Mercurius politicus,
Number 184,
16th-22nd December 1653
E.725[6]
Numb: 184
Mercurius Politicus.
Comprising the sum of all Intelligence,
with the Affairs and Designs
now on foot in the three Nations
OF
ENGLAND, IRELAND, & SCOTLAND;
In defence of the Commonwealth,
and for Information of the People.
------ It à vertere Seria {Horat. de
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday, Decem 16. to Thursday Decem. 22. 1653.
From Newcastle, December 3.
DIvers cavaliers and Malignants
have bin at Fairs in the North
where the being of provided of horses,
they have marched in
small Parties, two or three in
a company toward Scotland.
That notable Fellow Colonel
Wogan was at a Fair in Northumberland, and son
others with him as desperate as himself, who are
also gone to the Scotch country.
From Berwick we hear that on Wednesday last
there was a party of about 16, or 18 of the Enemies
Horse at a Town called Cherside, 4, or
5 miles off Berwick; and a Fair being there, divers