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<P>Mercurius Cambro-Britannus, <HI>THE BRITTISH MERCURY; OR THE VVELCH DIURNALL.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Communicating remarkable</HI> Intelligences, <HI>and true Newes to awle the whole Kingdom, from Munday</HI> November <HI>20, to Munday the 27. 1643.</HI></P>
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<ITEM><HI>1.</HI> Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> her unmercifull plunderings in Northampton&s;hire, which her intend to make as poore as Wales.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2.</HI> Te pigge &s;ucce&s;&s;es of Sir <HI>Thomas Middleton</HI> and Sir <HI>William Brereton</HI> in Shrop&s;hire, and of teyr advancing towards We&s;t che&s;ter, which &s;pight of awle te Iri&s;h Rebells lately landed, her ferily hope, that tey will take in good time.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>3.</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham</HI> was heare was made Governour of New-ca&s;tle, and te warme newes of Coles comming to London.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>4.</HI> Te creat warre, and te quarrells like to grow high betwixt te Tevill (God ble&s;se us) and te Pope.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>5.</HI> A true Relation of horrible plunderings in Ireland, which her would have you know grew a creat deale taller then tey were by te late Ce&s;&s;ation of Armes.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>6.</HI> Her can tell you of &s;ome hopes of Peace, and how farre te French Amba&s;sa|dour will travell to pring it about.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>7.</HI> Vas tell of creat defeat given to Colonell <HI>Huddle&s;ton</HI> by her Colonell <HI>Rigby</HI> neer Thurland Ca&s;tle, and her tell how Thurland Ca&s;tle was taken all to pie|ces, and demoli&s;hed.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>8.</HI> Te creat Mount neer Plymmouth was taken by Tevill-Cavilliers, and te Te|vill will take te Cavilliers.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>9.</HI> Bazing Hou&s;e (her heare) is not taken yet, and (her heare) it is not like to be taken creat while.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>10.</HI> Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton,</HI> that hopt on to VVinche&s;ter hath now got creat pride <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> mind, and offer to face (her heare) and deface if her can Sir <HI>William Wallets</HI> men, and from awle te Roomes in her hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>11.</HI> Newes from her owne hou&s;e in her Country of VVales.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>Publi&s;hed according to Order.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed by</HI> Bernard Al&s;op, <HI>Novemb. 27. 1943.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>THE BRITTISH MERCURY COMMUNICATING Remarkable <HI>Intelligences,</HI> and true <HI>Newes</HI> to awle the whole Kingdome, from Munday <HI>November</HI> 20. to Munday <HI>Novemb.</HI> 27. 1643.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen her was a Student in te Vniver&s;ity of Oxford, nothing could be more welcome unto her, then to receive from her friends good newes, and halfe a piece of gold inclo&s;ed in a Letter, but now they write, and write, but &s;end no gold in her Letter, but cold newes; would te warre might cea&s;e, that her pen might not travell from Towne to Town to heare matters, and &s;hew all as the mayde did, who fell from her hor&s;e with her coat over her head, and di&s;covered her naked belly, and more and more be|&s;ide, whereof her will not give you account.</P>
