Upon the Petition of the Commanders and Officers, under the Militia of the City
of London, the House ordered that they shall be admitted to double upon Deans
and Chapters Lands, as others, their accounts being stated and certified by foure or
more of the Militia.
From Dublin June 24. Col. Jones sent out 12 horse, Capt. Otaway, Cap. Glinn,
and others who charges 300. Ormonds, routed them, took Lieut. Col. Walther Dungan
prisoner, Major Will. Dungan mortally wounded. And Ormond to[unr] within
hall a mile looking on. Divers Malignants are imprisoned, And all the Papists are
turned out of Town, but their wives, &c. Stay with their goods. Since which wee
killed them a Captain and a Lieut. of Horse, and took Cornet Bembrick and foure
horse. And they killed as Col. Joneses Quartermaster of his own Troop, Colonell
Munk commands 600 horse, and 50 of Col. Parsons Dragoones abroad, and is full
of action. The Souldiers and Citizens (though full of duty) are very couragious.
The Governour is definitely tired, for we cannot get him to go to bed at all and
most part of the day is viewing the enemy, or to mead out Fortifications, and
planting pecces round the Line. The Bishop of Kerry is in the I ish Camp. The
Lord Inchequeen writ to the Governour to Treat, and compose, but he hath answered
him as sharply as formerly he did Ormond: And hath declared that he will receive
no Message, nor Treaty from them. Rathfarnham which is honest Sir Adam Loftus
his house, that hath been kept up hitherto by his great charges, And Balishanon
hold out [unr]ustily.
Letters from France give to understand, That Prince Charles went from Breds
to Antwerp accompanyed by the Prince of Orange, within a League of Antwerp hee
was met by some eminent persons appointed for that purpose, who presented him
from the Archduke, with a most sumptuous Caroach studded with Massie Silver,
and fix gallant Flanders horses of great value, such as a King of bare Scotland was
never Master of before, and six Saddle Horses, probably Genit's or of the Neapolitan
race, when he was come to Antwerp the Magistrates conducted him to the highstreet,
called the Maire, and lodged him in a stately Pallace: he remained in that
Town two dayes and two nights, during which time he was welcomed with all imagirable
expressions of honour and respect, and at the Castle, which he had the honour
to be invited to, he was entertained as if the King of Spain had been there himself:
he went to see the Town and the rarities of the Churches, which as anciently, so
now, exceeds all others in those Countries, if not in Christendom; at his departure,
happy was he that could kisse his Cloke, which by accident hung out of the Coach
as he past away. From thence he went to Bruxells, with the Lord Cottington the
Lord Jermin, the Lord Piercy the Lord Hopton, the Lord Culpepper, the Lord Montrosse
and others, English and scots (and did not go back [unr] Breds as some l[unr]ed
to have it, but) from thence Prince Charles with his attendants went to Peron, and
from thence intends to take his journey to Campaigne to the French Court having
gotten free leave, and intends to stay with the French King onely one day to dine
with their Majesties, and away to his Mother to Paris [unr] to stay in France all
this Summer. The Citizens of Paris are well p ased with the raising of the [unr]ge
of Cambray but they were fear full or a new [unr]gr, which now they fear not yet they
are resolved that should the King besiege them, they will fight it out, and treat no