Numb: 206.
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. d
Ar. Poet
From Thursday, May 18. to Thursday May 25. 1654.
From Dalkieth, May 11.
Col: Morgan quarters about the River
Tane, guarding all the Passes, that (if
possible) he may prevent the Enemy
from making way Southward, if any
thing of that nature should be attempted.
But as yet there is no likelihood of
that; for the enemy are as yet in Parties remote
from each other, Middleton one way, and
Glencairn another. Besides, our Intelligencers
agree, that their number diminisheth. Middletons
brother, with some few Officers, and a party
of Souldiers, ventured down upon some part
of our Forces, which were routed and repelled,
and most of them taken; among others, the
brother of Middleton. The General hath hanged