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THE
Moderate Intelligencer:
Impartially communicating Martiall
Affairs to the KINGDOM of
ENGLAND.
From Thursday, May 10. to Thursday, May 17. 1649.
IT was usually said, Let every soule be subject to the higher powers,
Is not that out of request? no man is to act but he must have
his Warrant, what ever is not so faith is sin, is not that out of
fashion? Private persons should not assume of themselves
authority to revenge, that's out of use: If the strong man armed
keepe the house, all was used to be in peace, is that true
now when a stronger comes and dispossesses of liberty, life,
and property? of old it was, let the accusers come face to
face, now take his goods, or kill him first, and judge him
after, had any of these old maximes taken place, there had not fallen out in the world
as there hath. Nor what is written from
Hague, May 6.
The States cause earnest inquisition to be made after those that killed Doctor Dorislaus,
who was at supper at the Swan or common Ordinary in this Town, who hearing
noise below, caused his men with cocked Pistols and Swords drawn to secure the chamber
door, which the other forced open, the first that appeared was in Armor, they met
the Lord Falkenstein, whose head they cut, he crying out, I am not Dorislaus, then they
looked about, thought him to be the man which wore the best cloaths, Doctor Dorislaus
attempted an escape at another door, but it was Gilders the States promise to him
that bringeth any of them, and have published it death to him that harbours any of
these murtherers.
The Prince of Wales and his Councell are forward for framing and providing an