hath quitted their works upon the hills and likewise 2 fforts lately built upon the river and are lately retired into ye Town Castle. It is sd our Grand field is gone to K.sale to bombard y' place. its sd yt ye 26th, past yt Glascow an vniv'sity were examined before the Committee & 2 was deprived, D'. Keel is made principall of Edenburgh Colledge Dr. Camball and Law professors of philosophy and Mr. Gregory profess' of ye Mathematicks has a week given him to consider about taking the Oath and subscribe ye Confession. it is s yt ye Highland Rebells are marched to the Isle of Mull to prevent ye landing of Argile's forces.-A Dutch Caper hath brought into plymouth a ffr: prize, & 40 saile of Shipps were seen supposed to be ye Straight fleet. S' Jonathan Cook an E. an India Merchant hath given 500€ to be distributed amongst ye Irish refuges. This day a proclamacon was published for a Gen". thanksgiving throughout all England and Wales on Sunday ye 19th for his Majtys good success in Ireland and ye ffast to be discontinued, A fform of prayer made for y' purpose.-Last night ye Ks received an Express from ye E. of Marlborough y' he had taken Cork after a seige of 4 days and the Garrison consisting of 4000 men were made prisoners of War, amongst whom was ye E. of Clancarty E. of Tirone Coll Killaleer &c. ye Castle wth all its forces was delivrd: up immediately in this action ye D. of Grafton who led on ye Granadeers was mortally wounded, and after his Lop. made Coll Holme Gov': of ye Town and was marching wth his forces agt Kinsale the Irish has lost between 2 and 300.-The ffr: K. is sending Envoys to sevill Courts of Christendome to make intercession with ye confederates for a Cessaition of Armes. S' pray yu send M2. Edmund 1 Iustin's History if y" have and by yu GREAT preparacons are made for ye Kings departure on friday next his Majtie: being resolved this Campaigne to lead the Army up in his owne pson. 145200lb is brought into ye Exchequer upon surviv'ship. Our fleet this sumer will consist of 50 English and Duth capital ships besides Cruses and ye straits squadron. All ye Officers of ye Kings Army are ordered to compleate their Companies forthwith upon paine of Death. They say the Discent is to be composed of 1600 out of England 10,000 from fflanders 4000 from Scotland, 6000 from Ireland, and his Majtie, will come from fflandrs. and head ye Discent in pson. Yesterday here arrived a pson from Dunkirke who was prisoner there for 2 months taken by Captin Bart. he says there are now in that Port 120 Saile of which 62 are Daynes and sweedes 12 portiguesses, and there has been brought in as prizes 36 Vessels of English, adding that there were two of y Vessels who have brought thither Lead and Powder, have taken their Cockett for Ostend, and 9 Engl: Colliers were brought in there, he says further the Garrison consists of 7564 Men. ye begin to demolish Dixmond and ffurness. We have advice from Scotland that one of ye Kings ffrigots has taken a ffrench man of war of.... Guns A new Sect is said lately to be started up here, which is called yo free seekers, one of ye cheif promoters p'tends some Revelacon in Scripture beyond ye Quaker. They write from Edenburg, that a pson is to be Executed at ye Markett Crosse for forceing a Girl of 12 years old who dyed soone after. A Camp will be formed on Honseley Heath this summer. Yesterday 2 Bakers of this Citty were seized and committed to prison for sending Corne into France. A woman Clipper and her two servants were this week seized in yo Citty and Committed much Clippings being found in her custody and a great quantity of stolen plaite. Messina ffebruary yo 3. A List of ye places that have been destroyed with the number of psons who have perrished in the terrible Earth Quakes, according to ye Relacons yt are hitherto come from ye sevrall places of this Island. Calatgirone. abt a 4th of ye Citty ruined 1500 psons killed. Luochuela. quite destroyed wth most of ye Inhabitants number not known. Mineo. a Royall Citty most of it fallen and 3000 psons killed. Militello. quite destroyed with many of ye Inhabitants ye number not yet known. Palaonia. very much shattered but few psons killed. Scordia. ye Palace fallen downe and 20 psons killed. Augusta. quite destroyed and 5000 killed. Chiuramont. quite destroyed and 300 killed. Vizzini. quite ruined and 3000 killed. Licodia. destroyed and 400 killed. Calania. wholely destroyed and 1800 killed. year. Sr. Tho: Lane & Sr. Co. Tho: Cook are to be Shrives for ye next The E: of Marleborow & others are admitted to bayle. The E: of Yarmouth bayled by E: of Kent Ailsbury &c. there are also bayl'd Barnard Howard Esq. Sr. Ro: Thurrold, Coll Powell, Coll. Willˇms, Capt. Brereton, Coll. Hales, Edward Ridley, Esq', Majo". Hastings, Ro: fferguson, Ro: Paston Esq. &c. The E: of Sailsbury & Coll. Langston did not desire bayle. Paris ye 15th, K. James designes being frustrated would spend his dayes in peace wth. Christendom. Port la Hogue is ordered by ye Marine Officers to be made as defensible as Dunkirk & to yt end Marqs. de has remitted a great Sume of money. The Turks are for treating wth, ye Emper. for a peace. Tuesday Admill Russell wth, ye fleet sett Sail, ye Clowsley Gally took a ffar Advice boat of 6 Guns going to St. Malloes wth. news of ye English They write from Bristoll yt ye ffr privateers have taken 3 Ketches & 6 or 7 Merch'. Ships. 30,000€ more was sent to Portsmouth to hasten ye navall p'parations, our ffleet are sailing for St. Malloes to burn all ye ffr Shipps und'. Vice Adm'll Renault. The Indian prince is arrived here & shown for a rarity. London June ye 18th: 92 INFORMACONS are drawing up agt. m2 Planet & m2 Young a Clergy for falsly accusing ye B'p of Rochester This morning came in a Holland Maile wth advice from ye Confed'ate Camp yt most of ye Army has passed ye Sambre & had intercepted 400 ffr wagons going wth pvisions to ye ffr Camp & had seized most of ye enemyes baggage &c in a wood, & yt ye Garrison of Charleroy had taken 150 wagons & 200 Oxen, killing 60 of ye Convoy & takeing 80 prison's. On ye 20th: ye besieged made a vigorous Sally & after a sharp Conflict regained ye divells house forceing ye enemy from a battery. The Enemy has made 3 brisk Attacks on ye out works of ffort Will, in one they lost 4 Majors: 20 Capts. 2 Cornetts, in a 2d 2 Coll's 16 Capt. besides a great number of Subaltern officers. in ye 3d they made a vigorous assault on ye Counterscarp in wch. were imploy'd all ye Gent de Arms wth. Educers of Gent Voluntiers & after a sharp resistance possessed ymselves of it, whereupon ye besieged sprung a Myne & blew up 700 of ym & at ye same tyme makeing a Sally beat ym of wth, ye losse of 200 of ym. after yt Coll. Leghorne wth, a pty of 500 men from ye Castle cutt ye throats of 900 horses feeding in a meadow in sight of ye Enemy. P fforrage for horses is very scarce in ye ffr Camp. the D: of Luxemburg lost 900 men in attempting to raise ye Siege, K. Wm lyes at ye head of ye river Maheme to intercept ye Enemyes pvisions. The Gov'nor declares he will hold it out till he hath but 100 men left, he hath blown up ye divells house The principall causes of the encrease of Papists. 1. THE want of the due execution of the laws against Iesuits seminaries religious preists & other recusants partly occasioned by the contriuence of the State, partly by some defect in the laws themselues & partly by the manifold abuses. 2. The interposinge of forraigne princes by there Embassadors & agents in fauour of ym. 3. There great concorse in the Citty and there frequent conventicles & confederacies there. 4. There open and vsuall resorts to the houses & chappels of forraigne Embassadors. 5. The education of there children in seminaries & other places of there religion in forraine parts wch, haue beene greatly multiplied & enlarged for the entertaininge of English. 6. That in some places of your realme your people are not suficiently instructed in the knowledge of true relligion. 7. The licencious pmittinge of popisshe books and their dispersinge, the imploimt of evill affected in Religion in placs of gov'nmt who do shelf or may countenance the popisshe pties. The Remedies against theise. That the youth of this Realme be carefullie educated by able & Religious schole masts yt they be inioyned dilligently to Catechise and instruct their scholls. in the grounds of true Religion. and wheras itt doth plainly appeare that sundry popisshe scholem". dissemblinge their Religion have craftily crept in and obteyned placs of teachinge in divise Countries and therby infected & puerted their schollers and so fitted them to be transported to their popisshe seminaries beiond sees yt therefore there may be great care in the choice and admittance of scholems yt the ordinaries may diligently enquire of their demeanors. and pceed to the removinge of such as shalbe any way's suspected. |