<P>But her will make more &s;erious narrations, &amp; from Shrop&s;hire bordering on Wales, tell you that which is &s;ober cood newes, namely that Sir <HI>Thomas Mid|dleton</HI> a creat landed man in Wales, and Sir <HI>William Brereton</HI> have lately gone bravely on, and done matter of valour whereby to rai&s;e their fame, for they have lately taken Holl-Ca&s;tle being the Earle of Bridgewaters hou&s;e, both te Hall, and te Parlour, and te Kitching, and te fery hou&s;e of Office, and more|over her have lately took the Towne of Roxford, whereby te pa&s;&s;ages into North-wales are cleered, and her may by day or te light of te moone &s;afe|ly travell, te carrier may pa&s;&s;e between te legs of te mountaine, te narrow way doth lye wide open like te whore to receive awle commers.</P>
<P>Her be no Prophet, yet her doe fery well remember that her cryed out alwayes again&s;t te Iri&s;h Rebells, comming to cut te Prote&s;tants throat, but
<PB N="2" REF="3"><HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> was creat Prophete&s;&s;e, that foretold the de&s;truction of Troy, yet was not believed, and &s;o her words formerly were not regarded, but now her heare from Ireland that te &s;ouldiers are growne &s;o fery bold, that they tooke mens clo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">thes from their back, and hats from their heads; and it is thought te Iri&s;h Rebells comming into Wales on Saint Taffyes day, would take her hat with te Leek in it from her head, as they doe in Ireland.</P>
<P>And now her talke of Hull, the Earle of New-ca&s;tle hath &s;ent Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham</HI> to New-ca&s;tle with a Regiment of foot to &s;trenthen te Garri&s;on, and hath put te Towne into his protection, which occa&s;ioned &s;ome di&s;cords be|twixt Sir <HI>Thomas Glemham,</HI> and the Major of New-ca&s;tle and te &s;ouldiers on te reciving of teyr new Governour, began to mutiny for their pay due unto them, and would not be pacified, untill they were promi&s;ed that te Sea-port &s;hould be open, and that they &s;hould have liberty to make mony by &s;elling of the coale, which may be fery warme newes into the City of London, where they are faine to &s;pend their mony in Ale-hou&s;es to warme their toes, and teyr hands, in te cold weather by the fire &s;ide.</P>
<P>By a &s;hip which from forraigne parts arrived in Wales, her doe certainly under&s;tand that &s;ome grudgings hath begot a creat di&s;content betweene te Pope and te Divell, who doth intend to come again&s;t him with awle his black furies and infernall forces, but Cardinalls knowing that te Divell hath been alwayes a&s;&s;i&s;ting to te Pope and te Papi&s;ts, as in te Powder Trea&s;ons and o|ther plots, they endeavour what they can to make te Pope con&s;ider that the Devill hath been alwayes his clo&s;e friend, and that her had long &s;ince fallen out of her chaire of Supremacy, if her had not been held up by the immediate power of te Devill, and &s;o the Pope and te Cardinalls are intended to make a new Peace with te Devill, for if te Popi&s;h malignant devilli&s;h Kingdome &s;hould be divided again&s;t it &s;elfe, it could not &s;tand.</P>
<P>Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> and his Cavaliers (as her doe hear) have done creat harm in <HI>Northampton&s;hire,</HI> by their pillaging and plundering, where&s;oever they come, and doe every day take to the value of a thou&s;and pound from te Inhabitants, for now her have got a cu&s;tome of robbing, her cannot leave it; for robbing of mens hou&s;es is grown a common trade among&s;t Souldiers, and they are more to be blamed, that doe live by &s;poiling te Kings good Subjects, then tho&s;e that doe &s;teale for nece&s;&s;ities, and what will be the funerall end of aul, but a generally de&s;olations, which will come &s;peedily upon this Kingdome, for no man po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth te thing that he can call his owne, the &s;ubject having onely libertie to chu&s;e whether he will begge or &s;tarve, when aul his coods have been taken from her by te Cavaliers.</P>
<P>O Saint <HI>TAFFY,</HI> who would have thought to have &s;een &s;uch ploody
