;ons to keepe out the Cavaliers; and whereas you tell us that the trai|ned bands are ready to leave Sir <HI>William Waller;</HI> you are much
<PB N="6" REF="4">deceived, for they have given a te&s;timony to the contrary at <HI>Al|ton,</HI> where their valour de&s;erves a Trophy of perpetuall prai&s;e, and other Trained Bands are ready to relieve them, as them&s;elves to be refre&s;ht; but I doubt not but Sir <HI>Edward Deering</HI> hath told his tale at <HI>Oxford</HI> by this, and how much the Cavaliers under <HI>Hopton</HI> are out of heart.</P>
<P><HI>Auleticus</HI> makes him&s;elfe mu&s;ick with the fancy of a great Victory at <HI>Howarden</HI> Ca&s;tle in Che&s;hire, which is a place where Sir <HI>William Brereton</HI> had beene with &s;ome of his Army, but &s;ince &s;o many came out of <HI>Ireland,</HI> he left it as nothing at all advantagious unto him, and Colonell <HI>Earnley</HI> hath &s;ince po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elfe of it; yet <HI>Auleticus</HI> tells us they tooke 2 Drakes, &s;ure it was &s;ome Duckes &s;wimming in the pond, and he &s;aith the Ca|valiers tooke 100 Armes, he meanes 100 Iri&s;h women in their armes, he &s;peakes much by figures, e&s;pecially the middle to be <HI>&s;ub intelligitur.</HI> And then he tells us of more comming from <HI>Ireland,</HI> the more is the pitie, for by this meanes the Prote&s;tants there are u&s;ed with the more cruelty, the Papi&s;ts increa&s;e in &s;trength, &amp; that the Kingdom is in the more danger to be &s;urprized by the &rindx; <HI>Spaniard,</HI> and further we are in <HI>England</HI> from peace. He tels us a &s;tory of an hou&s;e that was fired at <HI>King&s;tone</HI> in <HI>Surry Auleticus,</HI> you might have held your toung there for &s;hame, for whereas there was a Parry in the&s;e parts, which were ab&s;olute Caueleeres that lay gaping for &s;ome rebells, to rai&s;e them an head, but &s;aw little hopes to find it, becau&s;e the country was rai&s;ing of forces to keepe out the Cavaleers, and &s;eeing them&s;elves in &s;ome danger, began to muteny rob and plunder, endevoured to have fired the Towne, and &s;o to fly away, but &s;ome of them are taken and in Pri&s;on: and the re&s;t I fled to <HI>Oxford.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Saturday</HI> he begins with lamentation, for Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> his lo&s;&s;e at <HI>Plimouth</HI> yet to daub up the matter he reckons up many &s;laine, among&s;t which 3. Commanders, but they were beaten off that they could not know what execution they had done, <HI>Auleti|cus</HI> you will tell a pretty tale a non, Colonell <HI>Gold</HI> you &s;ay, is &s;hot through the arme: and keepes his bed, why what a bundle of Bulles his here <HI>Auleticus,</HI> indeede you tell us you have three&s;core
<PB N="7" REF="4"><HI>Oxen</HI> and <HI>Kine,</HI> and as many <HI>&s;heepe,</HI> and they are all Buls, you tell us you tooke a Genteleman and a Colonell pri&s;oners: and caried your Pri&s;oners a way, and left them in <HI>Plimouth:</HI> that is you would haue had them to haue giuen them&s;elues up to haue beene your pri&s;oners, and they would not: but &s;tayed &s;till in <HI>Plimouth,</HI> But you tell us that <HI>Prince Maurice</HI> was not in the &s;iedge, where was he thinke you? in <HI>Limbo Patrem,</HI> or <HI>Infantum:</HI> if he be dead tell us plainely, that we may talke no more of him, and yet now I thinke of it, you are charged to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ntrary, and mu&s;t be the Court <HI>Mercury</HI> no more if you &s;ay &s;o.</P>
<P>He tels us of Mai&s;tet <HI>Pims</HI> death, as remarkable newes, and how he was impeached of Trea&s;on, and that he died of the <HI>He|rodian</HI> vi&s;itation, and that hee was a mo&s;t loath&s;ome and foule Carca&s;&s;e: <HI>Auleticus,</HI> M. <HI>Pim</HI> is dead, but his fame liues: and will in de&s;pite of thee, and all the Caualeers, and <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> of the Kingdome: he is a&s;cended too high for thee to hurt him, and for that &s;candalous a&s;pertion which thou ha&s;t layd upon him, many hundreds, who were eye witne&s;&s;es, doe te&s;tifie that he was a ve|ry cleere and un&s;potted Corpes, hauing nothing loath&s;ome upon his body, from head to foote, but as faire a Cour&s;e as the behol|ders euer &s;aw: It is onely our lo&s;&s;e, that he is dead: and yet the Lord hath left us many more <HI>Pims,</HI> many more godly <HI>Patriots,</HI> to &s;tand for God and his Cau&s;e: And whereas you tell us of the death of the Lord <HI>Brookes</HI> and Mai&s;ter <HI>Hampden,</HI> they died in their appointed time, full of the Holy Gho&s;t, with God in their mouthes, and Chri&s;t in their hearts, Freely powring our their &s;oules to God: Not like the Earle of <HI>Northampton</HI> and other Caualeers, cur&s;ing and &s;wearing, with their la&s;t breath: The&s;r indeed are fearefull things, and to be con&s;idered. And for Sire <HI>Iohn Hotham</HI> and his Sonne, and Colonell <HI>Fines,</HI> leaue them to their Tryall: they will find Law with us, though you haue nei|ther Law nor Go&s;pell, &s;aue onely your Ladies Oracles.</P>
<P>In the la&s;t place he falls a rayling agian&s;t the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and calls them the Rebells of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and would traduce the
<PB N="8" REF="5">City to have an hard opinion of the Scots; <HI>Auleticus</HI> I would advi&s;e thee to come to Bedlam, and let thy pipes be new mended lea&s;t thou grow &s;tarke mad and incurable through the extremity of thy di&s;tracted braine, the more thou rayle&s;t again&s;t the Par|liament, the more thou bewraye&s;t thine owne impudency; and the more hatefull thou art in the eyes of all Prote&s;tants; And for the comming of the Scots, you have ju&s;t piped a le&s;&s;on of the di|vells owne making; Fir&s;t to make the people you have &s;educed to pre&s;ume they would not come, and now to bring them to a de&s;|perate opinion again&s;t them to expect nothing but ruine: wher|as it is mo&s;t apparent, that you and your popi&s;h <HI>Lords, Prie&s;ts, Fryars</HI> and <HI>Ie&s;uits,</HI> and the advancement of your per&s;ons in your Ladies Favours, to the undermining of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">, and the ruine of King and People, and have been the cau&s;e of all our mi|&s;ery; But for all your malice we doubt not but that this happy Union will be confirmed and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> between us and our brethren of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">|land</HI> to perpetuall Generations.</P>
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