A Letter to the City about Doctor Lamb's Death.
WHereas we are given to understand, That by the fury and outrage of divers dissolute and disorderly persons assembled together in great numbers without any resistance made, or course taken to sup∣press them (by the Magistrates to whom it apper∣tained) one Lamb was in a barbarous manner slain and murdered, wherewith his Majesty having been likewise made acquainted, as he is very sensible of the scandal that may hereby be cast upon the Peace and Government of this Realm in general, when the chief City hereof, and where his own Person is resident, should by the remissness and neglect of Ma∣gistrates, in the execution of his Laws, suffer a fact and misdemeanour of so high a nature to be committed, and to pass unpunished: So he is very highly displeased thereat, and hath therefore com∣manded us in his name hereby streightly to charge and require your Lordship, &c. that with all care and diligence you do forthwith inquire out the prin∣cipal Actors and Abettors therein, and to cause them to be apprehended and committed to Prison, and to be proceeded with, and punished in the seve∣rest manner that by the Laws of the Realm is pro∣vided against Offenders in so high a nature. And so, &c.
Dr. Neal Bishop of Winchester, and Dr. Laud * 1.1 Bishop of Bath and Wells, were named by the Commons to be those near about the King who are suspected to be Arminians, and that they are justly suspected to be unsound in their Opinions that way; and the House proceeded in the Re∣monstrance against the Duke.