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<P><HI>Perfect OCCURRENCES: Faithfully communicating The chief Intelligence and Proceedings of the King of</HI> Scots, <HI>the King of</HI> France, <HI>and the Prince of</HI> Conde: <HI>With the Affaires and De&s;ignes now on foot in</HI> France, Denmarke; Sweden, <HI>and</HI> Portugal, <HI>in relation to the Parliament, Army, and Common-Wealth of</HI> England.</P>
<P><HI>Containing the&s;e en&s;uing</HI> Occurrences, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P N="1"><HI>1</HI> The Me&s;&s;age and Propo&s;als of his Excellency the Lord General Cromwel, and the General Councel of the Army, to the Officers of the &s;everal Garri&s;ons and Regiments of Souldiers, both in England, Scotland, and Ireland; concerning the electing and calling of a new Parliament; the removing of heavy burdens, and grievous Oppre&s;&s;ions from the people; the regulating of all abu&s;es, both in City and Countrey; and the re&s;toring of Liberty and Freedom.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2</HI> A great &V;ictory obtained by the Engli&s;h again&s;t the Dutch; the &s;inking of the Pearl, the Dragon, the Temple of Solomon, and ten more; The re-taking of the I&s;land of Amboyna; and the putting of man, woman, and child to the &s;word.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3</HI> The States of Hollands Me&s;&s;age to &V;antrump; his advancing with his Fleet towards England; the Letters read in the Ge|neral Councel at the Hague, touching the King of Scots; And a Narrative of their pre&s;ent proceedings.</P>
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<P><HI>London, Printed for George Horton, 1653.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Perfect Occurrences, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Officers of the Army having had a General Meeting at <HI>James's We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> about the emer|gent and weighty Affairs of the Nation; in con|&s;ideration thereof, agreed upon a Letter to be &s;ent to the Officers of the &s;everal Gari&s;ons and Regiments of &s;ouldiers both in <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ire|land;</HI> a breviate whereof take as followeth; <HI>to wit,</HI></P>
<P>That after &s;everal dayes waiting at the Throne of grace, we were generally convinced, That our hearts have been looking after the things of this world, and our own privat affairs, more then the things of Je&s;us Chri&s;t and his peo|ple. That we have been overtaken with a &s;lothful &s;pirit, &amp; growing weary of the work of the Lord, have been ready to &s;ay with <HI>Baruch, Wo is me now, for the Lord hath added grief to my &s;orrow, I fainted in my &s;ighing, and find no re&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Jer. 45.3. That the people of this Nation are &s;ubject to grie|vous oppre&s;&s;ions through the ob&s;truction of ju&s;tice: and that the Lord might &s;ay to us, for whom he hath done &s;uch great things in <HI>England,</HI> as he did to his Vineyard, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 5.7. <HI>And he looked for judgment, but behold oppre&s;&s;ion; for righ|teou&s;ne&s;s, but behold a Cry.</HI> That through the corruption of many in places of Authority &s;ome good men are made to &s;uffer for con&s;cience &s;ake, and many bad men take incou|ragement in their licentious principles, and prophane pra|cti&s;es, by rea&s;on whereof wickedne&s;s doth very much a|bound among&s;t us. Upon the&s;e and the like con&s;iderations
<PB N="4" REF="3"> we have been &s;trongly convinced, that it is a duty very much incumbent upon us to awaken our &s;elves, and by all lawful wayes and meanes to endeavor the procuring of the&s;e following things, which have been promi&s;ed by the Parliament, and, as we are informed, are under their pre|&s;ent con&s;ideration.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, For the preventing the many inconveniencies ap|parently ari&s;ing from the long continuance of the &s;ame per&s;ons in &s;upreme Authority, That there may be &s;ucce&s;|&s;ive Parliaments con&s;i&s;ting of men faithful to the intere&s;t of this Common-wealth; Men of Truth, fearing God, and hating covetou&s;ne&s;s.</P>
<P>Secondly, That the Laws may be regulated in &s;uch &s;ort, that what is good in them may be maintain'd, and the cor|ruptions, abu&s;es, delayes, vexations, unnece&s;&s;ary Travels and expences, and what&s;oever &s;hall be found really bur|then&s;ome and grievous to the people, may be taken a|way</P>
