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A86084 The English intelligencer; shewing the most remarkable passages which have hapned from Saturday the nineteenth, till Saturday the six and twentieth of this present November in these following places; namely, at Darby. Durham. New-Castle. Yorke. Oxford. London. Middlesex. Excester. Norwich. Lincolne-shire. / Faithfully collected by C. H. C. H. 1642 (1642) Wing H11; Thomason E128_19; ESTC R22943 3,920 9

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THE ENGLISH INTELLIGENCER Shewing the most Remarkable Passages which have hapned from Saturday the nineteenth till Saturday the six and twentieth of this present November in these following places NAMELY At Darby Durham New-Castle Yorke Oxford London Middlesex Excester Norwich Lincolne-shire Faithfully collected by C. H. nou 26 London Printed for Francis Wright DOCTRINA PARIT VIRTVTEM The English Intelligencer Saturday Novemb. 19. THis day from Boulfouer a House of the Earle of New-Castles came into the Towne of Derby certaine Gentlemen as Agents to the said Earle demanding the Armes which were in the Towne to be lent to their Master which the Townes-men slatly denyed them being resolved to continue in their due obedience to the order of Parliament This day also in the same Towne was a mutiny made by some Malignants who would have had the Armes delivered to the Gentlemen wherein one Frost a principall Malignant and a Papist is reported to be slaine In London there was a great rumor that they were up in Armes in Kent to defend the County against the entrance of Prince Robert but neither did the Prince advance that way further then Kingston nor did they ever put themselves into a posture of defence To day there was a Post came from Chester that brought certaine newes that the Lords Justices of Ireland Sir William Parsons and Sir Iohn Borlace had instituted a solemne Fast to be held on every Wednesday the last of each Moneth in imitation of the Fast ordained here in England by the High Court of Parliament the said Expresse declaring also the growing miseries of that unhappy Kingdome and that God had pleased to shew his mercy towards them in the midst of their miseries by granting a great and glorious victory to the Marquesse of Ormond against the Munster Rebels wherein three thousand of them were slaine and twelve hundred taken prisoners with divers Priests and Jesuites From Yarmouth it is certified that the Mary Rose a good stout Ship of theirs at Sea bound from France homeward was set upon by two Pyrats men of War with whom after a long and desperate cruell fight Mary Rose sunke one of them and layd the other aboard which was found to be when they had taken her an Argier Vessell laden with Ammunition most of her men being Irish and bound for Berehaven In the City of Coventry there hapned a sudden accident this day some popishly affected Malignants of Stratford upon Avon being at the Signe of the Bull at one Ellis Iones his house in their cups began to speake ill of the Proceedings of the Parliament Iones being an honest man and a true honourer of the Parliament told them it was uncivill in them to speake ill of their betters and that for his part he did not desire any such discourse should be in his house at which word one of them with a Damme stab'd the poore man to the heart and getting to their horses all of them escaped out of the City Sunday Novemb 20. THis day there hapned in the afternoone a shrewd dissention in the Parish Church of Saint Andrewes Holborne in London Divers over precise Zelots in the Divine Service-time pulling the Minister out of his Pue and rending off his Surplice but by the mediation and help of some good religious persons the said Fray was appeased the Minister defended from danger and those tumultuous fellowes turn'd out of the Church This day arrived near Minehead in Sommerset-shire in a little by creeke a Fisher-boat with some Cavaliers sent out of South-Wales by the Marquesse Hertford with Letters to his old confederate Sir Ralph Hopton they being in the course habit of Fishermen came to the Towne and went to a poore blinde Ale-house where they lustily carowsed and in their drinke spoke divers reproachfull words against the Parliament the Host went and informed the Constable who with a sufficient guard made stay of them they being foure in number and searching them found their Letters which testified what they were Which Letters with the said Cavaliers he caused to be safely conveyed to Taunton where the Cavaliers are in custody till further order be taken for their diposall In Yorke this day there was a mutiny in the Earle of Cumberlands Army for want of pay plundring divers mens houses of worth in the time of Divine Service which the said Earle could not or at leastwise would not punish so that he and his Cavaliers are growne very odious to the Citisens Munday Novemb. 21. THis day came forth an Order from the High Court of Parliament for restraining the misdemeanour of the souldiers prohibiting them under pain of death to forbeare plundring any Houses in or about the City of London This day an aviso from Holland testified that the Queen is instantly to take shipping thence but not as it was reported with any forces The States being carefull lest any detriment should arrive to the kingdome of England either by their permission or furtherance It was absolutely certified from Excester that that rich and good City had resolved to send up to the Parliament a very large quantity of Plate amounting to at least 20000 l. to be secured them in the publicke faith for the defence of the subject In Norfolke divers Malignants as it is informed striv'd to seduce the Country people Gentlemen and others to raise moneyes for the support as they pretended of the King and Protestant Religion but their endeavours by the wisedome and care of some well affected persons of quality was frustrated and they laid hold of are at Norwich in safe custody Divers of the Essex men that came up to attend his Excellence the Earle of Warwicke out of that County this day with many thanks for their forwardnesse had licence to depart home for the security of that Country lest any danger should arise there through the absence of the said Forces Tuesday November 22. HIs Majesty this day arriv'd at Oxfard wheras 't is credibly believed he intends to reside all this Winter at that noble and famous University the fountaine of learning and piety being converted into a receptacle for those mischievous Cavaliers who lye at racke and manger at the ablest Citizens houses without paying a penny either for meate drinke or lodging This day the Earle of Cumberland with some thousand men made a sally upon Master Hothams trenches but he was bravely repulst with the losse of 200 of his men our souldiers pursuing them to the very gates and entred with them had not they within dischargeh their Ordnance which lighted more on their owne then on our souldiers It is a lamentable estate that flourishing City is reduc'd into Wheat being already at a mark a bushell and the poore people ready to starve so that if the Earle of Newcastle relieve it not who hath been long looked for there but dares not come it must be surrendred within a week at most This day my Lord of Newcastle with a considerable strength of horse and foot