<PB N="3" REF="3">times and manners? For &s;ince the Ce&s;&s;ation of Armes, they have Killed creat many true Prote&s;tants, and have made te hand of te King, and te hand of aul <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e Commi&s;&s;ioners, that &s;igned and put creat Seal to te Articles of peace with te ploody Rebells, to be guilty of much creat deal of plood. And to &s;hew her parbarous minds, being like <HI>Gripe</HI> te U&s;urer, that doth take and get aul: the Lord of <HI>Ca&s;tlehaven</HI> hath taken in <HI>Irelaud</HI> thiry two Ca&s;tles, and killed the men that were within them, and te Inhabitants of of <HI>Wichloe</HI> have drove from <HI>Dublin</HI> 400. Cowes, and have &s;eized on merchandize, and took te own|ers prri&s;oners, and have &s;ent them afterward home almo&s;t naked, and without hat, coat or dublet, that te cold might be guilty of their blood&s;hed, and to &s;hew te Cruelty of te Barber or Chyrurgion, they cut off one mans no&s;e or lips, and &s;ome of his skull, as if they would make him an Anathomy, and reade Lectures over him, as they doe in the Surgeons Hall. But indeed the Rebells endeavour is, to ruine and extingui&s;h te Prote&s;tants quite out of te Realme.</P>
<P>Her doe love to &s;ee peace exceedingly both in the Common-wealth, and in her hou&s;e, and there is a kinde of glimmering light of peace that doth breake through the Cloud of warre, for the French Amba&s;&s;adour hath lately by his letter &s;ent unto te Hou&s;es, moved for the procuring of a peace, and her do wi&s;h with aul te heart in her pelly, that there were peace between her King and Parliament, but how can that be by &s;hedding of plood? if aul Prote&s;tants be brethren, mu&s;t her kill one another, as <HI>Kain</HI> killed <HI>Abel</HI> at the beginning of the Wold? no, no, if her King and Parliament would agree, then her might live at quiet on her Mountains, &amp; if her could &s;ee that day, her would have aul te bells to ring in <HI>Wales,</HI> make Bonfire of her bu&s;hes, and in Metheglin drink healths to her King, and to confu&s;ion of aul tho&s;e that have hindred the agree|ment between the King and Parliament, for her be weary of writing of the Warre, and her is now tyred with fighting in te War.</P>
<P>Yer her will next pre&s;ent unto your knowledge a creat defeat given to a body of te Earl of <HI>Newca&s;tles</HI> Army neer <HI>Thurland</HI> Ca&s;tle, upon the edge of <HI>Lanca&s;hire.</HI> For the &s;aid Colonell <HI>Rigby,</HI> having not above 200. hor&s;e, and 300 foot for&s;ooke the Ca&s;tle, whereunto her had formerly laid &s;iege, and advan|ted with her forces to encounter te enemy, being about 3000. hor&s;e and foot, and comming &s;uddainly upon them, put te enemy into &s;uch a fright, that they were ab&s;olutely di&s;per&s;ed and routed, many killed, and about 400. taken pri|&s;oners, among te re&s;t, Colonell <HI>Huddle&s;ton</HI> their chief Commander, and after|ward her returned to <HI>Thurland</HI> Ca&s;tle, which was pre&s;ently &s;urrendred and de|moli&s;hed. Her doe wonder that te malignants dare &s;o often appeare in te open field, unle&s;&s;e te rea&s;on is, that the Northern people being rude by nature and education, have de&s;ires to be peaten into better manners, but indeed, for
<PB N="4" REF="4">the true Cau&s;e, her mu&s;t look up among te &s;tarres, and there behold te hand of Providence, letting victorious garlands fall down on te heads of te Parliaments Souldiers, for te truth of te Prote&s;tant Cau&s;e is creat, and &s;hall in te conclu&s;i|ons prevail over te Papi&s;ts and malignants.</P>
<P>But all matters run not even in te affaires of Warr, for te creat work at <HI>Plymmouth</HI> called <HI>Mount Stamford,</HI> is taken by te enemy, and they doe want chiefly admonition, her &s;hould &s;ay Ammunition, which te Parliament will &s;pe|dily &s;end them. All te Towne&s;men have entred into a &s;olemn Oath. to live and dye together, and to oppo&s;e te enemy, by &s;tanding it out to te la&s;t man, which is indeed as a prave Re&s;olution, as if they had been aul de&s;cended from her auncient Pritti&s;h Worthy <HI>Owen Glendor,</HI> for he that would win a victory, or a faire Mi&s;tris, mu&s;t alwayes &s;tand &s;tiffely to the matter.</P>
