Numb. 334.
Mercurius Politicus,
COMPRISING
The sum of Forein Intelligence, with
the Affairs now on foot in the three Nations
OF
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, & IRELAND.
For Information of the People.
------ It à vertere Seria {Horat, de
Ar. Poet.
From Wednesday October 29. to Thursday Novemb. 6, 1656.
From on board the Hampshire-Frigat in Plymouth-Sound,
October 27.
THese are to give you an Account of our putting
in here; the occasion whereof is a followeth:
On the 23 instant in the Evening, began a very
fore storm, the wind various and unstable: On
the 24 at night, we were put from all our sailes,
and forced to strike a Hull; and yet for all this we kept company
with the Sapphire-Frigat. The next morning, the wind
abating, so that we could carry our Mainsail, the Sapphire