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A71352	Mercurius publicus: comprising the sum of forraign intelligence ...[no.31 (26 July-2 Aug 1660)]; Mercurius publicus (London, England : 1659)	Muddiman, Henry, fl.1659-1666, editor.; Dury, Giles editor.; Newcomb, Thomas, d. 1681 or 2, publisher.	1660 (1660)	Thomason E186_24	11,943	16

Numb. 31. Mercurius Publicus COMPRISING The Sum of Forraign Intelligence WITH The Affairs now in Agitation in England Scotland and Ireland For Information of the People Published by Order From Thursday July 26. to Thursday August 2. 1660. Whitehal AMong a thousand other Observations which His MAJESTIES Travels and Afflictions have taught Him one is the Interest of this Island as to Fishing which His MAJESTY comprehends so perfectly that as He needs no Council to advise so no Neighbour States or Nation but will finde it and this is one of those infinite Blessings we enjoy in such a Prince as unless we be stark staring mad will render us the most happy people under Heaven For which purpose hath His MAJES●Y now sent a Letter to the Lord Mayor of London a true Copie whereof we here give you CHARLS R. Right Trusty and Well beloved We Greet you well WHereas Our Royal Father of Blessed Memory did in the Year one thousand six hundred thirty and two Constitute and Establish a Society of Fishers and Declared That He was resolved by all good occasions favourably to assist and graciously accept the forwardness of all those that should express their zeal to His Majesties Service in so general and publique an Undertaking It being then Resolved and Concluded by His Majesty that it was very honourable and necessary for this Kingdom Now that the true managing and most advantagious prosecution thereof is by experience discovered by Philip late Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery and his Associates who did cause sandry Fishing Vessels to be provided and built which employed many Families in making of Nets and other provisions o●e Vessel employing twenty Families in Work besides the breeding of Country youths to be made serviceable Mariners in short time as by the Book called The Royal Herring Buss Fishings presented unto Us doth plainly appear And whereas We are informed that the Nation doth abound with great numbers of poor Families and Vagrants who for wa●t of employment are like to perish unless some speedy care be taken for their relief And that the several Wards and Suburbs of this Our City of London and Hamlets adjacent are burthened with multitudes of poor peopl● not only which are born in the said places but such as come out of sund●y Countries to s●ek Relief For Redress whereof We do hereby recommend unto the care of you Our Lord Major of the said City to advise with each Alderm●n and cause his Ward-moot Inquest ●o give in a particular of all the poor Inhabitants within his Ward what their employment is and how many are without employment and present the same to the rest of the Inhabitants to his Ward with a Copie thereof and excite them to a free subscription for Ruising a Stock to buy Hemp and Cl●●●ards to make H●rring Fishing Nets and Barrel for the furnishing and fi●ting 〈…〉 Busse or Fishing Vessel to belong to the said Ward which will give all the Poor and Vagrants employment the said Ward husbanding the same to their best advantage The which We shall in like manner recommended all the Counties Cities and Towns within our Dominions whereby to make it a National employment for the general gro● and will give all fitting assistance unto the Undertakers for their encouragement ● That so when Provisions shall be made ready and Store-houses built in commodious places about the River of Thames where breaches have been made and the like in the several Ports Magazines may be sitted with Nets Cask Salt and all things in readiness The Busses may all go forth to Our Island of Sheetland as their Re●dezvous to keep together in their Fishing according to certain Orders prescribed in the aforesaid Book and to take that Priviledge of the Fishing Grounds which belongs to Us before all Nations whatsoever And so we bid you heartily Farewel Given at our Court at Whitehall this 23. day of July in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign By his Majesties Command Ed. Nicholas To Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved the Lord Mayor of Our City of London to be communicated to the Court of Aldermen We have already given you an account how highly the Nation of Scotland is satisfied We shall now present you with the state of Affairs in Ireland wherein it will be very considerable to look into the affections of the Army which we shal offer you in their own words as they were presented in an Address to his Majesty by the Right Honourable the Lord Broghil viz. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty The humble Address of the Officers of your Majesties Army in and near Dublin in Ireland NOthing can in degrees so fully proportion our sorrow for the murther of your Royal Father as our joy for your Restauration 'T is your Majesties Glory and our satisfaction that God hath effected it without blood the world sees 't is the day of his power the people are so willing in it none as men but must say 't is wonderful in our eyes and none as Christians but will say it is the Lords doings Your Majesties Gracious Declaration and Letters to the Parliament have not onely prevented but granted our chiefest desires and we owe you our most sincere and humble acknowledgment as much for the manner of giving as for the gift in this we are safe in that we are happy Your Majesty desires nothing more then to act your clemency and we desire nothing more then not to appear unworthy of it God hath preserved you abroad in your person and which we know is dearer to you in your Religion signal evidences whereof we have already received for no other Tree could produce such fruit All your subjects virtually are in Parliament and by Parliament you do graciously promise to be advised your Majesty could not grant more nor your People ask more And to manifest you will Rule by Example as well as Precept you decline being your own Judge in your deepest ●oncernments Your Royal Fathers Murtherers could not 〈◊〉 a greater favour nor your Parliament a greater trust neither could your Majesty more sensibly and graciously let the body of your people know you esteemed them innocent of that sin then by leaving it to them to punish You do not onely observe your Laws your self but you freely pardon all your subjects that have broken them To be just is what all Kings ought to be but to be merciful is what 〈◊〉 King is the best of our former Princes appeared worthy of the Crown but after they wore it your Majesty has done so before the providence of God having taught you to raign over your self before you raigned over your Kingdoms out of which you were put by violence but you are restored by consent by which through mercy we now live to see more then hopes of that which we have so long thirsted after an happy and full agreement between King and people towards the ataining whereof we can truly say neither our prayers nor our indeavours in our

