come along with the Grandees in hope to purchase a fortune by squeezing the publick Let the whole Nation also consider that if young Tarquin come in by Conquest he will be as absolute as was William the Conquerour and we all must be in the same slavish condition as our forefathers were under this Norman Bastard by having our Birthrights trampled under foot our Parliaments Laws Liberties and Priviledges resolved all into the the will of an arbitrary Tyrant and his Scottish Privy Council 'T is reported their King meaning our most gracious Lord and Soveraign blames Major Astnerst for bringing him to Lancashire since he finds no more accesse of forces I do not hear that any considerable person doth openly own him since his march into England wherefore we doubt not but God hath ordered his coming hither for the more speedy ruine of him and his Adherents What a happinesse it is to live to see this day wherein we have experience of the noble temper of our Nation that though many of them be divided in matter of particular Interest and Opinion yet they so well understand the General Interest of England that they scorn to embarque themselves in such courses as must of necessity either debase us under the miserable yoak of a Scottish Tyranny or vassalize us under the will of an everlasting Tyrant for had God given over the people to run a madding after the Royal Puppet we could have expected no other consequents but endlesse Taxes and inevitable slavery But the world is grown wiser now then to throw away their Lives and Estates for a Trifle call'd a King an Officer that we have little cause to be in love with if we take a view of them all since the Conquest As it was said of old concerning Israel that God gave them a King in his wrath So we may say of our own Nation if we view all the practises of our Kings that they seem to have been given by God as the Scourges and Rods of his anger rather then Tokens of favour unto the people and this in our last meaning his 64 Number was in part made evident by giving you a Character of each King since the Conquest to the end of Edward the second therefore now in the next place give me leave to trace them downward to the present Age drawing them in their Pourtraictures after the Copy of our English Chronicles and then let every different man judge how little reason we have to be in love with Kings and how much the whole Nation are obliged unto the Parliament for blotting out so pernicious and tyrannical a Session Then after the enumeration of the rest till Queen Elizabeth and so to King Iames the Scot brought in as he saith with and for a plague to the Nation the whole design of whose Reign was to undermine the Liberties of England who layd the main Plot of Tyranny and then being sent as his son Henry down into another world he left his son Charles to execute it Charles being in the Saddle took a course to ride the Nation quite off its Legs all his Reign was to enslave and embroile the People and to enhance the Prerogative for which he died a Martyr being executed a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publick Enemy to the Nation As for the Title of the present young Pretender meaning his most gracious Majesty remember from whence he had it and how it is now tainted had it been just yet the Treason of the Father hath cut off the Son who hath lived already to embroile Scotland and now takes the same course in England His Interest is revenge against the very Nation for the effecting whereof he hath harassed the Land with a desperate crew of Barbarians Consider what misery we have had by Kings in times past and how they may be multiplied in time to come Tyranny hath been the practise and design you see of the whole race but admit this young Boutefeu and he will soon bring it to perfection then farewell to Parliaments Laws Liberties and Estates which will be little enough for the haughty Scot whose hopes and aims are all levelled at these and his quarrel at the very name and Nation of the English If after so many eminent discoveries of the will and purpose of God touching the establishment of this Commonwealth any man shall be such a Sot as to continue a Malignant let him remember how God useth to dispose of his incorrigible and implacable enemies But I perceive one main impediment that keeps men from quitting their old corrupt principles is the fear of being counted a Turn-coat yet know that if God once declare as it were from heaven against thy wayes thy Principles or thy Party then it is no dishonour but ingenuity and thy duty to turn for he hath said in this case If a man do not turn he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready he hath prepared for him the instruments of death and destruction Let the old Malignants and Cavaliers consider that in what shape they have appeared with what pretences soever they have clothed their Conferences yet God hath found them out and confounded them Let the new Malignants of the Presbyterian opinion consider how often and notoriously God hath check't them and cursed their unrighteous combination with the old Malignants Let both old and new consider what an inseparable course is annexed as I have often told you