An Act is hammering out for punishing Revolted Seamen;
will they make Gally-Slaves of Seamen, and force them to serve
them whether they will or no? In faith Nose, you are deceived in
them, they care not? figg for your Troopes of Horse; if you
hang one, farewel all; they can cary their Houses and Goods
along with them, and so cannot you the Houses and Lands
you have robb'd God and the King of; they can return to their
Allegiance, and you have waded so deep in Rebellion, that you must
forward,
Till in a fatall Whirle-pit you sink down,
And so get Hall, in catching at a Crown,
Sir William Fleming is arrived at Edenburgh with a Final Answer
from His Majesty, wherein was expressed such joy, that there
was ringing of Bells and Bonfires, and crying in the streets of
Edenburgh, Vile le Roy, Vive le Roy; Long live King Charles the
Second; by which you may guess the rest: Briefly thus, which
His Majestiy hath promised them in the Word of a King:
THat he will imploy all his endeavours for the propagation of the
true Protestant Religions, Liberty and Freedom of that Kingdom:
And that by Gods power he will suddenly approach England with an
Army, to bring all Capital Traytors to deserved punishments, according
to the known Laws of the Land, and grant an Act of Oblivion to
the rest; that once being settled in his Right, He will Establish that
Religion prosessed in Queen Elizabeths, His Grand fathers King
Jamses, and the beginning of his Fathers Reign; that he will lessen
his Retinue, to take off all Taxes, Excizes, &c. whilst be bath restored
(by Gods blessing) the Land to its lately lost happiness, the
Laws to their vigour, the Subjects Liberty, and Parliaments just Priviledge;
Moreover, He doth invoke the Prayers and Assistance of
all good people, desiring God to blesse him in his proceedings, as really
be intends the Prosperity and good of his people, and to deliver them
from this [unr] of Bondage put upon them by their fellow Subjects.
C.R.
Dull'English now, shake off this Lethergie,
Be so more Slaves to slaves, but Sons to Majestie.
The yong Lord Capel Petitioned the Juncto for Means for his
Subsistance, his Estate being seized on, contrary to their former