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<P>A LETTER From an Eminent Per&s;on in Glouce&s;ter, To a Friend in <HI>LONDON:</HI> Dated <HI>April</HI> 2. 1660.</P>
<P>Giving an Account of the late Pa&s;&s;a|ges there, in reference to Maior Gen. Ma&s;&s;ey.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>James Cottrel.</HI> 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>A Letter from <HI>Glouce&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Honoured Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Thank you for yours; and that inclo&s;ed. Major Gen. <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> arrived here on <HI>Saturday</HI> night la&s;t: he came in another way then was expected, on purpo&s;e to prevent the throngings of the people. He came in betwixt 7 &amp; 8, and took a private lodging. That night, the Maior, She|riffs and Aldermen came to &s;ee him. The Maior invited him and others to dinner on the morrow, being the <HI>Lords day.</HI> He heard a Sermon at St. <HI>Ni|cholas,</HI> on this text, <HI>Prov.</HI> 29.2. <HI>When the righteous are in authority, the people
<PB N="2" REF="3">rejoyce: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.</HI> After Sermon, going with the Mini&s;ter and others to the Maiors hou&s;e, and pa&s;sing by the Main Guard, the Commander in chief, (who the night before had highly complemen|ted him,) took him by the arm, intima|ting a de&s;ire to &s;peak with him privately; &s;everal of the inferiour Officers (one a Captain) crying out, <HI>Fall on, kill the Rogues.</HI> The Mini&s;ter telling them the Major General was willing to obey or|ders; and how little honour they would gain by killing men unarmed peaceably coming from hearing the Word, had four or five &s;words drawn upon him, &amp; a Pi|&s;tol fired at his ear, which did no execu|tion, but the &s;oldiers continued their cla|mour, &s;aying, <HI>The Cavaliers laid de&s;igns, and the Presbyterians preacht them up.</HI> By this time it was noi&s;ed in the City,
<PB N="3" REF="3">that the Major General and the Mini|&s;ter was killed: whereupon there was a cry, <HI>Arm, arm,</HI> through all the &s;treets; upon which above 300 appeared imme|diately in Arms. The&s;e running in a tu|multuous manner, were de&s;ired to for|bear a while; and the Mini&s;ter being relieved by &s;ome of them, he fetch'd the Maior, Aldermen, and divers of the Common Council, who engaged their words to the Commander in chief for Major Gen. <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI>'s forth coming; upon which, and upon his own Parol, he was permitted to go to dine with the <HI>Maior,</HI> being fir&s;t di&s;armed: and in this condition he remains as yet.</P>
<P>Sir, in this hurly-burly in the City, the &s;aid Officers crying, <HI>Kill, kill,</HI> as be|fore; and one of them leading a party to the Cros&s;s to oppo&s;e the Citizens, he was encountred; and being de&s;erted by
<PB N="4" REF="4">&s;ome of his followers, was forely woun|ded, and divers of tho&s;e with him: for &s;o much were the Citizens incen&s;ed, that had not great pains been taken, and much mediation u&s;ed, there had not a foot-&s;oul|dier been left alive in the City. The hor&s;e-men indeed were very civil, affir|ming them&s;elves to be for them that were for the peace of the Nation and City.</P>
<P>In about two hours time, all was quiet: Major Gen. <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> making a Speech to the Citizens, de&s;iring them to mani|fe&s;t their love to him, by a peaceable de|parture to their habitations: the Bell|man (according to the cu&s;tom) being commanded to proclaim the like.</P>
<P>The&s;e &s;tirs thus over, the Maior and Common Council &s;ate, and voted Ma|jor Gen. <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> a free man, and made him &s;o, in regard that <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> is the County-Court: but the Writ for Ele|ctions
<PB N="5" REF="4">is concealed by a certain per&s;on, (you may gue&s;s who) who al&s;o got the Order (&s;igned <HI>March</HI> 27.) to apprehend Major Gen. <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> upon pretence that he came hither to rai&s;e an Army. It is very &s;trange the Writ &s;hould be con|cealed till after Election-day: but I be|lieve he will be cho&s;en here, notwith&s;tan|ding all this oppo&s;ition.</P>
<P>La&s;t night came Major <HI>Harlow</HI> very late, (but &s;ea&s;onably) who hath under|taken to keep us in peace, and &s;top the march of a party of <HI>He&s;ilrig</HI>'s Hor&s;e &s;ent for hither by the Phanaticks, to help them here.</P>
<P>Sir, I being an eye-witne&s;s of the&s;e a|ctions, do &s;end you this Narrative, to prevent mi&s;-information. VVe are all quiet now: The City keeps a guard at the <HI>Tol&s;ey,</HI> and the Souldiers at their Main-guard. To morrow, the Militia
<PB N="6" REF="5">are to meet. And to the end the whole Nation may know the truth hereof, I de&s;ire you to communicate it by print|ing. There is onely one En&s;igne and five Souldiers wounded. The En&s;igne &s;aid the night before, that he was re&s;olved to wade up to the knees in blood, but he would have <HI>Major Gen. Ma&s;&s;ey</HI>'s heart-blood.</P>
<P>Sir, excu&s;e this trouble. I remain,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> <DATE>A|pril 2. 1660.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your affectionate Friend.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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