officers, with such other Furniture as they are bound to
find him upon that occasion. Bur whether the King's purpose
be reall, of whether it be a device to awe the City,
which would be impoverished by his departure, is a Point I
cannot determin.
Those four Members of Parlement that were secluded
about a fortnight since, and by the King's order commanded
to retire hence to St. Germans, there to attend his farther
pleasure, did on last Friday recieve his order to part
Company and retire into 4 severall Places, farr remote from
this City, which were named in the order; but they applying
themselves to the first President by letter, and he addressing
himself to the King, and ingaging in there behalf,
that they would not hereafter displease his Majesty, the
former order was revoked, and they ariving here on wednesday
night, took their places the next morning in Parlament.
It is now rumor'd, as if the Court, were jealous of Marshall
Turein's corresponding with the Pr. of Condé, in regard
they concieve he hath not been so vigorous as he
ought to have been, in prosecuting some advantages which
they imagine he might have made against the said Prince;
and that fort his cause, there are thoughts of laying him aside,
and committing the Conduct of the Army to some other,
against their next Campania.
The Earl of Bristol, dying unexpectedly on Friday last
week, was buried the Sunday after, not at Charenton, where
all persons of that quality use to be buried, but in one of the
meaner Churchyards in the suburbs of this City. There
was little solemnity, not one Lord appearing at his Funerall,
nor any other person of quality, except his second son Mr.
John Digby and a certain Knight. His eldest, the Lord Digby,
absented himself, though he were in Town; and not only
so, but it's said, that he forbore inviting any, to save Funerall
Expences; which being talked abroad, hath much
crack't his Reputation, because he is observed lavish enough
upon other occasions.