Numb: 244
Mercurius Politicus.
Comprising the sum of all Intelligence,
with the Affairs and Designs
now on foot in the three Nations
OF
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, & IRELAND.
In defence of the Commonwealth,
and for Information of the People.
------ It à vertere Seria. {Horat. [unr]
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday February. 8. to Thursday February 15. 1654.
From Edenburgh February 6.
IT is somewhat to bee wondred at,
that Middleton, being in such distress
and hardship as we know him to be,
should not prosecute that Peace
which he seemed so earnestly to propound
on the behalf of himself and
his men, by a messenger sent to Generall
Monck on purpose, who sent
him a passport or safe-conduct for those persons, whom he
said he would employ in bringing propositions, as the subject
of Treaty with the Generall: His Commissoners are
every day expected at Dalkeith; and were they once come,
I am persawaded there would be an agreement, and consequently
great hope of an end to the Troubles of this Nation:
There is little news yet of the Lord Lorn. His Father,
the Marquis of Argile, undertook to bring him to
good terms, but yet it is not done, and he goes on to doe