Numb: 605
Mercurius Politicus
COMPRISING
The sum of Foreign Intelligence, with
the Affairs now on foot in the Three Nations
OF
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, & IRELAND.
For Information of the People.
Published by Order of Parliament.
From Thursday January 26. to Thursday February. 2. 1660.
From Abingdon, Jan. 26.
I Late by sent you from hence an account of the late proceeding, under
pretence of an Election of a Parliament-man to be made for the County,
in this Town on Monday last.
At Wantage Market, at noon, notice was given by publick Proclamation,
That whereas a Writ was come down to elect a Knight of
the Shire, in the place of Squire Fettriplace, deceased, therefore the
Freeholders were desired to give the Gentry a meeting here on the day before-mentioned.
This brought some thousands of the Country together, but
no body can tell yet who said the designs for that must be best known at
Wantage, by those that were put upon the work of proclaiming.
You have a Copy of it here inclosed; and Sir Robert Pye, who was one of
the principal Gentlemen in their late meeting (where the Paper was contrived
and subscribed) is gone up to London to deliver it. What success he is like to
have upon the delivery, we can not imagine; but as the contents of it do contradict
the sense and judgment of Parliament already declared by vote; so