gain this great advantage which the better enabled us to deale
with that our grand Enemy. The Pope was in such consternation
at the mention of this Peace, that he made not a word
of Answer, but fetching a deep sigh, said at length, that he
would call a Congregation of Cardinals to advise of such
course as may be most conducing to the good of the Church.
The little Queen, late of England, doth what she can to
avoid going to Bourges, and is in hope she may prevaile so far
as to obtaine leave to reside at the Castle of Madrid in the
wood of Boulogne, which is about a league and half distant
from this City, and not far from the Nunnery of Chaliot, a
place to which she hath been wont often to retire unto for the
exercise of her devotions; but she refuseth to be cloyster'd
up in that Nunnery, because it standing upon the river, is too
moist and cold for her constitution, she being subject to
Rhumes and other the like distempers.
Her son, the Titular Duke of York, notwithstanding the
Reports of his being gone, is still here, but is ready now to
depart, being bound for Brussels, to live under the beams of
the Spaniards favor and courtesie, a Prince that alwaies overreached
and abused, but never affected that family of the
Stuarts. The French Court is willing to be rid of him, and
therefore rather than not send him away, they intend to make
him a golden bridge by a supply of money out of the Finances,
which have been pretty well exhausted from time to
time to bear the charges of him, and his Mother, &c.
An Advertisement.
A Dumbe man who has lived 3[unr] years with Mistris Younger
at the Wheat Sheaf in Dayntrey, went about 10 daies
since 3 or 4 miles out of the Town and was never heard of
since, if such a one be met with, it would be a good work to
direct him home, and thankfully accknowledged by his
Mistris.
From the Hague, January 4.
Here is expected the Under Syndicus of Dantzick, coming