warrant he will teach his Brother more Wit then to venture his neck in two such cold Climates as England and Scotland Young Tarquin slunk away in a Fly-boat and Imbarqued like Poore-Iohn ships being sent to scour the Road of King-Fishers if the young Trout had been worth taking When the Kirk stroak's up the Boy's forehead and gives him her blessing which passeth all understanding He wept at Montross's death by the Water side like a young Crocodile upon the baâ—ks of Nilus as all Kings use to do when they have worn out their Favourites Baby Charles of Scotland The Kirk longs much and is like to miscarry for a tri'd bit of young Tarquin They say young Tarquin is Landed among his gude people and must once more be Proclaimed King by the sound of Bagpipes that he may be sent after his beloved Cousin Montrosse There is not a Cavalier in England but sweares this it will come to and therefore they are mad if they stir from the Pipe and the Piss-Pot in hope of a Knighthood nor have they a mind to be led by the Nose or tied by the Tayles with those Foxes and Firebrands which frighted the Pope and the Prelates quite out of the Parish into the King's own Belly so that now she languisheth for a Cordial of new Insurrections in hope of a safe deliverance if the old Cavalry and Bumkins will be made Midwives or Monkies in the behalf of her Holinesse Cranford and Ienkins two principal Rabbies of the Leviticat Order brought a company of starcht'd faces along with them The Kirk is a Monster of a Scotch stomach whose keen appetite will know no difference between Presbyterian and Independant morsells The Thing of Scotland Landed among his beloved Beasts the Redshanks and the Highlanders Upon the Landing of Tarquin c. The young Gentleman came a shore without his Cousin Hamilton or Lauderdail and not so much as a frippery of the old Priesthood and Leiturgy Rather then Tarquin should be no King 't is but rubbing up an old Kettle or Warming-Pan and either may serve for a Scotch Coronation How Sweet the Air of a Commonwealth is beyond that of Monarchy Young Tarquin is a coming with a world of Majesty and Vermin and ther 's not a Royalist in England but dreams of an Office Sir Reverence to be at least Groom of the Stool Rabbi Ienkins what a Platter face full of impudence he presented before the Committee attended with his old gang of Luggs and Ruffs Young Tarquin creeps on still Farewell William Pryn too and farewell all ye wild Wittals of the nasty Faction An ill fate attends all that take part with the Baby of Scotland The young Lad. Young Tarquin One Rout make's Tarquin not worth a Pamphlet The Pride and Covetousnesse of a Pulpit Incendiary the Spleen and Melancholy of a Secluded Member the Purse of a City Elder and the Wit and Valour of a Presbyterian Lordling Iockie Charles His Baby Majesty The young man is full of hope and at Dundee he and the bonny Iockies are fellows at Football His pretty Majesty of Scotland the Lad behaves himself like an obedient Son of the Kirk he never moves but like a Puppet upon the Wire of the Covenant and ambles altogether after their interpretation they feed him just as the Priests did Bell and the Dragon they set meat before him but give him a Sermon of Temperance and eat up all themselves and then Catechise him with a Scotch Primmer for digestion His very Authority is all Apocrypha and the Kirk onely Canonical so that he dares not question a Tittle for fear of a whipping Iure Divine A fine Baby King for a Company of Scots to play withall The old projects that were left in Legacy by his Father There is no thriving for any whatsoever upon the same account of the Tarquins The poor Pill of Orange if things do not mend he will never be able to set an Excise upon the Provinces to buy Petticoats for his Wenches Upon the young Lad 's arrival at Dundee Ringing of Bells Shooting of Pottles and Quarts Those Canon and Demicanon of Royalty were freely discharged upon their Knees to the health of his Medlcy Majesty yet all will not avail to the health of the Baby If Iockie please to search his Pockets 't is ten to one but he will find Madam Kirk to be a Bull by an Vrchin with the Pope's Broad Seal and a dispensation for the Covenant Young Tarquin is grown sick upon his new Soveraignty This old Doctor Bishop Hall in my opinion next to William Prynne and the Mercurial Pamphleteer is one of the greatest Paper-wormes that ever crept into a Closet or Library His Clipt Majesty of Scotland The Thing called his Majesty Young Tarquin may have the luck to wipe the Nose of the Kirk's Holinesse The Idoll of Majesty The Thing called King That Puppet of their own making I dare promise will