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<P>A DECLARATION OF The Princes Navie, <HI>CONCERNING</HI> The Parliament of <HI>England</HI> and the <HI>Army;</HI> and their Re|mon&s;trance and Re&s;oluti<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n delivered to prince <HI>Rupert;</HI> with the particulars of a great and bloudy fight at Sea, and prince <HI>Maurice</HI> his Letter to the prince of <HI>Wales.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o, the Queens Maje&s;ties Me&s;&s;age to the Prince at the <HI>Hague,</HI> concerning the pre&s;ent tran&s;action of Affaires, in relation to <HI>England, Scot|land,</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
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<Q LANG="germ"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">CH DIEN</Q>
<FIGDESC>printer's device, consisting of the coronet of the Prince of Wales adorned with three ostrich feathers</FIGDESC>
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<P>Imprinted at <HI>London,</HI> for <HI>G. Wharton, May</HI> 1. 1649.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>A DECLARATION Of the Princes Fleet at SEA AND Their Re&s;olution touching the Parliaments Navy with their pre&s;ent De&s;ign and Intentions touch|ing the Parliament and Army.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Honoured Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_UPon the 26. of this in&s;tant, here arrived <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Me&s;&s;enger from Prince <HI>Maurice,</HI> wi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> a Letter to the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> where <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> he gives an account to his Highne&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the pre&s;ent tran&s;actions at Sea, purpo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+ting, That without a &s;peedy &s;upply of Monies, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+ther Nece&s;&s;aries appertaining thereunto, for acco<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+modation
<PB N="2" REF="3">of the Mariners, a great di&s;traction would &s;uddenly break forth among&s;t them new Coles being already kindling, which are ready to break forth in a vi&s;ible flame.</P>
<P>For we hear, that they mutiny exceedingly, and have declared, That they will not engage again&s;t the Parlia|ments Navy without a&s;&s;urance both of pre&s;ent and fu|ture &s;atisfaction; in&s;omuch, that many of them have undantedly remon&s;trated to Prince <HI>Rupert,</HI> and other &s;uperiour Officers, that they will rather die and &s;uffer martyrdome, then be en&s;laved and ruled by a u&s;urping power and arbytrary Government.</P>
<P>This &s;trange allarum &s;oundeth in the eares of many like a terrible eccho, and puts a great demur to the proceedings at Court, many of the Grandees declining Engagement; e&s;pecially &s;ince the receipt of the In|telligence, that the parliaments Navy are put forth to Sea who are joyntly re&s;olved to hazard the encounter, and to bring them to obedience and &s;ubjection, who have perfidiou&s;ly de&s;erted, and betrayed the tru&s;t re|po&s;ed in them.</P>
<P>And by an Expre&s;&s;e from <HI>Helver-&s;luce</HI> it is further intimated, that upon the lanching forth of the parlia|ments &s;hips to the Ocean, they &s;oon e&s;pyed a Squadron of the princes Fleet, all under &s;ayl, being about &s;ixteen in number, who making towards them, and comming within &s;hot, gave them a broad &s;ide, which by rea&s;on of a &s;econd Volley from the a&s;&s;aulted, a hot conflict began, being di&s;puted with great re&s;olutene&s;&s;e and gal|lantry on both &s;ides, the Victory &s;eeming a long while doubtfull, but at la&s;t it fell to the parliamenteers, who &s;unk one of their Combitants, cha&s;ed the re&s;t many
<PB N="3" REF="3">leagues, and are now become Ma&s;ters of a great part of the Briti&s;h Seas.</P>
<P>This is reported here with great confidence, and it is verily believed, the re&s;t will not &s;tand a fight, divers of them fearing, that they &s;hall be made exemplary, if e|ver they be taken. Col. <HI>Popham</HI> one of the parliaments Admirals, hath cleered the We&s;tern Coa&s;t neere the I&s;le of <HI>Portland,</HI> and forced many to fly before him. The other two Admirals, Col. <HI>Blague,</HI> and Col. <HI>Deane,</HI> are upon the &s;ame motion on the South we&s;t point.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Hague <DATE>27. Aprill, 1649.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<HEAD>Post&s;cript,</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Since the writing of my la&s;t, the two extraordinary Emba&s;&s;adours from Sweden and Denmark have had audience with the titufar King of Scotland, repre&s;enting the per&s;onall appearance of their Ma&s;ters, and promi&s;ing him a&s;&s;i&s;tance for the ob|taining of his Birthright. But truly we cannot di&s;cerne any vi&s;ible Force as yet in Armes, and the Princes Propo&s;itions to the old Souldiers of the United Pro|vinces are much &s;lighted and rejected, having unani|mou&s;ly declared, that they will not any wayes inter|meddle with the affairs of <HI>England,</HI> in relation to the erecting and &s;etting up of Monarchy or any other Go|vernment what&s;oever. Here is a great demur hapned, at Court, by rea&s;on of the Parliaments Navy putting forth to Sea, which cau&s;eth many who at fir&s;t &s;eemed very forward to promote the Royall De&s;ign, to de&s;ert any further Engagement, taking a pre&s;ident by the late headle&s;&s;e members, who acted again&s;t the Common|wealth of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Hague <DATE>27. Aprill 1649.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Queens Letter to the Prince.