is thought His Majesty will not adventure His person thither
till the Spring of the yeer, and then He intends to take Ireland
in His way, if that His Successe answer His Desires
there.
They are now very busie in Levying Money for Sir Thomas
all England over: if people are not able to pay, their Souldiers
drive away their Cattel or take away their Houshold-Goods,
and fell them before their faces: In Westminster their
Souldiers [if the parties be not at home] put Gun-powder in
the Locks of their Doors and blow them open, as lately they
did to the Lady Haroy and others in Westminster Ransack'd
and took away the best of their Goods; and this is their New
Liberty all England over: If king Charls had done so, I know
what it had been: but these may Commit any Burglary, Robbery,
may Murder, and it passes for very good Service for the
State, and the people must not so much as speak against any
such outrages, without being taken for Traytors and ill-affected
to the Parliament and Common-wealth, and then our Persons
and Goods become subject to the Law of their Swords
and Tyramical Arbitrary Wills, now become the Supreame
Law of England.
Ha, ha, ha; What is become of our Weekly Legends of Lies?
all quash'd on the sudden; lost in a mist: put by their parliament
druggery! These are in His Majesties Name, to make
dilligent search after the Persons of these Authors following;
and carefully to apprehend their Bodies, and keep them in
safe Custody [feeding them with a bit and a knock] till His
Majesty Regains His Right;at which time they are to be rewarded
with each three phillips on the Nose, and a lusty Whipping
(only that grand Imposture Walter)and for him it is
Ordered by the Man in the Moons Dogge, That he do his Penance
at Tyburn with a clean Halter about his neck, and a
swing of his body, according to his deserts.
The first is a tall thin-fac'd fellow, with a Hawks-nose, a
meagre Countenance long runnagate-Leggs, constance in nothing
but Wenching, Lying, and Drinking; he is used to be
met with in the Old Bayly in a Munday morning. In [unr]
of Cap-paper, written upon his breast Perfect Di[unr]