in the end if they do not look to him be their utter confusion Their great God Tarquin The young Lad begins to grow confident and hath thrown away the Kirk's Horn-Book The Kingly Kickshaw The great Lords and their Idol have a design of their own Sr. Iohn Culpepper Ambassadour Extraordinary from the Thing of Scotland that calleth it self King of great Britain The Earl of Derby intends to convert his Leaden Crown into Bullets as Queen Mall did her Jewels The young Lad of Scotland That Trifle called Charles the second and avowed the Roy Charles to be King of England and Scotland The Scotch Baby King of England Alass poor Thing he hath plaid his part long enough in this Tragedy so that now it is high time to quit the Stage since it is resolved above and below too that none of the Tarquins shall have any inheritance in England The two Birds here of the same nest shall be sent away beyond Sea The Broad Seal of young Tarquin The Diet Dwelling and Designs of young Tarquin the Plots of his great Lords c. His Baby Majesty Strip Tarquin out of all his Titles and pretty Trinkets of Majesty Iames Tarquin is not yet come from Iersey to Paris The Thing of Scotland Incheqnin the dapper Giant of the Iockies Interest The Drummes have been long beaten up in the Pulpit for young Tarquin Young Tarquins Majesty They promised the Baby a Bell a Bib and a Rattle What would you have a Royal Puppet to play withall Mother Mall made a Muster of the forlorn Fobs and Pockets of her Family The Plague Landed out of Ireland in the Western parts much about the same time with young Tarquin in England Alass poor Tarquin what a
A ROPE FOR POL. OR A HUE and CRY after MARCHEMONT NEDHAM The late Scurrulous News-writer Being a Collection of his horrid Blasphemies and Revilings against the King's Majesty his Person his Cause and his Friends published in his weekly Politicus 2 Sam. 19. 21. Shall not Shimei be put to death for this because he cursed the Lords annointed 1 Kings 2. 44 45. The King said moreover to Shimei Thou knowest all the wiceednesse thy heart is privy to that thou didst to David my Father therefore the Lord shall return thy wickednesse upon thine own head And King Solomon shall be blessed and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. An Advertisement to the READER IT has been made a Question long agoe whether more mischief then advantage were not occasion'd to the Christian world by the Invention of Typography But never was any Question more fully determin'd then this has been of late years in these Nations We have seen the Hierarchy of the Church of England traduc'd and profan'd by the Writings of zealous Incendiaries the pious and learned Governours of it loaded with loaded and accusations the reverend Clergy decry'd and almost proscrib'd yea Religion it self publickly struck at the mysteries of it despis'd by notorious Hereticks the Holy Ordinances declaim'd against by Fanaticks and Enthusiasts This in the Church In the State we have seen Sedition and Rebellion defended and propagated in full Treatises Murder Treachery Rapine Perjury Ambition Tyranny Oppression Persidiousnesse justify'd and applauded Calumny taken into the Arts of State the steps of Gods Annointed stander'd his Honour wounded with scurrility and reproach his person expos'd to scorn and derision his sufferings insulted over his just Title maliciously and impudently debas'd and the Honourable and Loyal of the Land basely aspers'd and derided Writings of this strain and many-others as they have been the issue of trayterous and postilent minds so they have been brought into the world and propagated by the assistance of the Presse But what was by others singly attempted in several waies has been in all practis'd by the late Writer of Politious Marchemont Nedham whose scurrilous Pamphlets flying every Week into all parts of the Nation 't is incredible what influence they had upon numbers of unconsidering persons who have a strange presumption that all must needs be true that is in Print This was the Goliah of the Philistines the great Champion of the late Vsurper whose Pen was in comparison of others like a Weavers beam and certainly he that shall peruse these Papers will judge that had the Devil himself the Father of Lies and who has his name from Calnmny been in this mans office he could not have exceeded him It will therefore I conceive be demanded wherefore these exceptions are now publish'd and not rather suffer'd to perish in perpetual oblivion and perhaps it will be judg'd that they deserve rather to be burn'd then read That they may be so that so grand a Delinquent Blasphemer of Gods annointed as the Author may