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Queen of <HI>England</HI> is much perplexed and &s;ore troubled in mind, the Fountain and Ri&s;e whereof, taking its fir&s;t derivation from the pre&s;ent &s;treams or head of the Royal Off-&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ing at the <HI>Hague;</HI> for having &s;ent a Letter to her Sonne Prince <HI>Charles,</HI> to advi&s;e him to a Treaty with her Maie&s;ty, and to meet her at <HI>Amians</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> but hearing that his affections had taken Center another way, and that he could not meet her there, &s;he re&s;olved n<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t to m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ke any further addre&s;&s;e unto him, but returned backe <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o <HI>Paris,</HI> condoling much the lo&s;&s;e of her late endeared Soveraign, and the pre&s;ent proceedings of the Prince, in reference to the work in hand touching his re&s;tau|ration: And after &s;ome few dayes &s;pent in &s;erious meditations, watering her Princely bed with teares of &s;orrow, &s;he de&s;ired a conference with Mr. <HI>He<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">y Jer|min,</HI> at which &s;he declared, That &s;he had received &s;eve|rall Dictates in a Dream, and that ma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y things were revealed to her thereby, by Apparitions and Vi&s;ions, <HI>to wit;</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that if her Son Prince <HI>Charles</HI> did any wayes alienate his affections from going to <HI>Ireland,</HI> and ca&s;t him&s;elf upon the Kingdom of Scotland, He was a lo&s;t Prince, and that they would &s;erve him as they had done his Father, to &s;ell him for a &s;um of money, and &s;o deprive him of all Earthly felicity, which might a|bundantly flow from his three Crownes and King|domes.</P>
<P>Secondly, That if his vigilancy were not per&s;picu|ous to tho&s;e in power, in playing of his Game at Sea, that his De&s;igne would be &s;oone fru&s;trated, and all
<PB N="5" REF="4">hopes of re&s;tauration wholly expiated, &amp;c. Having dictated unto him the&s;e propheticall expre&s;&s;ions, Her Maje&s;ty de&s;ired, that they might be forthwith com|municated unto his Highne&s;&s;e, which was a&s;&s;erted to, and a me&s;&s;enger immediatly di&s;patched from thence to the <HI>Hague:</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>Leyden <DATE>26. Aprill, 1649.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>A York&s;hire Gentlewoman coming out of <HI>Cleve|land,</HI> to pre&s;ent &s;ome things to the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, delivered a paper to Lieut. Gen. <HI>Crumwell,</HI> con|taining matters which &s;he &s;aith &s;he had in command from God in a Vi&s;ion, <HI>viz.</HI> 1. That the Parliament re|form the Clergy, &amp; only &s;ettle &s;uch Mini&s;ters as pro|mote holine&s;&s;e and the glory of God. 2 To make the Laws of the Land plain and ju&s;t, grounded upon the Word of God. 3 To make &s;peedy and effectuall pro|vi&s;ion for the poor. 4 That differences be compo&s;ed at home, before the breaking out of further di&s;tractions abroad. The&s;e things &s;he &s;aith that &s;he being as dead for a time were revealed to her by God, &s;he beholding the glory of Heaven and the Alm<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ghty Jehovah.</P>
<P>Sir, Our dependance here is, what his gracious Maje|&s;ty will do, all de&s;ire his comming hither, but the pro|fe&s;&s;ed downright Royali&s;ts would have him come w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">h a force for there in&s;tituting him in his Right; the other party, &s;uch as reall for Presbytery, would al&s;o have him come with a new heart. Wee hear that the vulgar &s;ort of people do cry him up exceedingly; an<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ay they <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t and will have <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> King though it co&s;t them never &s;o much: here are <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ly ri&s;ings in &s;everall parts of the Country the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Hunt<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">s</HI> Son is again in arms with 2000. Gourdons to revenge his Fathers death, they have declared for <HI>Charles</HI> the &s;e|cond,
<PB N="6" REF="5">and have &s;et forth their Invitation, for all per&s;ons to come in to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance. Col. <HI>Car,</HI> and divers o|ther Engli&s;h Officers, are likewi&s;e very active in rai|&s;ing of Forces, and have &s;ent Letters of invitation into <HI>Northumberland, Cumberland,</HI> and <HI>Westmerland,</HI> for o|thers to come to them, promi&s;ing great matters of pre|ferment, but it is more then they are able to performe, for the well affected party are both vigilant &amp; active in &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of them.</P>
<P>The Committee of E&s;tates &s;it daily in con&s;ultation, and are exceedingly di&s;contented at their new Kings re|fu&s;all to grant their de&s;ires, and reject a complyance with them; whereupon many of them have declared their a&s;&s;ent for a me&s;&s;age to be &s;ent to the parliament of <HI>England,</HI> in reference to a Treaty, touching prince <HI>Charles;</HI> but many of the great Ones are divided in that particular, and the Commoners cannot indure to heare of the &s;ubver&s;ion of Monarchy.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Berwick <DATE>27 April, 1649.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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