to the Family and Interest of the Tarquins that it proves ruine and destruction to all that own it Let England her self and all the Nations about consider what God hath done for England and how in this auspicious time of Triall he gave in the hearts of the people to live and dye for the present Government Lastly let all Parties consider it is high time to lay aside animosities and unite again upon the common interest of our Nation and there is no doubt but the Parliament will consider that as God hath his design of glory in all these things so it should be their design to improve them all to that end and for the ease and benefit of so willing and obedient a people If ever there were a season of observation or rather admiration certainly it is the present wherein we have been eye-witnesses of so many outgoings of God's presence among us and the many miraculous turns of providence within a short Revolution Some memorable hints of those things you had in our last meaning his Relation of the fight at Worcester But now observe farther and in the first place from whence came the rise of all our distractions of which we may truly say according to the old Proverb used by our Fathers In nomine Domini incipit omne malum all our evills have been derived from the corruption of the Clergy and such of the Laity as have been wedded to their Faction The first
War may be truly called Bellum Episcopale the Bishops War as being made for the upholding the second correlated Interests of Prerogative and Prelacy The two last Wars may as well be called Bellum Presbyteriale being raised by the ranting Presbyters for erecting of a new Tyranny upon the ruine of the old one by labouring to make one Compound of two Incompossibles viz. Presbytery and Monarchy Thus you see how when one part of the Clergy prove Bankrupt the other fell to traffick for the old ambitious Interest in a new form upon a new stock of Reputation wherein it is very observeable how they have thrived accordingly by joyning issue and Interest with the old Malignant Traytors of Regality The end then of this observation is to shew that it concerns the peace of every Commnowealth to see that the Civil Interest be secured out of the reach of any Clerical Encroachments or Pretences The next observable that falls in of courle is how mightily the Lord hath prospered the Commonwealth in a short time since it began to execute Justice upon our modern Traytors of the Clergy for that blood which hath been shed through their designs and instigation yet notwithstanding their confidence is more observeable than all seeing when they suffer for manifest Treasons they dubbe themselves with the Title of Confessours and Martyrs Thus the late Charles died a Martyr for Tyranny and Treason thus Mr. Love followed him proclaiming himself a Martyr when under his own hand and with his own mouth he had confessed himself guilty of the Treasons charged upon him and it appears unto all the impartiall part of the World that he died a Martyr for the old Tyrannick Interest which he had so oft cried down as it is now setled in the person of the young Pretender though cloaked with a pretence of the Covenant The English Church meaning at Amsterdam together with their day of Thanks giving joyned their humiliation and supplication for the good successe of the King of Scots But I hope their crying to God was like those Baal's Priests whom Elias mocked Certain it is these Baal's Priests are extremely lifted up with hopes that their Idol Episcopacy shall be set up again as soon as their King for whom they pray so fervently shall be setled in his Throne The day following that is the 1â— of September many thousands of tatter'd Scots that had been taken prisoners at Worcester were conducted through the City to shew the Cavaliers a true Copy of their Kings Countenance in his gallant design to overrun the Nation at once with Barbarism and Tyranny The King of Scots the Duke of York that would be the Duke of Beaufort and Madamoselle d'Orleance in his Intelligence from Paris are much given to Hunting Dancing Balls and Masking The pretended King meaning our most gracious Soveraign is much in discourse about the miracle of his escape and his Episcoparians doe much enlarge upon it in their Sermons hinting out to the World as if God did thereby declare his will to restore him He much magnifies the fidelity of the English Papists to him above all other friends and as much vilifies the Scots whom he seems resolv'd never more to trouble It seems too that the Covenant lay very foul upon his stomach having voyded it and lickt up the old vomit of the English Common-Prayer-Book which is now become again the Rosary of his Devotions his Chappel being crowded with Copes Surplices and Bishops that would be The great kindnesses the frequent visits and revels that passe between him and Madamoselle d'Orleans minister to all men large occasion of discourse as if there were an intent of marriage that way and that thereupon his quarrel would be owned by that valiant man the Duke her Father who is able to doe wonders if we may credit Town-talke or could they but believe quarrelling with each other But the wiser sort say that this