at two of the clock in the afternoone they intend to put to
sale at Somerset house.
This evening there hapned a great fire in the Inner Temple by
the violence whereof, the Chambers of many Lawyers, with their
writings were consumed, nothing but the Brick-Walls remaining.
From Ireland it was this day certified, That the Quarters of the
Marquis of Ormond were at Trechohan, That the Lord Inchiquine
threatens to put all to the sword who offer to submit and come in
upon the Lord Lieutenants Proclamation, It was certified that Sir
Charls Coote, and Owen Roe Oneale had so far united their forces
into one, as that they have gathered the Presbyterians harvest
in the Legan, The Inhabitants having most of them forsaken their
possessions for feare of them, and are fled into the West of Scotland
where they are promised to be relieved.
Wednesday September 19.
SEverall orders were this day passed for the reliefe of private
persons. The Earle of Salisbury sate in the House as a Member
of the House of Commons, It was ordered that he and the Earle of
Penbroke and the Lord Howard of Eastcrike should sit in all those
Committees, in which heretofore they sate before the House of
Lords was dissolved.
This day the particulars of the triall of the Mutiners at Oxford
were received, It was certified that the chiefest of those who were
brought before the Court Martiall were Master Biggs, Master Pigen,
and one Hoyden. It is advertised that they expected six or seven
thousand to rise and joyne with them out of the Counties of
Northampton, Leicester, and Derby, and five or six thousand out of
the West, and as many out of the East of England, Their designe
was to have the Laws of the Land contracted, and to be put in English:
To have another way of Administration of Justice in the respective
Counties, To take away Tithes, and the burden of Excise,
and to set up Agitators againe at the Headquarters. To call off this
Representative, and immediately to call in another, and to call some
to account to answer to what should be objected against them. They
confessed that there were divers considerable persons that had ingaged
to supply them with moneys. Amongst others whom they
thought to make their Agents, and were their chiefe Leaders to
this distemper, was one Serjeant Radman who is apprehended at
Poole, and is to answer for his fact Pigon, and Biggs, and Hoyden