Numb: 256.
Mercurius Politicus.
Comprising the sum of all Intelligence,
with the Affairs and Designs
now on foot in the three Ne[unr]:
OF
ENGLAND SCOTLAND, & IRELAND,
In defence of the Commonwealth,
and for Information of the People.
------ It à verters Seria. {Hor[unr]
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday May 3: to Thursday May 10. 1655.
From Edenburgh May 4
WE are all very quiet in this Nation; onely,
the tongues of Mal contents ars walking,
and particularly those of the Ministers in
many parts : which has awakened the Generall,
to take some course to stop them by
Proclamation, whereby they are prohibited
from praying publickly for their pretended King, which
they, of all men in the world, have the least occasion for,
considering how his Grandfather, his Father, and himself,
were all principled against them and their way, which they
hated above all others: And this young man has shewed
himself as bad as the worst, having rooked and cowed, and
scorned them, cleaving to his old Cavaliers, and shaking off
them, as soon as ever they had crowned him : yet this is
the man they would seem so much to dote on, as to endeavor
that the people might be enamor'd of him, and disaffected
to the Government; but for these things they will be