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<P>Mercurius Cambro-Britannus, <HI>THE BRITTISH MERCURY, OR THE WELCH DIURNALL.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Communicating remarkable</HI> Intelligences, <HI>and true Newes to awle the whole Kingdom, from</HI> Ian. <HI>6. to the 13. of the &s;ame, 1643.</HI></P>
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<ITEM><HI>1.</HI> Of the taking the Towne of Newca&s;tle by her prethren of Scotland, and of Sir <HI>Thomas Glenham</HI> his going to Yorke, and who it was that brought this warm newes to the City.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2.</HI> Of the enemy retreating backward from Plymmouth, her hope to take it the cleane contrary way.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>3.</HI> A de&s;cription of the taking of Sir <HI>Thomas Holts</HI> hou&s;e, by Colonell <HI>Bo&s;|wels</HI> forces, and was &s;ince fall upon Bewly, (with pretty ob&s;ervations thereon.)</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>4.</HI> Of the pre&s;sing in the We&s;t Country, and of the pre&s;t &s;ouldiers running from the Lord <HI>Hopton</HI> to a&s;si&s;t the Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>5.</HI> Of creat divi&s;ions and di&s;cords at Oxford, that aul the Cavalliers are turned Round-heads.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>6.</HI> The Bi&s;hop of Canterbury comming to <HI>hic h&aelig;c hoc,</HI> lay her on the blocke; and bring her fir&s;t to triall.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>7.</HI> The Governour of Oxford <HI>A&s;ton</HI> wounded, and a great many of the Kings &s;ouldiers wounded in the eyes.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>8.</HI> the Scots are comming with a powder, and of the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Hamiltons</HI> four or five &s;uppo&s;ed Deaths. And of the Lord <HI>Louthian.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>9.</HI> Of a divevelli&s;h plot again&s;t the City, and her de&s;cription of the matter, and the ill manners of it.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>10.</HI> Of Prince <HI>Ruperts</HI> taking an Ague upon the report of the &s;urrender of Arun|dell Ca&s;tle.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>11.</HI> Of the taking of Grafton hou&s;e, her pillage and the weaken&s;se of Belvoyre her Garri&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>12.</HI> His Maje&s;ties Proclamation, and his Maje&s;ties forgetfull promi&s;es, and un|de&s;erved pardons.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>13.</HI> Of the pre&s;ent bad condition of Oxford, and of foure Kraves that di&s;turbe the whole Commonwealth.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>Printed by</HI> Bernard Al&s;op, <HI>And publi&s;hed according to Order.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>THE BRITTISH MERCURY COMMUNICATING Remarkable <HI>Intelligences,</HI> and true <HI>Newes</HI> to awle the whole Kingdom, Munday <HI>Ianuary</HI> the 13. 1643.</HEAD>
<P>THe increa&s;e of misbegotten pamphlets hath made the Welch Mercury to be almo&s;t excluded out of their number, al|though her was alwayes carefull without favour or affection to deliver the mo&s;t true and remarkable pa&s;&s;ages, as they fall within the compa&s;&s;e of her weekly Intelligences, and in this Orbe of truth (if her may obtaine leave to appeare againe in the in the world) her will move forward with the returning of the Sun, and begin the new yeare with &s;uch pa&s;&s;ages as her doe know are mo&s;t worthy to bee preferred to your ob&s;ervation.</P>
<P>And to give her the better content, her will begin with her war|me&s;t and be&s;t newes fir&s;t. Her heare of a certaine truth, that the prave Sea-cole Towne of Newca&s;tle is taken by our brudders of Scotland, and that Sir <HI>Thomas Glenham</HI> hath quit the Towne, and is gone to Yorke; but how, when and in what manner it is taken, her &s;hall at this time forbeare to relate, till her has better information. But peleive her, 'tis very true, for her heard a pird &s;ing &s;o in a prin|ted paper on Friday la&s;t, and for her part, her will give credit to it unle&s;&s;e her heare to te contrary.</P>
