Numb. 92.
Mercurius Politicus.
Comprising the summe of all Intelligence,
with the Affairs and Designs
now on foot in the three Nations of
England, Ireland, and Scotland.
In defence of the Common-wealth, and
for Information of the People.
------ It à vertere Seria. {Hor. de
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday, March 4. to Thursday, March 11. 1652.
COnsidering, that in times past, the
People of this Nation were bred up
and instructed in the brutish Principles
of Monarchy, by which means
they have been the more averse from
entertaining Notions of a more noble
Form; And withal remembering,
that we are now put into a better
course, upon the Declared Interest of a Free State or Common-weal,
I conceived nothing could more highly tend
to the propagation of this Interest, and the honour of its
Founders, then to manifest the Inconveniences and ill Consequences
of the other Formes, and so to root up their Principles,
that the People being now invested with the possession
of a more excellent way, may (in order to the preservation
of this Common-wealth) understand what Common-Weal
Principles are, and thereby become the more resolute to