<P>Thirdly, That liberty and protection may be given by a Law to all the truly godly though of d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fferent judgments to wor&s;hip God peaceably, with<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> impo&s;ing upon, or mole&s;ting one another. And that no enc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ment be thereby given to &s;uch as are popi&s;h or proph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne in the ex|erci&s;e of their &s;uper&s;titious forms, or licentious practi&s;es.</P>
<P>Fourthly, That the Go&s;pel of Je&s;us Chri&s;t may be di&s;|pen&s;ed to all the p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ple of this Commonwealth, and tho&s;e that labour faithfully in that work, receive all due coun|tenance and encouragement.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>From aboard the Leopard in Leghorn mole, <DATE><HI>January 7.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The fir&s;t of this in&s;tant the great Duke was plea&s;ed to create him&s;elf in a Galley upon the water; and at his going out, the Dutch Admiral gave him 9 guns, and all the re&s;t
<PB N="5" REF="3"> of his Fleet in order. At his going in we gave him two Vollies of &s;mall &s;hot, and 31 guns, and the re&s;t of our &s;hips in order. The 3. of Jan. his Highne&s;s &s;ent aboard a Pre&s;ent to Cap. <HI>Badiley.</HI> The 4. here came a me&s;&s;enger from Naples to the Captain, who brought Letters, informing us, That the Elizabeth and the Warwick have taken a Dutch &s;hip bound for Apulia. She was light, having in her 26 Guns. The 5 in&s;tant here came aboard the great Dukes brother, who is a Cardinal, and another Prince with him; and at their going away Cap. <HI>Badiley</HI> gave them 31 Guns.</P>
<P>This day, by Letters from our Engli&s;h Merchants at Aleppo, we are adver<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;ed that our Engli&s;h Conful there re&s;ident, has received Letters from the Engli&s;h Pre&s;ident in the Ea&s;t Indies, That at Amboyna, an I&s;land now under the command of the Dutch, which they got in time pa&s;t by bloud and treachery, there rode 9 Dutch &s;hips at An|chor, which by a &s;udden &s;torm were ca&s;t away. Mo&s;t of their men got a&s;hore thinking to &s;ave their lives; but the Natives ro&s;e, and put them all to the &s;word, and immedi|atly fell upon the Towns and Fortifications, and took them all except one ca&s;tle. They put man, woman, &amp; child to the &s;word.</P>
<P>The Engli&s;h Pre&s;ident wrote further, That he thought the Natives had gained or would quickly gain the re|maining Ca&s;tle, and that very &s;uddenly.</P>
<P>I &s;aw a copy of the Letter that came from our Aleppo Con&s;ul, and heard it read to Cap. Badiley aboard our &s;hip. A ju&s;t Judgment of the Almighty on the Dutch, for mur|thering &s;o many Engli&s;h as they did formerly on that very I&s;land.</P>
<P>We hear that Cap. <HI>Cox,</HI> with 7 &s;ail of Engli&s;h, hath had a &s;harp conflict with 11 &s;ail of Dutch; but after four hours di&s;pute obtained a glorious Victory, &s;unk one, and took Three.</P>
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<HEAD>A Letter from Holland.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe States are very bu&s;ie about ha&s;tning away the new Fleet, and have &s;ent Orders to Trump, to repair forthwith into the Channel; &s;o that he is &s;uddenly expected from the I&s;le of Ree; he hath about <HI>70</HI> fighting &s;hips, and &s;ome <HI>300</HI> Merchants. Prince Rupert is expected by &s;ome; but when he will return, no man knowes, for as yet there is no certain news of his being in any part of the world. Here are two Iri&s;h-men lately arrived out of Ireland, they have Letters from Charles Stuart, to countenance their ad|dre&s;&s;es to the State in the behalf of the Iri&s;h; yet before they deli|ver them, they have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aken the advice of the holy Fathers of their own faction, of whom there is a crew now re&s;iding at the Hague, as well as in other places; and their de&s;ign (if po&s;&s;ible) is to &s;tir up and ingage this State to do &s;omewhat again&s;t the Parliament of England in Ireland. On Wedne&s;day one of the&s;e Iri&s;h factors de|livered a Letter to their High and Mighties at the Hague. This gives ju&s;t occa&s;ions to &s;u&s;pect that the Scotti&s;h King endeavors to hook his own intere&s;t into the ingagement of this Hogen State, upon an Iri&s;h account, &s;o that if the Dutch &s;hould clap in between the&s;e two interests, they would be daintily ingaged, and a fine ble&s;&s;ing mu&s;t follow the bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Am&s;terdam</HI>