<P>From Plimmouth we heare that a work which much annoy'd the towne is taken from the enemy, was took an hundred pri&s;oners, and Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> Trumpeter. The enemy hath now rai&s;ed her &s;iege foure or five miles back, and doth meane to give back untill her run away. The Cavalliers in their retreat was mi&s;erably pillage
<PB REF="3">awl the Country, drove away awl Bea&s;ts, and cattles, and fired awl hay and corn, &s;o that the Town though, freed from be&s;iegers, is in want, and if no relief &s;ent them come by Sea, was have hungry bel|lies, and was at la&s;t &s;tarve. Her know the mi&s;eries of War, and e&s;pe|cially of this uncivill war, killing was now great mercy, the Cavaliers like Canibals eate up the Kings &s;ubjects, and the King lookes on without Compa&s;sion, but
<Q><L>O mi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">reri tui Rex Regni indigna &s;erentis:</L>
<L>O King, the Kingdome and the City.</L>
<L>&V;nworthily oppre&s;t, now pitty.</L></Q></P>
<P>We hear that Collonell <HI>Bo&s;well</HI> with eight hundred hor&s;e and foot, was go on a de&s;igne again&s;t Sir <HI>Thomas Holis</HI> hou&s;e, near Bir|migham, when her came near the Knights forces was found a chal|lenge, the hou&s;e was then demanded for the u&s;e of the King and Par|liament, but they an&s;wered her would not yeild while they had a man alive. Then Cannon plaid on them unhurt, being in low rooms. After the Church was taken, being defended by 40. &s;tout French men and Iri&s;h men, who was taken pri&s;oner and one woman, afterwards they a&s;&s;ailed their workes, &s;tormed the hou&s;e, and entred in at the windowes, afterward was cry for quarter, which granted they &s;hot two in the mouth comming in the window, and thereupon our &s;oul|diers killed many of the Enemy. Was take in awl four&s;core pri&s;o|ners, and great &s;tore of rich pillage, goods, money, and plate, good booties and good breakfa&s;ts are good for &s;oldiers, and tho&s;e that win gold &s;hould wear it, as the Proverb &s;ayes of old.</P>
<P>And the &s;ame Collonell <HI>Bo&s;well</HI> was &s;ince then faln upon <HI>Bewly,</HI> between Worce&s;ter and Warwick&s;hire, and was take it and the Gar|ri&s;on, and great &s;tore of wealth and pillage, the&s;e forces and papi&s;ts malignants wil be driven out of their dens, if her be clo&s;ely followed as her do with tho&s;e in her Country, her may be &s;oon taken; her do daily catch pri&s;oners, which are kept in &s;everall pri&s;on; but in their papi&s;t charity they &s;tarve them at Oxford.</P>
<P>In the We&s;t Country (as her do hear) they pre&s;&s;e very violently, but in vaine, eight hundred pre&s;t men after they were compleatly armed to a&s;si&s;t the Lord <HI>Hopton,</HI> run away, and are awl gone to Poole Lime, and Dorche&s;ter, to fight for her King and Parliament, a good
<PB REF="3">re&s;olution and fit to be imitated; tis valour in her to run from the King to the Parliament, her Country men did &s;o, and by often run|ning away got more honour then by fighting: The Iri&s;h &s;ouldier and the Welch &s;ouldier agree in this, they love eating better then fighting.</P>
<P>From Oxford her do hear and be informed, that there are great di|vi&s;ions there between the French faction, the Spani&s;h and the more moderate party at Oxford, her do hope the&s;e divi&s;ions will bring them at la&s;t to confu&s;ions, factious per&s;ons are only kept together by di&s;&s;embling, but being offended, like Hoop-&s;ticks in a &s;aggot, they &s;oon fall out.</P>
<P>Her be informed al&s;o from Oxford that awl the Cavaliers are turn'd Roundheads, and that indeed there are no other Roundheads but them; For fir&s;t, they ride round about the Country, and plunder their round money, nay her round pottage di&s;h and round wa&s;hing Bowl, and now in a circular cour&s;e of wickedne&s;&s;e, they have brought the year round, and begin again to fall roundly about their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, they are Popes Roundheads, for they thought to bring in Popery ve|ry roundly; and by their drinking, &s;wearing and drabbing, they run roundly to hell, where the Divell &s;hall make them dance round a|bout his Coale fire, and the&s;e are the true Royall Roundheads.</P>