<P>Her have read, that in old times mighty Gyants live in inchanted Ca&s;tles, and her doe now hear, that a creat company of Malignants live &s;o &s;trongly fortifyed in <HI>Bazing Hou&s;e,</HI> &s;o that Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> hath drawn his foot for|ces from thence to <HI>Farnham Ca&s;tle,</HI> for te walls be as thick as tho&s;e of <HI>Plutoes</HI> Court, where he doth live with his malignant Queen <HI>Pro&s;erpine,</HI> and there be many malignant Ladies, and other women within the Ca&s;tle, from the walls whereof, the women threw brickbats on our Souldiers heads; and bid te Souliers, <HI>Come up Round-heads if ye dare;</HI> and no doubt but her will hereafter come up, and take away aul her gold and &s;ilver that doth lie buried in te gound in te &s;heets.</P>
<P>From <HI>Scotland</HI> her be informed, that when they heard that te Article of ac|cord from te Parliameut, with te advance money, were put to &s;ea; they pre|&s;ently gave order to draw their Forces into Body, whereby they might be in te more readine&s;&s;e to advance into <HI>England,</HI> &s;o that they will make te Earl of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> fly from place to place, like her young Goat cha&s;ed by her little puppy dogge over te Mountain, for they will come to <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> and <HI>Hull,</HI> and other townes.</P>
<P>Her will now in a compendious manner tell you awle te remarkable pa&s;&s;a|ges of this week hand&s;omely packt together, becau&s;e clo&s;e doing is be&s;t un|der the &s;heet.</P>
<P>Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> doth goe in his plundering way, and hath made Northamp|ton&s;hire as poore as Wales, and is now within foure miles of Northampton Towne with a &s;trong Body of Hor&s;e.</P>
<P>Many Volantiers out of Nottingham&s;hire and Derby&s;hire are come to ayde Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>William Wallers</HI> Hor&s;e lye about te countrey to &s;tarve teyr pellies, and to keep awle provi&s;ion from comming to relieve the malignant in Bazing Hou&s;e.</P>
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<P>Sir <HI>Ralph Hopton</HI> is hopt on to Winche&s;ter, but is lame in men and Am|munition, and not able to meet with Sir <HI>William Waller.</HI></P>
<P>The Bi&s;hop of Canterbury appeared before te Parliament, but her Coun&s;ell being no cood Doctors to cleere and purge him, he was &s;ent back againe to te Tower.</P>
<P>The Earle of New-ca&s;tles Army doth moulter away, and he is &s;ick of te con&s;umption of his Army; and the Gentry of te Northerne Counties &s;tand for te Parliament.</P>
<P>Griefe it is to tell that his Majey hath &s;ent for all te Engli&s;h Regiments in Ireland to &s;erve again&s;t te Parliament, &s;ix Regiments are to be tran&s;ported to Bri&s;toll, and the Earle of Corke will bring foure other Regiments to main|taine tis unnaturall warre again&s;t te Parliament.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>William Waller</HI> (as her heare) lately took te Popi&s;h Lord <HI>Salton</HI> at New|bery. who comming from France, landed in Su&s;&s;ex, and with him four thou|&s;and pound was taken Pri&s;oner, and his Lord&s;hip is brought up to London.</P>
<P>Vpon te newes of te Advance-mony &s;ent into Scotland, they have drawne their forces into Poddies, and will &s;peedily advance into England, then toward te malignants.</P>
<P>Tere was lately &s;ome skirmi&s;hes between te Parliaments forces and te Ca|valliers at Owlney, wherein te London Red Regiment were &s;hrewdly put to it by te enemy, but yet they got honour, te only &s;alve that cures te Souldiers wounds. Sir <HI>Ralph Hoptons</HI> Dragooners have lately met with Sir <HI>William VVallers</HI> Dragooners, by whom they were turned into flying Dragons, and were awle compelled to run away, for to chance of warre can put wings upon te &s;houlders of the mo&s;t valiant Souldier, and make tem tru&s;t to their legs more then their Armes.</P>
