A long and tedious Conference hath beene had betwixt the Councell
of State, and the Commissioners of Excise, and Merchant Adventures
of London, for the Speedy loane of the hundred and fifty thousand
pounds, which was so faithfully promised to bee sent after Cromwell,
end for which (as they alleadged) hee only staieth at Brisell, and cannot
Imbarque till hee have it; having ingaged his honour (and that's
a great matter) to satisfie the demands of the Soldier before they set foot
a Ship-board. But the securitie (being only Deanes and Chapters lands,
or the Excise; upon which their lyeth already so many ingagements) was
excepted against : so that as yet they are at no certainty, how to raise
so much money's, unlesse out of their owne Coffers; and that were a
gune against Nature.
Yet me thinks the City are very ingratefull to stand thus trucking
and buzzing on such punctillio's, seeing the State so noble and generously
disposed towards them, who by a dainty sucking knack, have of
their owne accords confirmed the donation of Richmond-Parke to the
Londoners, and the generations after them, in token of their thankfullnesse,
for the Blood and Treasure they have spent, to make themselves
Asses, and to Ruine their Native Countrey, now groaning under the
Miseries brought upon it by meanes of these Degenarate Tyrants and
Oppressers, whom till now they have maintaned in their Rebellion and
Treason.
But they are not halfe so Charitable to the Poore Prisoners for Debt;
who although their Petition, and the knack promised for their Releasement
hath lyen above six Moneths under their Pious consideration; yet
is it still put of from day to day, Committed and Re-Committed; but
hitherto no effectuall Reliese for those poore Soules: And yet the
Supremists would have us looke upon this deede of thens, as one so
full of Suparlative Grace and Favour; as if (of it selfe alone) it were
enough to expiate all their former Impieties.
By Letters from yorke, to severall hands it is assured: That Alderman
Hoyle a Member of the house, hath Cut his owne Throat; which
without, doubt proceeded from the inwar l distemper of his Soule
occasioned by the Murther of the King, wherein hee was none of the
leaft concern'd. For from the very first beginning of these troubles hee
hath beene exceeding violent against the Person and Cause of the King;
and had a great stroke in Promoting the Petitions set a foote in the
North for bringing the King to Tryull. Besides I am well informed of
a former Barbarous Act Committed upon the Person of a Poore Mins
strell in Yorke one young. Who because hee was found playing to some
Company upon a Sunday after Prayers; hee caused him to bee shut up