often sporting of Madamoiselle with him is onely to make a sport of him he being now of late become a great pretender to Wit and jesting among the Ladies a thing wherein things of his Leaden complexion are seldome happy What more of thy scurrilous language still profane Rebel but 't is no matter thy tongue is no slander because 't is nothing else but slander We hear how the fugitive King of Scots hath resumed his Masse-Book of Common-Prayer again at which the King-doting Scots are much offended and cry shame upon him Are these the fruits of his sitting in the Stool of Repentance of his taking the Covenant have the silly Scots ventured their Lives and Estates for such an Hypocrite It appears well that he observed his good Mothers counsell to doe any thing till he had gotten strength and power and then do afterward as he list How finely had the Presbyterians been served if their designgs had taken effect to enthrone such a dissembler for the enslaving of themselves This was remarkable in the late Tyrant Charles falsly accusing Princes of perjury and violation of promises whose inconstancy in this kind was beyond compare who no sooner had past any promises made vowes and protestations and first appeals in the High Court of Heaven in the behalf of himself and his Family but presently he forfeited all and cancel'd them by his actions How closely his Son also hath troden the Fathers steps appears by the last Game with the Presbyters in Scotland where he plaid fast and loose with the Covenant and the Stool of Repentance Believe it all your other enemies are tame Beasts to the high Presbyter and yet with the winding and turning of a religious pretence and artificial zeal against Heresie he will like a tame Snake if not warily avoided get into your bosome As the Scottish Presbyter and the Cavalier look several wayes but are tied together by the tayle with a point of Stewarts Interest We have a very notable instance also in our own Nation which may serve for a just example to all the world in point of behaviour for if we reflect upon these 30 yeares past we shall find how cautious the Parliaments and People of England have been before they proceeded to Armes the utmost and most desperate Remedy If we run over the Catalogue of the late Tyrants defaults in Government we find extraordinary patience in the people notwithstanding his extraordinary incroachments from time to time It were needlesse to reckon up the several Monopolies Impositions and other Oppressions of the people both in Soul and Body which were made publick and known to all the world together with that highest of all practises not onely in dissolving Parliament abruptly but professedly designing the ruine of Parliaments in depriving the People of their due Succession Though all these Tyrannies of his were sufficiently felt and known yet such was the wisdome and caution of our Nation from time to time and particularly of this
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
pickle art thou in Alass poor Tarquin whither wilt thou go The State was put to far greater trouble and expences upon the hanging of Montrosse then some were pleased to bestow upon Tarquin's great Grandfather when they truss't him up upon a Pear Tree Young Tarquin intends to mount the Royal Galloway to run a race with the Scotch Hierarchy and out run Montross's and his Father's destiny and this if he do he may do well to call upon his Brother Iames at the I le of Iersey that they may learn to trayle a Pike and Rant away a Pension for the maintenance of the French In every line you will find We and Vs as if he had a Litter of Pigs besides Popes in his belly He confesseth the sins of his Fathers House a foul House indeed if he had reckoned up his Mothers House too The Thing called King The Scots King hath been in the Penitential Chair he hath acknowledged his Fathers sin and his own wickednesse and his Mothers Idolatry The Scots King is wholly passive led up and down by the Nose at their pleasure Charles Tarquin being already a Catholick swore he would turn Turk too but he would be revenged upon the English Iames Tarquin is to be a Cardinal and Rupert Tarquin is as good as the best in the Bunch having been a Thief in two Elements and a Runnagate in divers Countries all which being considered by our Brethren of London and others they have little considence in a Cause that admits of a combination with that wretched Family It is very possible young Tarquin may lick up again the late vomit of the sins of his Family Attempts have been made to make a purse to buy Gunpowder and Milk for the Baby of Scotland The young Proselite Their young King is in a Consumption I believe both of Purse and Reputation they say he spits blood but not so fast I suppose as he and his Father spilt it his Doctors tell him he cannot live three moneths and yet I fear he will out live both his Religion and Reputation We had Leisure to take notice of young Tarquins Declaration He will believe all these Evils to have occasioned through the blood spilt by his Father and himself the Idolatry of his Mother and the sins of his Fathers House that all his own miscarriages are excuseable by reason of his Education Age evil Council and Company Out of a desire to recover the Crown for which I will not give him a halfpenny he is content to passe an Act of Oblivion for all but such who had the courage to do justice upon his Father whom he himself hath acknowledged to be guilty of all the blood in the three Nations The rest concludes with an exhortation to Rebellion Given at our Court at Dumfermlin Aug. 16. 