<P>The Newes from <HI>Oxford</HI> is. that aul te affaires at Court are &s;teered by te Cabinet Coun&s;ell, as <HI>Bri&s;toll, Cottington, Digby,</HI> and &s;ome other creat Lords friends to te <HI>Iri&s;h Rebells,</HI> and preferred to the places of creat tru&s;t, that aul te world may &s;ee that te malignants de&s;igne is to extirpate the Prote&s;tants in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and to introduce Popery in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Yet te bad minds of te people are by a divine power &s;oon changed into a better temper, for tho&s;e two <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Regements that came out with Colonell <HI>Vava&s;our</HI> and <HI>Paulet,</HI> are mo&s;t of them returned to te Parliament about <HI>Glo|ce&s;ter</HI> &amp; <HI>Tewxbury;</HI> and creat &s;hentlemen in te North Country have for&s;ook te New-ca&s;tle forces, and will no longer a&s;&s;i&s;t te King in regard of te ce&s;&s;ation with te bloody Rebells in Ireland, for this ce&s;&s;ation hath made creat &s;ouldiers fall away from te King, te cruell effects which will follow, being &s;o cleerely manife&s;ted and knowne.</P>
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<P>Her will now &s;end you up &s;ome News from her own hou&s;e in <HI>Wales,</HI> which her know to be true, and therefore it may be ea&s;ily beleeved: and fir&s;t her mu&s;t inform you from te hall of her pigge-hou&s;e, that all te guns &amp; Pikes that hung again te wall, are awl taken down to &s;erve for Arms, to &s;et out her Countrey-men: Whereby the Story of te wi&s;e <HI>Solomon,</HI> giving judgment between the true mother and te Harlot concerning doviding of te child, may be plainly di&s;cerned, the Morall whereof is, That true love can admit of no de&s;troying di|vi&s;ion, and therefore &s;uch as have divided te Commonwealth into one part for te King, and the other for te Parliament, are fal&s;e-hearted Subjects both unto te State, and te Church of <HI>England.</HI> Her mu&s;t tell you al&s;o, that her creat hou&s;e. keeping is become &s;o poor and wretched, that te Mou&s;e &s;tarve in te Buttery, and te Cavaliere may ri&s;e from her long table an hungry, and not be welcome neither; was &s;trange alteration in <HI>Wales.</HI></P>
<P>From her Kitchin her mu&s;t inform you, that it hath not been warmed creat whiles: but will tell you News, that <HI>awl the Fat is in the fire</HI> (for her love Pro|verbs) that is, <HI>awl the fruitfulne&s;se of England will be con&s;umed in te flame of te Civill war.</HI> And heark you, there are more Jacks then in her kitchin, that have turned from te Parliament to te King, and from te King to te Parliament. And moreover awl her Countrey, and indeed awl te Kingdom doth now keep-a continuall Shrovetide, all their words and actions are Fritters of fraud, &s;eeth|ing in te creat skillet of malignancy, awl her Spit is turned into long-&s;word, wherewith her &s;pit one another, as her doe Wodcock in her Countrey, one in te ar&s;e of another. Te Bi&s;hops and Lawyers were &s;o &s;at, that awl their con|&s;cience dript from them, her was feed her &s;elf, let her flocke &s;tarve, creat pigg-bellys, love her kitchin better then te pulpit or te Commonwealth. Te malig|nants are like her half-baked Pyes, for between &s;tanding for te King &amp; Parlia|ment they are luke-warme, and mu&s;t come to te Oven, to make them hard and &s;tiffe for Religion. The fury of te Iri&s;h Rebells is like her very hot boyl|ing pot of di&s;cention, and te skum of te Rebells fly over into England. But now from her &s;tudy ob&s;erve, it is worth notice, that awl her liberall Arts are turned into lying Arts, and her creat books of Hi&s;tory of War between <HI>Pompey</HI> and <HI>Ce&s;ar</HI> doe blu&s;h in Vermilion to hear of te unnaturall war of te King again&s;t te Parliament. Her &s;ay al&s;o that her &s;hould tell her that no good Oratour doth or can write again&s;t te King and Parliament, for <HI>nihil dicendum e&s;t de principi|bus &amp; Parliamento ni&s;i bonum,</HI> we ought as te Frenchman &s;aith, <HI>parley bien on parley rien,</HI> &s;peak well, or &s;peak nothing, and therefore to conclude well, <HI>&V;i|vat Rex fau&s;tum &amp; foelix &s;it Parliamentum,</HI> God &s;ave te King, and ble&s;&s;e the proceedings of te Parliament; her cood write Greek too, but her would not po&s;e but plea&s;e her Readers.</P>
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