The Princess Royall of Orange is not yet returned, and (as
we hear) she is to carry some weeks longer with her brother
at Bruges.
An Advertisement of Impritante to Merchants
THe H[unr]de Frigat (one of the 3 appointed for Conveyance of Letters and Pasquets
from Portugal) is arived at Ply[unr] from Lisb[unr], and hath brought Letters from
thence to sundry Merchants. The Rocbuck, another of the said Frigats went from
thence for Lisbon, Tuesday December 30, And the Courser, the third of the said Frigotts will
depart from plymouth, on Tuesday the 6. instant; and from thenceforth every Tuesday fortnight,
one of the said Frigats will constantly depart from Plymouth at El[unr] of the Clock in the
Forenoon. So that all Letters sent from London upon the Saturday night before, will come to
plymouth in good time to be conveyed to Portugall; from whence the said Frigate will as constantly
return. So that by God help, every Fourteen daies will produce an answer to Letters
for they are not to carry any Goods, but Letters and Pacquets only.
From Lyon December 19. 1656.
The Letters out of Switzerland say, that the levies made
by the Elector of Saxony for his lifeguard were ended, and
that they were already marching towards him. That the definitive
decision was adjourned to olten to the 16 of January
next, and that in the interim both sides were still resolved for
a peace. That the Cantons of Friburg were continuing very
rigorously, their fortifications towards the commons of
Bern. That the Zurich Post going weekly to Zurich, had
been lately murthered upon the hill called Heitersperg about
Baden, where he ws found dead. That all the Letters he had
about him were taken from him, and that it is thought there
is some secret design of the Popish side, therein to discover
what is in agitation of a doing; And that the pope was
sending great sums of money to the Popish Canrons, and in
particular the money which the Duke of Nemours was to
pay for the popes dispensation for his marriage with Madam
moiselle de Longueville.
Out of Italy Decemb. 16. 1656.
The plagues which God sends upon this Land are the Occasion
of the increasing of the Idolatry, men here being fallen
into a reprobate sense; The holy water and the Idol[unr]t
being able to avert Gods wrath they are come to use another
kind of Superstition, having made choice of an Unknown
saint to divert the Plague of pestilence from them. The
Commonwealth of Genoa hath gathered a hundred thousand