1650. Young Tarquin hath shewn the Kirk a fair pair of Heels Iames Tarquin is gone to Brussells and required of Iermin an account of 600 Pistols lent him by the Duke of Orleance for his Journey but Iermin had played away 60 of them A Crown he may have but not of Gold for some Princes have been Crowned with Brown Paper and some with Ivy. Iames Tarquin whom they call Duke of York the Lad c. His Father was justly put to death for his Acts of Tyranny The King of Scots having received his Crown design'd the Parliament to appoint a fast for his sins I saw the Duke of York accompanied with bad Tutors being part of the Fates of that Family The nominal Duke of York intends speedily for France being constrained thereunto against his will because upon Iermins perswasions to the Princesse his Sister that she would not countenance him in his disobedience to his Mother he is like to receive no farther supplies from her There will not â—ide with the Royall Party any persons of note that have but morall honesty in them The new Tyrant will be as absolute as was William the Conquerour Young Pharaoh's Chariot wheels drive not with that fury as was expected The young Pretender The onely way to be rid of Taxes and make the Nation happy is utterly to desert the common Enemy and cast off the Tyrannick Family with all the Curses that attend it The Scots have an Ishbosheth amongst them Heir of a Family of the very same complexion and condition against whom destruction hath been written in broad Characters by the special hand of Providence that no Party whatsoever that joyns with it doth prosper They have an Achan and an Isbosheth amongst them Tarquin the Second The Abominable Interest Malignants Cavaliers Papists yea and Irish Rebels are upon the Account of their Charles the Second When a Nation hath cast off the yoke of Tyranny or Kingship and newly obtained their Liberty it must look to have all those for Enemies that were Familiars and Retainers to the Tyrant The Scotch King came with his Covenant-Pretences and acted the mockery of Repentance with much Hypocritical Solemnity Though the Presbyterians laid not the Tyrant down upon the block yet they brought him to the Scaffold The Scots deprived him K. Charles the First of his Earthly Crown as he deserved The young Raven hath rookt the Kirk The Scots have taken a Snake into their bosome He was born to the old Corrupt Interest He suckt it in with his milk was nurst up with bloud and malignancy and had a share so far as he was capable in all the sins of his Family The Tyrant being beheaded The young Gentleman by his guardian the Scot is very active They will see what Tarquin can do for himself The cunning sleights and devices of the Scottish King That Heroick and most noble Act of Justice in Judging and Executing the late King The Scots pronounced and printed the late King a man of bloud one that had shed more bloud in his time than had been shed in the ten Christian persecutions Mary Iames his Mother massacred her own Husband by Poyson Gunpowder and Halter for the Love that Shee bare to a Fidler and another of her Adulterers by name Bothwell The wicked wayes of his Father the idolatry of his Mother and the bloud-guiltinesse of his Father's House Woe to that Bloudy House A Bloudy Generation He hath approved himself Heir apparent of that bloud and vengeance which belongs to his Father's house As for the Title of young Tarquin who now would fain be accounted Heir The Treason of the Father hath cut off the Son What a governour he is like to be who took in his Father's Principles with his Mother's Milk Who hath been bred up under the
designed to passe over towards Edenburgh to make a little noise for upholding his and the Spaniards Reputation The party of Charles Stuart in these parts do hug themselves to think what a game they shall have of it if Hans knock his Pitchers together Yesterday his Majesty the Queen and the King's Brother with the Cardinal were feasted by the little Queen at the Palace Royal where met also the Titular Duke of York It is said that at Vienna and other parts they talk high of chusing Charles Stuart King of Hungaria in the mean time he comes not at that Court they suppose they bought him off at 200000 Rix-Dollars they promised him of which he hath gotten a good part Some say he and his Junto are at their wits end at the Spaw since they heard of Middleton's defeat I am sure they were at that long since or they would never have run such desperate courses The Princesse Royal and her son and her brother Charles are gone to Colen but they have their busie-bodies and Agents here behind them to doe what mischief they can in stirring up dissention among those that are honest and mean well towards their Countrey wherein I doubt not but they will misse of their aim The ninth of this