not through the inconsider ablenesse of his person passe untaken notice of but may have some share in that satisfaction which is now intended to Iustice is the reason of this publication I have no enmity to his person but me thinks there is some kind of necessity that he that hath with so much malice calumniated his Sovereign so scurrulously abused the Nobility so impudently blasphemed the Church and so industriously poysoned the people with dangerous principles should at least carry some mark about him as the recompence of his villanies Farewel A ROPE for POLL OR A HUE and CRY AFTER MARCHEMONT NEDHAM WHy should not the Commonwealth have a Fool as well as the King had 't is a point of State and the ready Road to preferment and a Ladies Chamber Is not this a ticklish time to write Intelligence but what ever happens you shall have it to the purpose for I fear no Colours neither Black Coat nor Blew-Cap nor that Raw-head and Bloody-bones in the Royal Banner of Scotland Long may the Scotch Royal Progeny and Priesthood be all fellowes at Football and enjoy Sunshine once a Quarter for the reviving of Factions that they may never return again to stroke the Gils of the City and compare Notes with the Clergy for the Restauration of their Members and the thrice Reverend Assembly The depth of the Plot is to Barrell up their King like other Merchandise in a Dutch Hoy that he may slink away among the Fishermen and be Landed anywhere in a Kingly Pickle upon the Coast of Scotland For his better entertainment when he comes to Edinburgh there is Montross's Head of the Kirks own dressing provided for his Breakfast and mounted on the Town-house on purpose to bid him welcome and many thanks for the remembrance of his famous Services which the young man having one quality of a King hath already learned to forget How much better must it needs be for the Cavalry to live in peace with their own Country men under the present Government then to ruine themselves and Families to restore the unlucky Family of a Scot Those are the shame of Presbytery and the Goblins of that Party who make a Scarecrow of the Covenant to fright the People these are the precious Vessels that can Sail with a side-wind and tack about any way with a foisted scruple of Conscience so it be to satisfy their Concupiscence and serve a faction these are the Dreamers that speak evill of Dignities Prince Rupert being Commander in Chief over all the Squibbs and petty fire-works for his poor Majesty of Scotland The Scots put up a politick Prayer for him that God would turn his Episcopal heart to the Scottish modules and make him worship their Grand Idol as his only Diana and prove himself more affectionate to her than ever he was to any of his Mothers Maids of Honour when he lay in France at St. Germans An Act past for setling the Militia of London the next I hope will be for settling the Militia of our Priesthood of London 'T is a wonder to all men they dare be so Impudent as to make a Morter piece of the Pulpit shooting Squibs and Granadoes to blow up the Parliament certainly these people have a world of Lechery in Faction the four and twentieth of Iune is comming and they had best beware they be not taken napping for their Adulteries with the great Whore of Scotland but the comfort is they are pretty well guelt-of their Iure Divino I hope to see Crowns passe for Two pence a piece and they that take them will lose by the bargain The late Queen of England continues still in the Monastery Monasteries you know were ever accounted holy places and 't is thought they are as godly in France as ever they were in England being very comfortable retreats
wings of Popery and Prelacy one who hath been bedabbled in all the bloud of England Scotland and Ireland We have cause to cut off this accursed Line of Tyranny bloud and usurpation in this young Pretender That Tyrannical Line Charles the Father is gon to his own place and so is Charles the Son likewise he being in his own proper Nation Scotland The execution of Iustice is then most proper when an Offender appears incorrigible and by a setled obstinacy puts himself out of the capacity of mercy surely then now or never is the time that men may expect an administration of Iustice without respect of persons this being an Age that is able to take a full Prospect of such Delinquents through all the sacred Colours of Title and Function The time was when this Nation was wedded to the vanity of admiring Kings placing them in a lofty seat of impunity like Gods that were not bound to give men an Account of their Actions but had a Liberty to thunder at Pleasure and put the world into combustion so that there