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Newes from France: or, A true discovery of the practices of divers of our English fugitives there. Wherein maliciously they would engage the French King to give assistance to His Majesty against his high court of Parliament. With the King of France's answer to their malignant counsels. Sent in a letter from Paris to a person of good account in this city, and by him published. Whereunto is added a true copy of the Londoners last petition to the high court of Parliament for peace.
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NEWES FROM FRANCE OR A TRVE DISCOVERY Of the practises of divers of our English Fugitives there Wherein maliciously they would engage the French King to give assistance to His Majesty against His High Court of PARLIAMENT With the King of FRANCE's Answer to their Malignant Counsels Sent in a Letter from PARIS to a person of good account in this City and by him published Whereunto is added a true Copy of the Londoners last Petition to the high Court of Parliament for Peace In DOMINO CONFIDO Decemb 12 LONDON Printed for Iohn Matthewes Newes from FRANCE LEtters my deare friend as well as kisses mingle soules Your free and reall correspondence you have retained with me since my arrivall into these forraine parts having conveyed my heart into thy bosome and transported thine hither as it were in a mutuall exchange France is full of the Relation of the English affaires with us in Paris there are many discourses of the late battell but I beleeve but a few true ones though the Malignants and fugitives of our Nation here cry no the Cavaliers victorious which we that love our Countrey hope is not truth Here are rumours of Forces which the King of France has in Picardy at Calice Bulloigne and other opposite parts to our English shore with a Fleet also in those Havens I make no doubt but you have heard of them in England whither some conjectured they were to be imployed but I have with my most industrious care and my best intelligence striv'd to get knowledge in that affaire which bona fide I shall impart to you as I have received the notice from some of good and eminent credit in this Court It is not unknowne to thee gentle Will that Paris and other parts of France have been the constant Sanctuary to which our English Delinquents voted so since the Session of the High Court of Parliament I meane such as could escape the Island have resotted for refuge as Secretary Windebanke Master Iermin and the rest of those turbulent spirits that like the fellow that set Diana's Temple on fire at Ephesus onely to leave a memory though of mischief to posterity sought to acquire fame to themselves by their Countries ruine And these men have with their utmost endeavours striv'd to endeare their cause to the King of France exemplifying the injustice of their sufferings and candalizing as much as t is possible for persons of their spleene and malice the Intentions and actions of the Honourable the High Court of Parliament especially Master Iermin who by the meanes of his acquaintance in the Court of France where sometimes hee was Embassadour and by the Commands of the Queene of England hath indifferent respects and free admittance into the society of the best there the King himself affording him his care very often To whom hee did remonstrate with much earnestnesse the affaires of his Majesty of England intimating how injuriously they dealt with him here that he was in a manner expulsed by violence from his Palace that his Royall Consort his Majesties Sister the Queen was as it were enforced to reside for her safety in the Netherlands That his Master the King could not with so much interest challenge aid or expect succours from any Prince of Christendome as from his Majesty being his next neighbour and his brother That hee was for the common interest of Kings and their honour engaged to the cause being so prejudiciall to Majesty to have subjects as it were give Lawes to their Prince And therefore hedesired his Majesty would please to transferre an able Fleet with good store of ammunition and all other military provision into the North of England for the Kings assistance whom he was confident would make his Majesty ample retribution for his curtesie and be ready to serve him in any affaire with his best ability The King of France as I was credibly informed shaping M. Iermyn this answer That for his good Brother the King of Englands troubles he was as much afflicted as if they had hapned to himselfe that he could heartily will that a sudden and faire attonement were made up between the King and his Parliament whom hee conceived very honourably of and that he could not beleeve so many brave and loyall men of ability and worth as were assembled in the present Parliament would do any thing against their allegeance to their Soveraigne or the peace and safety of the Kingdom that it was absolutely affirmed that King Charles was rather mis-informed against his Parliament by some Malignants then that his Parliament did either offer or intend any violence to his sacred person or diminution to his royall dignity or Prerogative That for the Queene his deare Sister hee conceived she went into Holland for her healths sake and to accompany her daughter the Princesse rather then of feare of her safety in England That for the setting forth of any Fleet or sending hither any provisions of War as the case stood with him though he would gladly furnish his Majesty with any assistance in his power yet he could no way possible grant his desires having imployment for all his ships men and ammunition having the King of Spaine to enemy in all parts of his Dominions being enforced to keepe three severall Armies on foot against him viz. one in Picardy to secure those Frontiers from the invasion of the Low-countries one in Gascony to repell the attempts of the Biscayners