1. All such as practice and entertain intelligence with the Enemy by any
manner of means or sleights, and have any communication with them, without
direction from the Lord General, shall be punished as Traytors ans Rebels.
2. No man shall relieve the Enemy with Mony, Victuals, Ammunition;
neither harbor or receive any such, upon pain of Death.
After the Sentence of Major General Laugborn and Col. Powel, on Thursday,
Mrs Anne Laughorn, wife to Major General Laugborn, Presented a Petition to
the Court Martial, imploring their Mercy to her Husband, land that this one
unadvised Act of his might not cause all his former eminent services to be forgotten;
She urged the sad loss Her self, and Children, and two Sisters, would
have of him, and that they would all sutter in his Death. It is supposed, that
upon these and other considerations, that he was the last that engaged in this
unfortunate Action; that (if any) he will be spared, And doubtlesse his Excellency
(who is so famous for Acts of Clemency and Civility) will in judgment
think of Mercy, and spare his Life, who once gave Life to the dying
cause of the Parliament, when their Friends were almost extirpated out of
South-Wales.
Friday, 13 April.
Powel, Poyer, and Laugborn are all three sentenced at the Councel
of War, but the time they shall suffer not yet prefixed. Bowhen
has been before them also, but no Conclusion with him.
The business so much samed concerning Colonel Jones marching into
the field 60 miles from Dublin, so only grounded on a report from
a ship that came that way, expect they will make his sending
forth a party of Horse of 500 or 60 to be so considerable, which he
usually doth (rather to offend the Enemy, and keep his men in action)
as being in no capacity to overcome, or fight them, without the supplies
he waits for from hence come to him.
The Parliament were upon some particulars about the Admiralty,
but concluded nothing. There is speech Concerning a Ginny ship of
great value come in with Bullion; Also a report of a fight as Sea,
which speaks the Parliament Victors: And News of a designe in
wiltshire, and some other Western Counties, against the Parliament;
but no certainty of particulars as yet come.
Imprimatur, G. M.
LONDON, Printed by J: M.