<P>The Be&s;hit of Canterbury his triall is deferred till Munday next, it is the Parliaments mercy to give him time of repentance, he thought to be Englands Pope, but his pride is falne: He came lately to the Parliament Hou&s;e, with a dejected countenance, and his favour that could rai&s;e dimne&s;&s;e to dignities, and put in pillory the true profe&s;|&s;ors, was turnd pale, as if he looked for death, which he de&s;erved.</P>
<P>The Governour of Oxford Collonell <HI>A&s;ton</HI> is dangerou&s;ly woun|ded, the Kings forces are indeed or may be all wounded, wounded in heart for infidelity to their Country, in con&s;cience for advancing blinde Popery, in the head for &s;etting up tyranny under the title of Prerogative, the&s;e bullets if they felt them would both hurt and heal them of their malignancy, but the Kings &s;oldiers have their eyes in their pockets, they &s;ee nothing but plunder, an pillage, and popery, which doth lead them on to fight again&s;t the Parliament.</P>
<P>Her do under&s;tand that the Scots have entred this Kingdome, but they are wi&s;e and come on <HI>lento pede,</HI> marching in winter is dif|ficult. At Oxford to revenge their comming, they impri&s;oned the
<PB REF="4">Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Hamilton,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Louthian,</HI> and the Marque&s;&s;e in thought to be &s;trangled, poy&s;oned, or removed to Bri&s;toll. Lords be mercifull unto your &s;elves and for&s;ake Oxford, and come to the Par|liament as the Earle of Bedford hath lately done, and as Collonell <HI>Hinder&s;on</HI> the Scotchman Governour of Newark, grown weary of &s;ervice, endeavours by Letters to &s;ome Scotchmen of note in London, to make her peace with the Parliament; &s;o do you malignant Lords &s;hew her grandeur and greatne&s;&s;e, in humble &s;ubmi&s;sion to the Par|liament.</P>
<P>Her be informed of the di&s;covery of a new con&s;piracy plotted by Sir <HI>Ba&s;ill Br<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">oke,</HI> a papi&s;t and pri&s;oner in the Kings Bench, <HI>Read</HI> a Je&s;uite, Ma&s;ter <HI>Riley</HI> Scout-Ma&s;ter Generall of the City, and one <HI>Violet</HI> a malignant Gold&s;mith, who under pretence of peace conf<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">|terated to rai&s;e &s;actions in the City, to impede the Parliament, and the Scots comming into the Kingdome: The&s;e men are of Oxford Tribe, and though tey be no Jewes, yet her be Shuta&s;&s;es, that would betray this City not for money, but for malice, but let them take heed that after triall they come not to Judas his end; was have no cood memory, el&s;e they might remember <HI>Challoner,</HI> and the other, who&s;e plots condemned them to the Gallowes.</P>
<P><HI>Arundell</HI> Ca&s;tle was taken by Sir <HI>William Waller,</HI> and was take there Sir <HI>Edward Ford</HI> High-Sheriffe of Su&s;&s;ex, Sir <HI>Edward Bi&s;hop,</HI> Collonell <HI>Banfield,</HI> Lieutenant Collonell <HI>Rolles,</HI> Major <HI>Ma&s;sey,</HI> Ma|jor <HI>Moulins</HI> and other Gentlemen, but Sir <HI>Edward Dering</HI> was not there. Was took al&s;o fifty Reformadoes, 1200. pri&s;oners, and their Armes, divers En&s;ignes, four thou&s;and pounds in money, and great &s;tore of rich prize and pillage. Upon the taking of this Ca&s;tle, <HI>Hop|ton</HI> hath betook him&s;elfe to Chiche&s;ter or Winche&s;ter; and upon the report thereof Prince <HI>Ropert</HI> has took an ague, and te Cavaliers are &s;ick of Sir <HI>VVilliam VValler,</HI> and the Cavaliers at Oxford cur&s;e him with Bell, Book and Candle; for Ca&s;tles are now like Barbers Cha&s;tes: The Kings Souldiers are no &s;ooner out, but the Parlia|ment &s;ouldiers are got in, was fery true capari&s;on.</P>
<P>After Grafton hou&s;e was took, her was hear that Collonell <HI>VVait</HI> was make divers encounters with the Garri&s;on of <HI>Belvoir</HI> (who&s;e name doth &s;ignifie in French <HI>a fair pro&s;pect,</HI> but now her &s;aw nothing but &s;ouldiers) who of late peaten them, and killed rivers Gentlemen of quality, and was hurt Collonell <HI>Lucas</HI> their Governour, and was
<PB REF="4">by taking 40. hor&s;e at one time, and twenty at another very weake, &s;o that her Garri&s;on of <HI>Belvoir</HI> may be ea&s;ily &s;tormed. The Kings party doth &s;till decline, and was go We&s;tward, they are driven from Town to Ca&s;tle, and know not whether to run, but run abroad they do, and &s;hark in comers and pillage. The Divell and the Cavaliers knowing their time is &s;hort, doe continually go about &s;eeking whom they may devoure.</P>
