Numb. 339.
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 Thursday Decemb. 4. to Thursday Decemb. 11. 1656.
From St. Sebast[unr], 18. November.
ALL the Irish began are ready for sade, and
other five of them to Frigats belonging to this
Citie, which are to goe out upon the first occasion,
to meet the Spanish Inllians Fleet which
is in the way to it [unr] me to Spain and are expected
to be at [unr] and at month of December;
there is great feare, of their safe arival [unr] reason of the English,
that are very strong on the Spanish Coasts. The King of
Spain causeth his officers in all places near the Sea to set out
shipps, to see that the Fleet come [unr] and hath sent