was no Love but Lust no Rule but the Princes will which so vassalized the Spirits of this great and mighty people that they were content to establish the highest piece of Injustice by such Maxims of Law as said The King can do no wrong as if whatsoever he did could not make him a Delinquent or Traytor nor was it Law onely but those antiquated Cheats of the Clergy too made it pass for Divinity so that the Common-wealth of England for almost 600. yeares hath been pinion'd like a Captive with that twofold Cord of the Law and the Gospel which the corrupt Professors have made use of after their own Inventions Yet notwithstanding that this glorious Idol of Royalty was elevated to such a Height over the Liberties of the Parliament and set upon the very Pinnacle of the Temple we have lived to see a noble generation of English hearts that have fetcht it down with a vengeance and cured the Land of that Idolatry by one of the most Heroick and exemplary Acts of Iustice that ever was done under the Sun Nothing farther speaking of transactions in Parliament and news a little before save that the Lord Chancellour Lowdon hath been found in bed with a Scotch Officers wife getting Privy-Counsellours so that without the mercy of the Kirk he must once more to the Stool of Repentance So great was the stupidity of Elder Times being ridden by the Clergy that in all our Chronicles we can hardly meet with a piece of Iustice done upon any of that Tribe till the time of Harry the VIII when Bishop Fisher was brought to the block as a Martyr for the Popes Supremacy and yet from Sodomy and private murder to publick Treason and Rebellion there is not any crime whereof they were not guilty and from the penalty whereof they were not guarded by impunity and exemption from secular power This having been so in time past may prompt us upon the consideration of the present Actions of many of our Ministers to believe that we may be still at the same passe that our forefathers were and that our new Clergy are still the same Idol onely a little disguised with a new dresse of Mummery they have taken a new Form but labour to hold up the old Grandeur and Punctilio's of Veneration onely here is the difference heretofore they got an outward power to controul the temporal Jurisdiction from which Plea being now non-suited in all civil Courts they now renew their sanctimonious pretences by tampering every where in the Court of Conscience but a Conscience well inform'd knows that with God there is no respect of persons and methinks in those dayes it ought to be so too among men yea it must be so since he that sate in the Royal Throne in the midst of his iniquity could not rest secure but being disrobed of all his sacred Titles laid him down upon the Block to shew all inferior Orders of men how vain it is to hope for impunity and that they must all expect to submit and bow before the Throne ofe Justice It is the old Cavaliers Interest speaking of his Majesties leaving Scotland and now coming into England that comes in new clad with a new Cloak of the Covenant after the Scottish fashion and it comes attended by the Scot the apostatizing Scot that will cide any way for a thriving voyage into England Let the Presbytery remember that though they laid not the old Tyrant down upon the Block yet the young one knows they were the men that brought him to the Scaffold and they are the old enemies of his Family in which respect he ever bore a mortal hatred to their whole faction and a little after and we will allow both Cavalier and Presbyter so much sense were their spleen never so high as not to embarque their heads and Estates in the bottom of a beaten rabble for the sake of a Toy call'd King who as he first sail'd into Scotland so now he is driven out again by pure necessity yet for fashion sake he pretends great matters and playing the second part of Perkin Warbeck who once invaded the North after the same manner with a crew of Scots at his heels and had every jot as good a Title as himself or as his Predecessour Henry the 7th and play'd the King with as good a Grace issuing out Proclamations and Declarations calling folks Rebels with as brazen à considence and tossing pardons about to no purpose till at length poor Perkin and his Scots were pack't out again with a vengeance as that Lowsy Nation ever hath been upon every offer of Invasion as may be seen in the Chronicles of both Countreys Let not the Presbyters flatter themselves upon a change that they shall scape any better than others because they never opposed this man's Person viz. his Majesty it would be ground sufficient for his hatred and the spleen of his Prelatick