<P>Was hear of his Maje&s;ties proclamation, calling the Members of the Parliament to Oxford, in which his Maje&s;ty makes great promi&s;e of oblivions or forgetfulne&s;&s;es, which he need not do, for her know that the King hath too much forgot the Parliament, which he would now without fault forgive, and therefore doth promi&s;e her pardons, and creat &s;atisfactions, in &s;ettling matters of Religion and Liberties, and to per&s;wade her to this, it is intimated that a factious malignant party hath called in the Scots, who are comming to conquer the Engli&s;h: For the Welch Mercuries part, he had rather that England &s;hould be conquered by the S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">gts who are Prote&s;tants, and men of con&s;cience, then be conquered by Papi&s;ts, Spaniards, French, Iri&s;h Rebels, <HI>Digby, Cottington,</HI> the Prie&s;ts, Je&s;uites, Bi&s;hops, Deans, and the Devill and all.</P>
<P>From Northampton was lately goe out a troop of hor&s;e, and was take pri&s;oner Generall <HI>Rivers;</HI> and killed his Serjeant Major who was not have quarter, and was take more &s;even or eight Gentle|men, yet AULICUS &s;ayes we take no pri&s;oners of worth, for he thinks none are worth taking pri&s;oners but Kings and Princes, and therefore the Popi&s;h malignants keep the King pri&s;oner at Ox|ford.</P>
<P>Her doe heare Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e <HI>Powell</HI> who was condemned to be hang'd for harbouring of Father <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ltaker</HI> the Augu&s;tine Fryer formerly executed at Tiburne, is now honoured by great Commanders at Oxford, indeed mo&s;t of the Cavalliers are theeves and robbers, and therefore they may ju&s;tly favour whores and theeves that come out of New-gate.</P>
<P>Oxford is now &s;trangely metamorpho&s;ed, brazen faced Cavalliers doe lye in Brazen no&s;e Colledge, blood thir&s;ty &s;ouldiers in Al-&s;ouls, Commanders in <HI>Corpus-Chri&s;ti</HI> Colledge, the King and the Queene are &s;tudents of Chri&s;t-Church, and the Bi&s;hops and Je&s;uits are their Tutors; while there is more ma&s;&s;ing then dining and &s;upping, e&s;pe|cialy
<PB REF="5">among the common &s;ouldiers. But the truth is, they have not bin very merry this Chri&s;tmas, for their lo&s;&s;es have come very fa&s;t upon them, and in the Game of war the King hath lo&s;t more this Chri&s;t|mas, then in halfe a yeare before; and how can he &s;hun it, when he will not ca&s;t out of his pack, the knaves of Diamonds, or ill coun|&s;elling Courtiers, the knaves of Hearts, or the cunning Clergy-men, with the knaves of Spades and Clubs, which are the country and city malignants, let his Maje&s;ty therefore break up this game of warre and come to his Parliament, for he can win nothing but day|ly he loo&s;es the lives and hearts of his Subjects.</P>
<P>Was heare al&s;o that the Newca&s;tle powers that were in Derby|&s;hire, are drawing to the North to &s;top the progre&s;&s;e of the Scots, to whom her was beleive that the Iri&s;h will joyne, and other forces about Che&s;hire, her know that Malignants and the I|ri&s;h will hang together in their de&s;ignes, although her bee taken and hanged together on Giblets.</P>
<P>Her heare the States of Holland are landed, they came on VVed|ne&s;day la&s;t to Deal: they came as Amba&s;&s;adours to treat with her Parliament, their Me&s;&s;age her &s;hall know hereafter, for her cannot know their minds till they have delivered it; but her is confident they come for good.</P>
<P>Her will now de&s;ire her Countrymen and all Welch Brittaines, to look upon her Welch Diurnall, which doth repre&s;ent taking of Townes, pri&s;oners, pillage, bloody on&s;ets, and killing of men: and thus her Diurnall is a bloody picture of the weekly proceedings of this warre, which her wi&s;h may end in Peace, for her be weary of writing bloody truths, and therefore her will now conclude with a merry je&s;t. One thing her had almo&s;t omitted in her Diurnall; and that is, Prince <HI>Ruperts</HI> white dogge pi&s;&s;ed one night in his Ma&s;ters &s;hoe, whereupon he was by a coun&s;ell of warre condemned, but af|terwards reprieved againe, you &s;hall find it reported in the next AVLICVS, for he is an old dogge at &s;uch lyes.</P>
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