From Mylor, in Cornwal, Feb. 6.
Last week we had three Frigats here, the Falmouth-Frigat
which brought a prize into Lea; the Warwick, which
brought another into Foy; and the Portsmouth-Frigat,
which (as I hear) fought 4 French Merchant-men, two of
24 guns apeece, a third of 16. and the fourth of 14 guns.
She suffered much from the two great ones, but at length,
they stood away, and left the other two to her, which now
are in Plymouth. We have had here several ships from Alicant,
Malaga, and the Canaries, which came in without
any Convoy.
From Paris February 18 stilo novo.
The Duke of Longueville, though lately lifted at, is by
the King's, good grace, gone back to his Government of
Normandy, having first taken his leave of his Majesty, the
Queen, Duke d' Aniou, and the Cardinal, who for honors
sake, and to lay a farther obligation upon him, conducted
him in person, to gate of Richelieu.
Beffort in Alsatia is at length taken by the Marshall de
la Ferte Seneterre, in which service was the Duke, of Yorks
Regiment.
Here hath lately, been an Assembly of the Clergy, intended
to oppose a Bull of the Pope's obtained by the Jesuits,
whereby they had gotten power, the first Sunday in
every month, by publick prayers, to fetch souls out of
Purgatory, and so were in a fair way to have carried away
the main Trade from the rest of the Clergy, The other
occasion of their meeting was, to oppose the Impositions
and Taxes laid upon them by the King and his Council;
to the payment whereof our Parisian Clergymen are very
averse, because of the hard usage and continued imprisonment
of their Patron, the Cardinal de Retz, who hath
been sollicited by divers messengers from his Majesty, to
make a surrender of the Coadjutorship of this City; and
upon condition he do it, he hath b[unr]n promised his Liberty.
But it will not be; the said Cardinal returnes nothing but
excuses, and modest denials, yet sufficiently resolute.