respective stations have been wanting nor through the goodness of God shall they cease till what is so happily begun be compleated Your Majesty should have earlier received this Tribute of our Loyalty and affection but that we stayed till this time to assure you which now we presume to do that generally the Officers and Souldiers in this your Army have not onely joyfully proclaimed your Majesties Royal undoubted right to your three Kingdoms but with their hands have subscribed the same and we are confident if your service require it would do the like with their bloods against all opposets We have nothing can Apologize for the confidence of this duty but that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak which in all humility we hope will obtain both your Majesties belief and your pardon for Your Majesties most humble and most faithful Subjects and Ser●●●ts Signed by the Lord Bro●hil Sir Charles C●ot and all the Officers in and near Dublin Thus you see how the Souldiery are inclin●d to His Majesti●s service Nor is there any doubt to be made of the general consent of the whole Kingdom of Ireland who have expressed so much loy●lty to His M●jesty and towards whom His Majesty hath shown so much c●●e and tend 〈◊〉 ●n declaring the Right honble. L. Roberts to be His Deputy the● which the Commissioners of that Nation look upon not only as the highest point of p●udence in His Majesty but as an especial Act of Grace and Favour to that Kingdom he being a person so fi●ly qualified both for his Wisdom and Integrity for the management of so grand an Affair On Thursday the 26. instant the poor and small Inland Corporation of Eye in the County of Suffolk did by the hands of Thomas Dey and Franc● Cheney G●nt M●mbers of that said Corporation who with Sir George Revo Knight and Charls cornwallis Esquires Members of Parliament for that plac● were conducted to His Maj●sty by Sir Frederick Cornwallis Knight and Baronet Treasurer of His Majesties houshold present His Majesty with one hundred pounds in Gold Though this s●em in it self but smal● yet if we look upon the place we may justly judge their Loyalty to be great and if we consider the sum with the abilities of the Inhabitants littl● if at all inferiour to the largest Presents His Majesty was graciously pleased to accept it gave them thanks and assured them of his favour to their Corporation the day the Lord Edward Montague who commanded the Fleet when they received His Majesty and His two Royal Brothers being for this and other eminent services created by His Majesty Earl of Sandwich Viscount Hinchinbrook and Lord B●ron of St. Needs took his place in the House of Peers To these we sha●l add some other Ti●les of Honour and Offices which His Majesty hath likewise conferred on this honourable Person and then we must tell y●u that besides his Command at Sea under his Highness he Duke or York L●rd High Admiral that he is K●ight of the most Noble Order of the Gar●er M●ster of His Majesties great W●rdrobe one of the Commissioners of His Majesties Treasury and one of His Majesties most honourable Privie Council Here give us leave to acquaint you That his Majesty was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood on William Tredenham a M●mber of Parliament for St. Mawes in Cornwel as likewise to grant the favour of his hand to Major Iohn Blackmore who was introduced to his Majesty by his Excellency On Fryday his Majesty was pleased to go to the House of Peers and to make a gracious Speech for the speedy passing of the Bill of Indempnity and Oblivion wherein his Majesty acquainted them how at his first coming to them he did both by Himself and the Chancellor recommend to them and the House of Commons the speedy dispatch of that Act how since by a particular Message he p●essed the House of Commons to hasten that work and did by Proclamation publish to the whole Kingdom with what impatience he expected that Act should be presented to him for his Assent as the most reasonable and solid foundation of Peace and security how he thought the House of Commons too long about it and therefore would not have them guilty of the same dela● thanking God that he had the same Inten●●ons and Resolutions which he had at Breda and then reading what he then said viz. And to the end that the F●ar of punishment may not engage any Conscious to themselves of what is passed to a perseverance in Guilt for the future by opposing the Quiet and Happiness of their Country in the Restauration both of King Peers and People to their ●ast Ancient and Fundamental Rights We do by these Presents Declare That We do grant a Free and General Pardon which We are ready upon demand to p●ss under Our Great Seal of England to all Our Subjects of w●at degree or quality soever who within forty days after the publishing hereof shall lay hold upon th●● Our Grace and Favour and shall by any Publique Act declare their doing so And that they return to the Loyalty and Obedience of good Subjects exc●pting only such p●rsons as shall hereafter be excepted by Parliament Those onely ex●●pted let all Our loving Subjects how faulty soever rely upon the Word of a King Solemnly given by this present Declaration That no Crime whatsoever committed against Us or Our Royal Father before the Publication of this shall ever rise in judgement or be brought in Question against any of them to the l●ast endammagement of them either in their ●ives Liberties or Estates or as far forth as lies in Our Power so much as to the Prejudice of their Reputations by any Repr●ach or term of Distinction from the rest of Our best Subjects We d●siring and Ordaining that henceforward all Notes of Discord S●paration and Difference of Parties be utterly Abolished among all Our Subj●cts whom We invite and Conjure to a perfect Union among themselves under Our Prot●ction for the Resettlement ●f Our Just Rights and theirs in a Free Parliament By which upon the Word of a King We will be advised His Majesty then added That if they did not then joyn with him in extinguishing the ●ear which keeps the hearts of men awake and apprehensive of safety and security they would keep him from performing his Promise His Majesty thank'd them for their justice to those that had been the imm●diate Murtherers of his Father and assured them he never thought excepting any other Many other Arguments his Majesty was graciously pleased to make use of desiring and co●juring them again and again that laying al● particular Animosities aside they would pass that Act without any other exceptions then of those who were immediately guilty of the Murther of his Father On Saturday the 28. The truly Honourable and perfect Pattern of Loyalty Marquis of Ormond being created and summoned by Writ from his Majesty as Earl of