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<P>A LETTER from KENT: Of the Ri&s;ing at ROCHESTER THE Magazine &s;urpri&s;ed, with 1000 Armes, 100 piece of Ordnance, two Guns planted at the Bridge, 50 &s;hips in the River; And of the Treaty with them.</P>
<P>ALSO The Declaration of a young man that calls him&s;elf Prince <HI>CHARLES, And the comming in of divers to ki&s;&s;e his hand.</HI></P>
<P>WITH A Declaration of other pa&s;&s;ages from the County of KENT.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>May.</HI> 22. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Imprimatur</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gilb. Mabbott.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> by <HI>Robert Ibbit&s;on,</HI> in Smithfield, neer the Queenes-head Tavern, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>A LETTER FROM ROCHESTER in KENT, Concerning The Surprize of the Magazine, and rai&s;ing of Forces for the defence of the Towne.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YE&s;terday we had a rumor &s;pread abroad about this Towne, that &s;ix troopes of Hor&s;e were comming hither from the Ar|my to plunder the Town, and quarter here,
<PB N="2" REF="3"> and carry away divers Inhabitants for joyn|ing in a petition on Foot, for the King, which cau&s;ed a di&s;content in many who &s;eemed to beleeve the truth of it, as if it had been really &s;o intended.</P>
<P>La&s;t night &s;ome Gunnes were &s;hot off, in the night, in the &s;treets, which gave an A|larme to the town, the watch not daring to oppo&s;e them.</P>
<P>This morning early there were Drummes beaten, and hor&s;e and Foot gathered toge|ther, declaring that it was for the defence of the town again&s;t the Army, and they did in &s;hort time grow to a con&s;iderable number.</P>
<P>They marched to the Magazine, which they &s;urprized, and took out Armes for their u&s;e, with powder, &s;hot, match, and other ne|ce&s;&s;aries.</P>
<P>Al&s;o they drew out two pieces of Ord|nance upon Carriages, and placed them at the Bridge; and they &s;tood upon their guard, prote&s;ting to oppo&s;e all &s;uch as &s;hould op|po&s;e them.</P>
<P>There were in the Magazine nigh 1000
<PB N="3" REF="3"> Armes, 100 piece of Ordnance, and good &s;tore of Ammunition of all &s;orts.</P>
<P>There were about 40 or 50 &s;hips in the ri|ver, out of which many Officers came a&s;hore, both <HI>Captains, Ma&s;ters, Bo&s;ons, Gunners,</HI> and o|thers, and offered to joyn with them in the &s;aid ingagement.</P>
<P>There were thus gathered together to the number of 3 or 400 in few houres, who after increa&s;ed to more.</P>
<P>But being &s;ince &s;atisfied further in the clea|ring of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and upon a promi&s;e made to them, that all means po&s;&s;ible &s;hall be u&s;ed for &s;topping all forces from being &s;ent again&s;t them, or quartering upon them, they are much prevailed with, and the mu|tiny this night is pretty well appea&s;ed, and we hope as good as over, and that all things will be at peace here.</P>
<P>Captain <HI>Lea</HI> and others who are gone from hence towards you, will adverti&s;e you more fully of the particulars.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Roche&s;ter</HI> <DATE>21 <HI>of May</HI> 1648.</DATE> late at night.</DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>A</HI> Letter from <HI>Sandwich,</HI> concerning one who is there taken, that &s;ayes he is <HI>Prince CHARLES.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HEre came two Butchers to the Mayor, who &s;aid that there was one that pa&s;&s;ed along with them, who &s;aith that he is Prince <HI>Charles,</HI> the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> &amp; that he &s;tole away in his &s;lippers, and pa&s;&s;ed by the way of <HI>Deale,</HI> telling how many miles he &s;aid he walked in his &s;lippers, with o|ther di&s;cour&s;e which pa&s;&s;ed between him and them, &amp; that upon his report to be the Prince, they cau&s;ed Poultry to be dre&s;&s;ed, and got ready for him, with other pa&s;&s;ages between them.</P>
<P>This young man (who was the re|ported Prince) being asked of the Ma|jor,
<PB N="5" REF="4"> &amp; other Magi&s;trates of the Town, whether he was Prince <HI>Charles</HI> or not, he &s;aid he was not, denying that he &s;aid &s;o, but the Butchers affirmed it. Then it was told him, that they would &s;end him to the Parliament, and acquaint them how he had called him&s;elf &s;o.</P>
<P>The young man then replyed that (as he &s;aid) he was the Prince of <HI>Wales</HI> Prince <HI>Charles:</HI> they asked him whe|ther he was the King of <HI>Englands</HI> &s;on, &amp; he &s;aid yea, he was King <HI>Charles</HI> his &s;on, and that he had heard that that County with others adjoyning to it, had declared their affections to &s;ettle him and his Father in their Rights, &amp; that therfore he was come over to joyn with them, and that his intent is to a&s;|&s;i&s;t them for the bringing of the King his Father to <HI>London,</HI> to this purpo&s;e
<PB N="6" REF="5"> (as I hear) he did declare to the Mayor, and the re&s;t.</P>
<P>Divers that came to &s;ee him de&s;ired to ki&s;&s;e his hand, which he houlds forth to them, and &s;ome ki&s;&s;e it.</P>
<P>He came hither in very poore habit, and a cour&s;e &s;hirt upon him, but had afterwards better cloathes put upon him: But it is be|leeved by mo&s;t of judgement, that it is not the Prince; but that he was one that was ap|pointed to have been reputed &s;o, to have ani|mated the Cavaliers to joyne in a &s;peedy bo|dy, out of this &amp; &s;ome other adjacent Coun|ties, others think it was for other ends: But without que&s;tion it cannot be Prince <HI>Charles.</HI></P>
<P>This young man is of a middle &s;tature; his under lip is bigger then his upper lip: he hath &s;omewhat a flaxen haire; and his coun|tenance is pale, only that he hath been tanned with the Sunne.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Sandwich</HI> <DATE>18 <HI>May</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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