Clergy that they first bandied against his Father the Prerogative and Prelacy And let them consider before they feel it that revenge is reckoned inter Arcana Imperii a prime mystery in the Cabinet counsel of Royalty even the best of Kings could not refrain it as may be seen in the practise of David and Solomon Let them consider too how he hath rook't all their Party in Scotland Let the Cavalier and Compounders consider they will get nothing by this change they can be but Masters of what they have already the high Ranters and Fugitives are they that will be lookt on at Court those Belweathers of Tyranny will bear away the Bell of preferment while the poor Countrey Royalists both Gentry and Yeomen shall be glad to drudge and plow to pay those yet unknown Taxations which must needs be collected to satisfie the forlorn Brethren of the sword the Plunderers and hungry Scots that
ships surprised two ships of London and having plundered what was in her left her The Scottish King as they call him and his Courtiers have gotten an ill name in France for 't is said their counterfeit King and they have of late turn'd Coiners and set a Mint of their own a going in the Palace-Royal but with counterfeit Coin upon which they have stamp't the French Image Superscription now being weary of that Countrey he is like to leave it and an ill report behind him Prince Rupert is the man of whom the great discourse is and the Hollanders have more mind to put him upon action then his Cousin one while they will have him make work for England in Ireland and another while in the Scotch Highlands any desperate attempt over a Bog or a break-neck they think him fit for Others would have him put upon a present action at Sea and supply him with two or three Frigats to wear the King of great Britains Colours as they call them thinking these fantasies would draw away Seamen but they are not yet agreed about the Manner Scene or Stage of Action for the performance of those wonders must be wrought by Rupert When the work of Justice shall be done in the Province of Vlster as we trust it will ere long to some purpose I suppose the Land will in some measure be purged from the guilt of innocent blood These wretches which we cut off with the Sword of Justice are but part of the tail of that Serpent whose head you first lopt off in England This know that rather then the Interests of the Stewarts should be any impediment to a friendly composure between England and Holland it is laid aside and that fatal Family left to sink or swim under the weight of their own destiny And here I cannot let passe this last provisō without this remark thereupon after the mentioning of an Ordinance passed by Oliver and his Council that the people of God in these Dominions have abundant cause to blesse the Lord who hath put it into the hearts of our Governours to make such provision against the Faction called Religion of Popery and those desperate Engineers the Popish Priests who seek the ruine of us our Countrey and of the Gospel of Christ which is above all other considerations and truly there was never more need then now of such a Law seeing Popery is become the great Interest of that Family which the Lord hath cast out before us meaning the Family of the Stewarts If ever they procure any force or power again it must be upon a Popish account And that their endeavours lye wholly upon that foot is evident by Charles Stewart's many applications to the Court of Rome which are commonly known and to the Emperour besides his Alliance and Combination to and and with other Popish Princes so that the good and security of the Reformed Religion is absolutely involved in this present form of Government and the utter exclusion of that Family of the Stewarts for ever This day Charles Stuart the Princess Royal his Sister and his Brother the Duke of Glocester c. are gone by water to Mentz I find not that their Conversation here hath made them commendable to any so much as to the English Stage-players who stile themselves to be his Concerning Charles Stewart and his fortune there is great variety of opinions and inclinations in the Empire some do bewail his unfortunate condition others do not pity him at all That he might gain to himself the affection of the severall States of the Empire and oblige them to furnish him with moneys he sometimes professes himself to be a Lutheran sometimes to be a Papist but never appears to be of the Reformed Religion and that gives a very strong suspition of him among the Orthodox professours who thereupon do openly pronounce that his bad fortuneis a just judgment of God upon him He is daily seen among the Pastimes of the