as in lengthning out the thread of his life, to reserve it to be
cut by the hand of the law, so likewise in ordering that very
place, which was Tamelyn, where not long since, he, and his
followers committed a Murder on severall English, to be the
trap to catch him, and his own followers to bettay him being
taken the last Lords day at night, by some of Colonell Prittys
souldiers, who brought him the next day to this Town, where
he is like to have more favour then his villanies deserve, by an
orderly and regular tryall at Law, and continues, as senceless
either of his temporall or eternall condition as f he had not
the soul of a man within him: his apprehension will tend much
to the quiet and settlement of these parts.
From Zurich in Switzerland, December 16, S. N.
The Lords of the Canton of Zurick having been in consultation,
have thought it fit and convenient to send an illustrious
Ambssage to their excelliencies the senate of Berne, to give
them an account of the insupportable grievances and difficulties
which they met with, not only in the late negotiation in
the Assembly of the Deputies of both sides, but in many
other, so that no firm or uniform resolution could be taken, in
order to a composure of differences; and therefore that they
are constrained to be take themselves to waies of Warr, to
attaine that by force which cannot be obtained in an amicable
way; and they are resolved to break the fury and destroy the
superstition of these Popish Idolaters, and exterminate them
in this season, wherein they are not like to have any assistance,
whereas if they be let alone and have time given them till
spring, they wil gain supplies from their Papistick confederates
and Neighbors, and so not be tamed without an effusion of
much bloud.
From Colen December 15
These Parts much alarmed with the noise of the great Successes
of the Swede in Purssia, no whit inferior to those that he
had upon his first entry into Poland, both Strasburg and
Thoren having admitted his men to Garrison them; and tis
believed, that the other Places of Prussia will all soon doe the
like; only tis dubious what resolution will be taken by them