month he whom they call the King of Great Britain arrived here On the 28. instant our Magistrates bestowed a sumptuous collation upon him whom they call the King of Great Britain and the Princesse Royal of Orange his Sister The Duke of Glocester hath a pension conferred on him by the Jesuites Colledge in this Town in the street of St. Iames's where he is lodged and hath three of them to be his Tutors who are English by Nation Charles Stuart is still at Colen where he intends to blow his fingers this cold winter The Marquesse of Ormond is still in this City some say he is come to fetch away the titular Duke of Glocester who is said to be turned Catholick through the perswasion of his friends and promise of a Cardinals Cap. Charles Stuart is still at Colen expecting the assistance of his friends in those parts for his subsistence The Marquesse of Ormond hath taken the Duke of Glocester out of the Iesuites Colledge and that as 't is said by order of his Brother Charles pretending that he will not suffer his Brother to be of the Queen his Mothers Religion The Duke of Glocester since he was taken out of the Iesuites Colledge is gone towards Colen to his Brother Charles without taking any leave of the Queen his Mother to whom Charles wrote a Letter desiring her to excuse the taking away his Brother in that manner but she threw the Letter into the fire Charles Stewart is still in his old station at Colen The Duke of Glocester went out of Town yesterday with the Marquesse of Ormond to goe towards his Brother Charles at Colen Before he went the Queen his Mother sent to him the Marshal de Praslin to perswade him that he would only go and take a dinner in the Iesuites Colledge to signify his obedience to her And when this would not do Wat Mountague the Abbot of Nuntuel was sent to him but all failed The Duke's Answer was that though she were his Mother yet he must obey his Brother and besides that he could not have to do with the Iesuites in the least without wronging his conscience Which his Mother understanding order was given to turn him out of doores at ten a clock at night so that he went away hence without so much as being admitted to take leave of her Charles Stuart lyeth still here at his old quarters at Colen Not a word of their King save only that male-contented Kirkman remembers him now and then as they have great reason considering how he slurr'd them and their party when he was among them Further discoveries are still making of unchristian designes laid to involve the Nation in blood again upon the score of Charles Stuart but God hath disappointed them Charles Stuart is frozen up at Colen no news yet of his removal Charles Stuart is still in his Quarters at Colen The waters are now open and passage free for him to retreat at pleasure The Prince of Orange is with his mother at Teyling The name of him and his family is not now much talked on among the people and will in time be forgotten They are as mute as fishes We are here full of expectation to know what is become of Charles Stuart who is gone privately from Colen with two or three at the most of his attendants Many conjectures are made about his stealing away from thence at this conjuncture of time when your Countrey is said to be generally discontented and Commissions ready to enter in at your gates Some will have him to be landed at Hull which place is said to be revolted and to have declared against the Lord Protector Others say he is gone for Holland but none know certainly where he hath hid himself Some further light was given touching the dangerous Conspiracies in divers parts on the behalf of Charles Stuart and that fatal interest of his which hath sunk so many The late Queen of England went to the Louvre to visit the Queen thereupon it was presently raised about that the occasion of her going was to communicate a Letter which she had received from her son Charles relating how that on the 5. instant he arrived at Hull a strong Town and Sea-port of England having none in company with him but the Marquesse of Ormond Col. Blague and his Barber and a Groom Here are Letters come hither from the Hague which say that Charles went from Colen the 24 last past about 5 in the morning with the Marquess of Ormond Col. Blague his Barber a Groom intending to imbarque himself at Embden for England divers Sea-Ports and Inland Towns having declared for him We are still in expectation to hear what successe Charles Stuart has had in England whether he is held to be certainly gone to head the Risings and Designs that are on Foot there for the bringing him in again The last Letters that are come from England have much calmed the reports that were here invented by the Royalists of the Risings and Commotions there that Hull and Newcastle were revolted but now we hear the contrary and their fabulous stories are but laughed at yet we have no certainty to what place Charles Stuart is gone the newes thereof is as diverse as uncertain Some will have him in England others that he is gone towards Hamburgh and some will have him to be still in these parts which is the most likely of any for the present state of affairs of England is not so bad and declining as was reported