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A BRIEFE RELATION
of some affaires and transactions,
Civill and Military, both Forraigne
and Domestique.
Licensed by Gualter Frost Esquire, Secretary to the Councell
of state, according to the direction of the late Act.
From Tuesday. December the 18. to Tuesday
December the 25. 1649.
From Holland 15. December 1649.
THe States of Holland goe on to disband 105 companyes
of Foote, and 35 Troopes and Horse,
notwithstanding that the Duke of Lorrain is upon
their borders with his Forces; who, men
say here, hath taken forty Wagons going into
Maestrecht, they will beat him away if he goes
not of himself; most men who observe affaires do
believe, that his now comming upon these borders
is by the practise of some who would hinder the disbanding of those
Forces, but the Hollanders are fully awake, and sufficiently know whither
those designes tend; the Prince of Orange takes his journey towards
Gelderland to morrow.
Upon the complaint of the Resident of the Common-wealth of England
to the States of Holland, against Salmatius, for a Books by him published,
intituled defensio Regia, The Said States sent for the Fiscall into
their Assembly, and gave him Charge, by the mouth of the President of
their Assembly, the Lord caltz, who is also the Keeper of their great seale,