<DATE><HI>Jan. 31.</HI> &s;tilo novo.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>From Zealand</HI> <DATE> Jan. 30.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Great brags are made here of their alliance with <HI>Denmark,</HI> giving our, That they expect great &s;upplies thence for their a&s;&s;i&s;tance. But the Dani&s;h Re&s;ident here in the <HI>Hague</HI> has made an unexpected motion to their Lord&s;hips for laying a&s;ide the Treaty of Redemption, fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">merly made betwixt <HI>them</HI> and his Ma&s;ter, and re&s;ume another way, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ich fills their heds with jealou&s;ie. They have likewi&s;e an eye &s;till upon the intercour&s;e betwixt <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> &s;u&s;pecting the wor&s;t of this <HI>French</HI> application.</P>
<P>They have news al&s;o, That the Swede will in&s;i&s;t re&s;o|lutely
<PB N="7" REF="4"> upon the maintaining of a free Trade betwixt the Hans-Towns and Sweden. But we hear that her Maje&s;ty hath declared again&s;t <HI>Denmark.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>From aboard the Bryar-Frigot riding in Tinmouth haven <DATE>the <HI>27</HI> of Januarp.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>BEing the 23 in&s;tant upon the North coa&s;t in company with a Fleet of <HI>Lyn</HI> &s;hips bound hither, we fell in com|pany with a man of War belonging to <HI>Flu&s;hing,</HI> which had taken &s;ome &s;mall Engli&s;h. Our Captain immediatly gave cha&s;e to this man of war, and after an houres cha&s;e he came up with him; who after the firing of one broad &s;ide, yield|ed his &s;hip: After which we re&s;cued two of the Ve&s;&s;els he had taken. We are now arrived here with the fleet and the pri&s;e, which is a &s;hip of 15 &s;erviceable Iron guns, and well appointed with Sailes, Cables, and Ammunition. She &s;ailes well, and will make a very good man of war.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>From Mar&s;eilles</HI> <DATE>Jan. 21.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Here is no great newes, but too much &s;orrow: A <HI>Toulon</HI> French man of war hath taken an Engli&s;h &s;hip laden with 370 Hog&s;heads of Pilchards, which is brought into this Port, where they intend to make &s;ale thereof; and in very few dayes there will be 4 men of war more out of <HI>Tonlon,</HI> to go in cour&s;e, be&s;ides tho&s;e &s;hips and fire-&s;hips de&s;igned for We&s;t France.</P>
<P>From <HI>Nantes</HI> we have received adverti&s;ements of a <HI>Lon|don</HI> &s;hip of 16 guns brought thither as a prize by a Holan|der, boudd from Bilboa to the Canary I&s;lands; the Ma&s;ters name being Mr. <HI>Crane.</HI></P>
<P>But that which doth equalize this lo&s;s, is, the taking of a Flemi&s;h Ve&s;&s;el, called, the Arms of Genoa, by the War|wick frigat, who carryed her to Naples. Be&s;ides, the Pearl, the Temple of Solomon, the Dragon, and 10 more are ca&s;t
<PB N="8" REF="5"> away at <HI>Abarka,</HI> on the coa&s;t of <HI>Barbary.</HI> But the <HI>Letters</HI> from <HI>Genoa</HI> advertize, That a Flemi&s;h Merchant man that be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs a <HI>Letter of Mart,</HI> hath brought in an Engli&s;h prize which he took in <HI>Alicant-rode,</HI> riding at anchor under the command of the Ca&s;tle, at midnight. Her name is the <HI>Ro|bert</HI> and <HI>Richard,</HI> loading 120 Tuns of Oyl, and 72 &s;acks of Anni&s;eede, belonging to Mr. <HI>Robert Burdet.</HI> But &s;upplicati|ons are made to the Duke to &s;ecure her, till it be determi|ned whether &s;he be lawful prize.</P>
<P><HI>From Paris Feb.</HI> 5. <HI>&s;tilo novo.</HI> The long expected Return of Cardinal <HI>Mazarine</HI> is now accompli&s;ht; he was entertain|ed with abundance of Tryumph (being accompanied by the titular Duke of <HI>York</HI>) and was no &s;ooner entred the <HI>Lovure</HI> but the King carryed him to the Queens Lodgings, where he was received with great alacrity, and after a long conference, his Maje&s;ty invited his Eminence to a &s;tately banquet prepared on purpo&s;e for him, which was very &s;umptuous; and during the Fea&s;t a famous fire-work was prepared to play, which la&s;ted above half an hour, that the city might take notice of this joyful night of <HI>Jubilee;</HI> Yet notwith&s;tanding, the Citizens were <HI>al &agrave; mort;</HI> and very ob|&s;ervable it is, that from the Gate of their entry into the <HI>Lovure,</HI> none but a few little boys and &s;ome Porters, cryed</P>
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<CLOSER>Vive le Roy.</CLOSER>
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