Common people he misses of no Comedy or Stage-play and is a constant spectatour of all kinds of Puppet-plays he is seen every where and therefore is neglected of all and having lately received a very considerable summe of money he presently wasted it The said Charles Stewart was resolved to go to Heidelberg but the Prince Elector prevented him perhaps lest the number of Illustrious Beggars should be too great in the Palatinate therefore misery hath obliged the miserable to return to Colen Charles Stewart with all his Train having finished his rambling progresse is returned again to Colen It is a great satisfaction to the well affected that a course be taken to suppresse the Cavalier Clergy and School-masters by depriving them of the opportunity to seduce the Souls and pervert the youth of the Nation The Gentleman of the King of Scots who kept correspondency as it is said with some in England was carried in a Waggon to Drynwald where he hath been shot to death with three Bullets The place where this execution was done is in the Country of the Duke of Newburgh an Apostate from the Protestant Religion and now the most Jesuited Papist in these parts and therefore so great a favourer of Charles Stewart that he admits him it seems by this action to be partly Soveraign with him by allowing him the power of life and death within his Principality Edinburgh continues in very good quiet nor is it observed that many so much as hearken after Charles Stewart It seems those few he hath raked together are most of them Irish and with such Company you may imagine how welcome he would be to Scots or English and as little welcome would he be with any other Foreigners his assistants But I suppose ther 's little regard to be had to him or his designs which usually have so fatall a successe that hitherto they have sunk all those who took his part We here cannot but observe how the Lord deals in a most remarkable way of vengeance with the King of Spain presently after his owning and taking the Stewarts into his protection hitherto none have prospered that have had to do with them and therefore they are the fittest friends that may be for the Spaniard The Titular King of Scots continueth at Brussells haveing made but little progresse in his affairs though he hath hopes given him by the House of Austria the fittest House that may be to receive him for therein he doth follow the generation of his Fathers whose jugling complyance with that House to the betraying of the Protestant Interest throughout Europe hath provoked Divine Justice to send him and his Brothers to beg Alms of the Austrian Family it being the last and if all be considered the most miserable refuge The Remnants of Charles Stuarts patched up Regiments in Flanders which for want of money began to moulder were
for him to venture himself there In the mean time I hope we shall not be ill thought on by you for having him here among us since we cannot prevent it he coming in a disguise otherwise he would soon be made to retreat hence I am wholly in the dark how it goes with you whilst from all parts it 's generally reported and written that Charles Stuart is gone to imbarque himself in some Port in or about Holland for England Hull or Lynne being his designed Landing place both which places they say are certainly made for him and that he hath such assurance from his party in England as that he doubts not to adventure in thither and carry on his design notwithstanding the large discovery you made of it and all this as they also say comes from the encouragement he hath presumed from some in England But I trust as you have been long fore-warned so you are well fore-armed to perceive them to their cost and that you have secured those and all other important Ports and places in more faithfull hands then to betray them Your enemies glory much in their expectations at this time however former attempts have failed but I trust they will be taken in their own snare God can and I hope will do it Here is a fresh report of the King of Scots being in England whereof we expect a confirmation by the next Three dayes past hath produced some matters of newes in these parts there is a considerable party of old Cavaliers risen and in Armes in Montgomery shire in North-Wales they act very publickly and are confident It 's conceived upon good grounds their purpose was and perhaps is to possesse themselves of some holds as Shrewsbury and Chirk Castle They cannot leave their old tricks and honest men cannot forget their old malice We know a little what Liberty cost and would not lose it to them though it cost us another knock We have Prisoners here most of the