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<P>Horrible Newes from LANCASHIRE, Declared in a Letter &s;ent from <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> by one Mr. <HI>Benjamin William&s;on</HI> to Mr. <HI>Adam Andrewes</HI> Mer|chant and Inhabitant in the Burrough of <HI>Southwarke.</HI></P>
<P>Wherein is related what Tumultuous Vprores the Papi&s;ts in tho&s;e parts have lately made to the ter|ror of the Inhabitants of the &s;aid County.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a true Relation how the Prote&s;tants ro&s;e in Armes and forced them to flye.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e a large Manife&s;tation of the great care of the Sheriffe of <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> to di&s;arme the Papi&s;ts, and to prevent &s;uch Vprores and Tumults.</P>
<P>Together with an Order &s;ent from the Hou&s;e of Com|mons to the High Sheriffe of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> touching the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of the above&s;aid Tumults.</P>
<P><HI>Iohn Browne, Cler. Parl.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>J. Horton,</HI> 1642. <HI>June</HI> 3.</P>
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<HEAD>Horrible Newes from <HI>Lanca&s;hire.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe Troubles and di&s;tractions of this Kingdome are great and manifold are the plots and de&s;ig|nes, that the Papi&s;ts have in agitation both again&s;t the King and Parliament, private intentions, and publique actions, private de&s;ignes, and cunning Stratagems have beene long hatching, and now they &s;ee &s;uch di&s;trac|tions and di&s;turbances betwixt the King and Parliament, they Pre&s;ume to put that in action, which has &s;o long beene concealed.</P>
<P>A large and apparent te&s;timony of
<PB N="4" REF="3">this, late happened in Lanca&s;hire in <HI>Lanca&s;hire,</HI> on the 25. day of <HI>May</HI> with|in 7. Miles of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> upon a great Plaine, there a&s;&s;embled a great number of Papi&s;ts, to the vallew of 3. hundred, with Swords by their &s;ides, waiting as it &s;emes for &s;ome more Company, what their councells or determination, were is not yet knowne.</P>
<P>Onely this I am informed, that they affrighted the neighbouring Inhabitants &s;o that they gathered together, and put them&s;elves into a Po&s;ture of defence, in the be&s;t manner that they could, withall &s;ending with their be&s;t &s;peed to the high Sheriffe of the &s;aid County to give him information of what they had cau&s;e to feare, but the high Sheriffe being rode to <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> to cau&s;e the Order of the hou&s;es of Parliament con|cerning the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing &s;uch meetings, to be publi&s;hed, by which meanes they were fru&s;trate of their hopes, neverthe|le&s;&s;e
<PB N="5" REF="3">they tooke courage, and with unite con&s;ent march'd out upon them, and by the advice of &s;ome Gentlemen that were there, &s;ent Ma&s;&s;ages unto them to demand the cau&s;e of that a&s;sembly, it being contrary to the Command of the high Court of Parliament, withall de&s;i|ring them to depart by faire meanes, (withall giving them this to boo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e, that if they would not by faire meanes they would (knowing it to be for the pre&s;ervation of his Maie&s;ty, and the good of the Kingdome, to quell &s;uch uprores) force their departure, or make their Place of meeting a <HI>terrene Golgo|tha,</HI> and bury them and their de&s;ignes together, which blunt emba&s;sage af|frighted &s;o the Papi&s;ts, that they begun apace to take their Iourneys each to his habitation, muttering forth words full of de&s;pight and anger, as that the time &s;hould come ere long that they &s;hould repent tho&s;e words, &s;peaking as if they had &s;ome plot in agitaton.</P>
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<P> This makes the Prote&s;tants to keepe a wary Watch and looke preci&s;ely on the Catholiques, the high Sheriffe u&s;ing all &s;peedy meanes for to di&s;arme them and take away their force, hoping by that meanes to hinder any publique outrages, withall promi&s;ing to &s;tuddy and conforme them&s;elves to the Com|mands of the high Court of Parliament, they being the cheife pre&s;ervers of the King and Kingdomes peace, who&s;e Councells God direct for the be&s;t, &s;o that true Religion may be &s;ettled, Uni|ty increa&s;ed, Papi&s;try and Here&s;ie ba|ni&s;ht the confines of the Church, and Gods name prai&s;ed and glorified both in Church and Common Wealth, &s;o &s;hall the Kings Honour increa&s;e, &s;o &s;hall the Parliaments Councell pro&s;|per, and the Subiects feare be tran&s;la|ted into ioy, &s;o &s;hall tho&s;e di&s;tractions cea&s;e, and unity triumph in his ma|ie&s;ties Dominions,</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Sabbathi 28. <HI>May,</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas it appeares, that the King, &s;educed by wicked Councell, intends to make Warre again&s;t the Parliament, and under the colour of a guard to &s;ecure his Royall Per&s;on, doth command troops of Hor&s;e and Foote to a&s;&s;emble at <HI>Yorke;</HI> All which is again&s;t the Lawes of the Kingdome, tending to the di&s;&s;olution of the Parliament, and de&s;truction of his People. Jt is therefore Ordered by the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;emb|led in Parliament, that the Sheriffs of the County of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> and all other Sheriffs of the Kingdome of <HI>England</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> &s;hall by the power of that Coun|ty, and of their &s;everall Counties, re&s;pec|tively, &s;uppre&s;&s;e the rai&s;ing or comming to|gether of any Souldiers Hor&s;e or Foote, by any Warrant, Commi&s;&s;ion or Order from his Maie&s;ty without the con&s;ent of his Par|liament, and that all Per&s;ous what&s;oever
<PB N="1" REF="5">doe forbeare to execute any &s;uch Commi&s;&s;ion, or warrant for levying Souldiers, or gathe|ring them together without con&s;ent of the Parliament; And tho&s;e who &s;hall execute, or obey any &s;uch Commi&s;&s;ion, or warrant, are hereby declared to be di&s;turbers of the peace of the Kingdome. And that his Maje&s;ties loving Subjects may the better under&s;tand what the Law, and their owne duty is in this behalfe, the &s;aid Sheriffe of <HI>Lanca|&s;hire,</HI> and other Sheriffes of the other Co<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n|ties of this Kingdome re&s;pectively, &s;hall cau&s;e this pre&s;ent Order, forthwith to bee publi&s;hed in the &s;everall Market Towns within their &s;aid Counties.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Sabbathi, 28. Maii. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Ordered by the Lords in Parliament, that this &s;hall be forthwith Printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Browne, Cler. Parl.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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