and a third in Berne and Languedock to assist the Catalonians that had put themselves into his protection and that besides hee did conceive he could not with the safety of the amity between France and England send any Forces into that Kingdome against the PARLIAMENT which he considently beleeved were full of duty and good intentions to the KING and therefore prayed Master Iermin to cease any further treaty in that behalfe which he could not in honour listen to nor withsafety put in practice the Councell of France being not to be won to give their consents to any thing that might infringe the league with England Master Iermines cake being dowe as the saying is with this reply and that refussall of his purpose hath not to my best notice since solicited his suit but rests here without much noyse And in good troth if my bolt may be hot in affaires so sarre above my capacity there is no possibility had the French any intentions to attempt ought against the Kingdom of England that it should suit to any effect the army and fleet which was at Calico and about those parts being billetted thereabouts meerly for the defence of those Provinces against the incursions of the Walloons who from their garrisons of Graveling Saint Omers Bapam Ayres Bethun and Cambray daily and mightily infest those frontiers with their parties and for any ships they cannot peep out of their ports of Bollone Calico or Haberdugrave but the little Dunkerker hath them by the backe who watch all advantages to surprize the
Frenches and for any of the other parts of France they are either too remote from our English coasts or unfurnish'd of any cousiderable number of vessells Burdeaux and the river of Garoune which have the most and best ships being very loth to have any enmity with England whither they vend their wines deriving to themselves and all the whole Countrey large annuall emoluments out of their traffique with that Kingdome and for the ports of France in the Mediterranean seas they were very simple that would imagine the King of France would bring any of his men of war from Marseilles which consist most part of Galleys into our seas in which they are uselesse by the long tract of the Spanish coasts being they must needs passe the straights which are constantly guarded with store of able galleys both to stop the passages of the Prench and Turks so that the malignants in England may as well hope for succours out of the world in the Moone as our of any part of Prance and for ammunition especially powder and lead the frequent and divers warres here have rendred it so scarce that they would gladliet purchase it in England then export it out of their owne Countrey this is my conjecture in which I am certaine I have not drawne my arrow by ill aime if I hit not the marke For other newes here in Paris it is all of the ordinary sort the nimble witted French Taylors have brought up a new fashion of doublets upon whose skirts none shall sit they being for their smalnesse scarce discernable some thirty about a doublet I make no doubt you will have it ere long with you in London and be a la mode de France there is rumour here that the Pope is lately dead and that there is like to be a shrewd contention among the Cardinalls The Spanish faction standing for Cardinall Spâ—nola and the French for the old Popes Nephew Would all were peace in England on the condition all the Conclave of them were at the gallowes and so dearest Will adieu and be sure there is nothing more pretious to me then thy love I being so many wayes ingaged thy Servant W. S. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE LORDS and COMMONS Now assembled in the high Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of divers Inhabitants of the City of LONDON and the Liberties thereof SHEVVETH THat the present sense of our miseries and apprehension of inevitable ruine both of the Church and Common-wealth make us to become humble duitors to this Honourable Assembly the likest meanes under God for our reliefe to consider our distressed estates and to provide a speedy remedy for our present and future evills earnestly desiring you to weigh the care and judgement of our Predicessors who by a knowne Law settled and preserved our Protestant Religion our Liberties and Properties with a right understanding between King and Subjects which produced peace and plenty in our streets And to reflect with serious thoughts upon our present distempers violating Religion by Papists and Sectaries engaging our Nation into a civill bloody and derstructive war invading our Lawes and Liberties endangering all our lives and utterly disinabling us to relieve our distressed brethren in Ireland We beseech you likewise to consider the effects of a continued war as the distruction of Christians the unnaturall effusion of blood fathers against sonnes brothers by brothers friends by friends slaine then famine and sicknesse the followers of a civill war making way for a generall confusion and invasion by a forraigne Nation while our Treasure is exhausted our Trade lost and the Kingdome dispeopled These things weighed and enlarged by your wisedomes we doubt not will be as strong motives in you to labour as in us to desire a speedy Peace and a happy Accommodation Wherefore wee humbly crave that not lending an eare to any fomenters of these present wars under what pretence soever nor remembring ought that may increase jealousies or continue divisions betweene his Majesty and his House of Parliament you will speedily tender his Majesty according to his Royall inimations such Propositions for Accommodation as hee may with honour and safety to the whole Kingdome accept For effecting whereof wee shall be ready to assist you with the best and utmost of our abilities and whilest you endeavour Peace wee shall send up our Prayers to Heaven for the blessing of Peace upon you and all that desire it FINIS