considerable Cavaliers in this County some evidently guilty others only suspected Also that there was an endeavour in Yorkshire to form a Party with an intent to seize York for Charles Stuart They had two Cart-fulls of Arms and Ammunition with them and divers of the Gentry among whom was Sir Henry Slingsby and Sir Richard Maleverer but they dispersed perceiving no such appearance as they expected and Sir Henry Slingsby is taken by Col. Lilburn Sir Richard Maleverer escaped home took leave of his Lady and told her his condition despaired of his estate and is fled Sir William Ingraham is also in hold The Lord Darcy had sent in six Horses with his Groom who will also be secured The Lord doth confound and scatter this phrenetick Generation in their conspiracies The like we are to expect to hear from other parts knowing they imbarque in a cause that will sink all it's owners and defenders How much then doth it concern all sober men to be active in resolution for the maintenance of the publick peace The expectation here is that Charles Stuart should be entred England and it 's said that before his entry he took a solemn Oath to allow a Liberty of Conscience The Titular Duke of York gives out to all his acquaintance that he is ready to take Horse upon the first order that shall be sent him from his Brother At the Hague things are represented as if there were great inclinations to a change in England and that for this cause Charles Stuart went from Colen Feb. 24. in design to make some advantage by the present occasion but since that we hear the wind hath been so contrary that he can find no place convenient to Land in It 's meet you should hear from me sometimes though I have been long silent The reason why I trouble you now is the report of a Comet which appeared lately here I mean young Charles the fourth King of Colen for the Papists have long enthroned and enshrined three Kings at Colen and Charles is come thither for a fourth of the same Litter The Princesse withdraws from the Hague because the States of Holland have straitned her Lodging Rooms in the Hoss for their own use which she saith belong unto her and therefore will not come thither again untill they be restored her which will be done at the Greek Kalends or at the Feast of St. Charles the second for there is talke here he shall be Canoniz'd for a Saint and a Martyr if Walter Montague or Sir Toby Matthews be chose Pope in this vacancy Here has been of late no small conflux not onely of the Royal stock the Lady Elizabeth whom the Princesse calls one of mine Aunts and the Duke of Glocester who has as much profit of his Dukedom as the Aunt and Brother have of their Kingdomes but also a great Tayl of English Fugitives and Hucksters and Chaplains and Fidlers and Gamesters of both Sexes This Tayl made me call young Charles a Comet They have been marvellous merry at Teyling with Balls and Ballets crying Victoria in England And indeed as the blaze so the gaze here was very great and that in the judgement of many Potent ones so that we long to here the issue among you which we believe to be bad to the Carolists for it was told him at Teyling that by Letters from England to the States it was clear his Highnesse the Protector knew of young Charles his coming from Colen long before he came thence which as they tell us here hath made him turn back to his Kingdome of Colen and there to enshrine himself again with his three Brethren Melchior Belthazar and Caspar because the design was known although they gave out here that all England was up in Arms for him and by their healthing and dancing drabbing and damning you would judge all their own but in very sooth it appears that you in England are notable Astrologers who could foretell a Comet before he rose and that some Mercury was and is in conjunction with him that has revealed his designs and motions and that our States are faithfull to the Protector who upon a bare rumour onely sent to the Princesse Royal that if young Charles were there he should depart the Countrey My self with the assistance of a friend have discovered and since secured an arch youth that was a Lieutenant for Charles Stuart who three or four dayes before the appearance went as a messenger from Papist to Papist and the the old crew as to a Rise telling one that was formerly a Cavie that some would raise Horse others Foot for the Scots King c. Charles Stuart for certain was at the meeting at Hessammoor All care is taken for discovery of him and all others From Dantzick they write the Holland Merchants there were so confident of C. S. his designs that they offered to sell Goods to pay for them when he should Reign