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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>A perfect Relation of four LETTERS OF Great Con&s;equence, Read in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons, Octob.</HI> 11. and 12.</P>
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<ITEM>1. The King of Spaine His Letter to His Amba&s;&s;adour, concerning the Affairs in <HI>England.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Of the taking of five &s;hips by the Mar|chant Adventurers, that were comming out of Spain to aid the Rebels in <HI>Ireland,</HI> with great &s;tore of mo|ney, Arms and Ammunition.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Captain <HI>Thomp&s;ons</HI> Relation to the Hou&s;e, of his taking Sir <HI>Edward Berkeley,</HI> and divers others in the County of <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI> and his bringing of them up to <HI>London.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Secretary <HI>Nicholas</HI> his Letter, concerning the Earl of E&s;&s;ex.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>October</HI> 14. Printed for <HI>Robert Wood,</HI> 164<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
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<HEAD>A RELATION <HI>OF</HI> The taking of five &s;hips by the <HI>Marchant</HI> Adventurers, that were comming out of Spain to aid the Rebels in Ireland, with great &s;tore of money, Arms, and Ammunition.</HEAD>
<P>O O <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> la&s;t Letters were read in the Hou&s;e of Commons, inti|mating, that the <HI>Marchant Ad|venturers</HI> for <HI>Ireland,</HI> had taken five &s;hips which were comming from <HI>Spain,</HI> laden with Ammunition and other provi&s;ion for warre, that were comming towards <HI>Limbrick</HI> to aid the Rebels in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and as it is credibly informed, they took with
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the &s;aid &s;hips, and ammunition at lea&s;t 30000. l, in money.</P>
<P>Whereupon the Hou&s;e taking it into &s;erious con&s;ideration, that it is a Breach of the Treaty between <HI>Spain</HI> and <HI>Eng|land,</HI> that they &s;hould &s;end aid into <HI>Ire|land,</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t tho&s;e that are Rebels to the Crown of <HI>England,</HI> they &s;ent to the Spa|ni&s;h Emba&s;&s;adour, to de&s;ire him to &s;end to His Ma&s;ter the Catholique King, that He &s;hould prevent the comming over of any &s;uch aid and a&s;&s;i&s;tance into <HI>Ireland,</HI> or any other part of His Maje&s;ties Do|minions, becau&s;e it is plainly again&s;t the <HI>Articles of Peace,</HI> between <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Spain.</HI></P>
<P>And becau&s;e the Dunkirks do rob and pillage our Engli&s;h Marchants, and others of His Maje&s;ties good &s;ubjects, and do u&s;e their uttermo&s;t endeavour to bring relief to the Rebels in <HI>Ireland,</HI> the Parliament hath granted Letters of Mort to certain Merchants to &s;end out &s;hips to clen&s;e the Seas, and to ceize upon all Pyrats or other &s;hips &s;ending aid to the Rebels in <HI>Jre|land,</HI>
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or again&s;t the Parliament, and to take them as their lawfull Prize.</P>
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<HEAD>A Letter from the King of <HI>Spain</HI> to His Privie Coun&s;ell at <HI>Madrid</HI> in <HI>Spain,</HI> when they were con&s;ulting of the Affaires of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Germanie.</HI></HEAD>
<P>RIght Tru&s;t, and well beloved Co|&s;ens and Coun&s;ellours, we greete you well, Wheras We had a hope by Our Agents in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Germany,</HI> to effect that great Work of the We&s;tern Empire, and likewi&s;e on the other &s;ide to &s;urprize <HI>Venice,</HI> and &s;o incerculing Eu|rope at an in&s;tance, and to enfold it in Our arms to make the ea&s;ier Rode upon the Turk in <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> and at length to reduce all the World to Our Catholique Com|mand. And whereas to this holy end We had &s;ecret and &s;ure plots and projects on foot in all Chri&s;tendome, and good In|telligence from all Courts.</P>
<P><PB REF="4">Know ye, that wee have received late and &s;ad News of the apprehen&s;ion of our mo&s;t tru&s;ty and all <HI>Pentioner Barnevelt,</HI> &amp; of the di&s;covery of other our Intend|ments, &s;o that our hopes are for the pre|&s;ent adjorned, till after more convenient and au&s;picious time.</P>
<P>Wee therfore will ye pre&s;ently upon &s;ight hereof, to break off your con&s;ultati|on, and repair &s;traight to Our pre&s;ence, there to take further directions, and pro|ceed as the nece&s;&s;ity of the time and cau&s;e &s;hall require.</P>
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<HEAD>Captain Thomp&s;ons Report to the Hou&s;e of of Commons, October <HI>12.</HI></HEAD>
<P>On <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> Captain <HI>Thomp&s;on</HI> that hath done good &s;ervice for the <HI>Parlia|ment</HI> in <HI>Somer&s;et&s;hire,</HI> came to the Hou&s;e, certifying them, that he had with much difficulty and danger taken Sir <HI>Edward Radgar,</HI> Sir <HI>Edward Berkly,</HI> and certain o|thers of tho&s;e that were the principall Incendiaries of di&s;cord in that County,
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and that they were comming up with a guard to the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and would be at <HI>London</HI> this night.</P>
<P>A Letter was intercepted going from <HI>Secrerary Nicholas</HI> to the E. of <HI>Newcastle,</HI> affirming with confidence, that Colonell <HI>Sands</HI> &s;hould acknowledg he was through mi&s;-information, and his own ambition, drawn to &s;ide with the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and that his con&s;cience did &s;atisfie he was in|gaged in a bad cau&s;e, and craved pardon of God and the King, and would hereaf|ter, if he recovered turn again&s;t the Par|liament.</P>
<P>This being made known to Collonell <HI>Sands</HI> at <HI>Worce&s;ter, October</HI> 4. he did ex|pre&s;&s;e much Indignation again&s;t the <HI>Se|crerary,</HI> and &s;aid that &s;uch perfidious per|&s;ons as he was, did make the King do th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t he would not doe, and that it was fal&s;e which the <HI>Secretary</HI> had written: For he was &s;o farre from repenting to lay down his life in this Cau&s;e in the King and Parliaments behalf, that if he had tenne thou&s;and lives he would &s;acrifice them
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all, and was &s;atisfied in his con&s;cience, that they were the Kings be&s;t &s;ubjects that &s;tood with the Parliament to defend Religion, Laws and Liberties, and they the wor&s;t Subjects that did advi&s;e or a&s;|&s;i&s;t his Maje&s;ty by force to de&s;troy His <HI>Parliament,</HI> and in them Religion, Lawes and Libertie.</P>
<P>The <HI>Secretary</HI> further writ, that the E&s;&s;exians were but 8000. foot, and 2000. Hor&s;e, and that His Maje&s;ty had 5600. foot well armed, be&s;ides the Lord <HI>Strange</HI> 3000. men, and that His Maje&s;ty intends for <HI>London.</HI></P>
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