other matters of their own, they have had Addresses made
unto them by some runagate Irish, in the behalf of their
broken Faction; whose case hath not wanted a Letter recommendatory
from Charls Stuart, unto their Lordship.
And for the promoting of their ends, the holy Conclave o
Priests and Jesuits residing in this Town, are not wither a
party and influence among the men of Power; so that it will
be a fine sleigh, if this S[unr]ate shal be brought (though under
other notions) to doe the work of the Popish and Jesuited
party. In the mean time, the Jesuits are not wanting
to their Irish friends and labour to make provision for
them, presuming they shall be able to draw in this State to
do somwhat, upon the score of finding work for the Parliament,
and diverting the Forces of England. And if Pr: Rupert
ever return into these parts, they will not want a head
like themselvs to restore the lost hopes of that wicked Rebellion:
But if stories hold true, Ruperts Highness is laid
low enough; For, here are strong Reports, that he himself,
or the best part of his ships, is cast away; which news is unwelcom
hither.
They are very vigorous in speeding out the new Fleet of
this State, and very confident of speeding or dispatching the
work with England, because the English fleet is not out in all
this time, which serves the common People for an Argument
to believe that it never will be ; especially since the spreading
of ennumerable Reports concerning the strange. Divisions
and Tumults supposed to be in England. Your Generall they
will have to take Sanctuary in the Tower for his safety, and
that Lambert commands the Soldiery, and that the Child
called D of Glocester is brought to London, to be made King,
which rings aloud in the two Courts of the Princess Royall
and the Queen of Bohemia. And to the same Tune the story
is set by Sea as well as Land, so that now all is like to be their
own in England.
And yet all this will not get in the interest of the Stuarts.
though that Party do pretend mountains of golden Advantages
thereby, for the taming of the English, all that they doe