St. Henry Vain Junior, M. Gen. Deaxe, Lieut. General
Monke, Col. Fenwick, Alderman Tichborn, and Major
Salaway. Who are providing to repair thither, and order is
given to our Forces there to Quarter as farr Northward as
they can towards the Enemie, that there may be the more
convenient room to recieve and Quarter those Recruits that
are to come thither, with the less burthen to that part of the
Country which we hold under obedience.
From Washford, in Ireland, October. 19.
These narrow Seas are so infected with Pirates, that
few vessels can pass without a Convoy: Some of our Merchants
made a shift this year to set forth 12. Saile of Ships,
but with so ill Success, that they have lost eleven of them
already. Some Skirmishes have been of late with severall
Parties of Tories, and in the last wee kill'd about an hundred.
Limrisk is in very great Scarcity, so that they turn out the
ordinary People to perish without the Town; which makes
those within desirous to yield upon any Terms, but the Solidery
are stinate, and seem to have put off humanity, like
Cannibals, eating the dead Bodies of men, because Necessarie
faile, and they are not able to reach the prices of the meanest
Sorts of Provision: wee expect shortly to hear ours have
it, and then Galloway must ( of cours ) follow the fate of
Limrick.
The manner of the Scotish King's Escape as it was sent from
Paris, by Letter of November 2. stilo novo.
HE came hither on Monday the last of October, and made
his Escape as followeth:
About 6 a clock in the Evening, his Army being in all likelyhood
beaten, he quitted Worcester Towne with a party of
Horse and marched toward Lancashire, but being fearfull of
being pursued: and likewise of som of the Scotch Officers that
might deliver him up, he with my Lord Wilmot quitted their
Horses, sent the party of Horse upon their march, and betook
themselves the second dayes march from Worceste
into a Tree, where they remained untill Night, and