Good news from Somerset-shire: of the taking of Captaine Digby son to the Earle of Bristow, who had raised a troupe of horse to come against the Parliament. : With the manner of his apprehending, and the staying of his horse by the town of Sherburne, and himself staid, to be sent up to the House of Parliament for his censure. : Also an instruction from both houses of Parliament to all iustices of the peace. / Joh. Brown cler. Parl.

A TRUE RELATION OF THE Plot intended against HVLL.

THe Cavaliers now about Hull make their approaches near the wals in the night, but in the day time dare not come neare for feare of pellets, not within two miles of the town: they burnt two of the mills near the town, and in attempting to burn the rest, were violently opposed by the shot of the Canon from the town; insomuch as they returned swiftly. It is not certainly knowne how many of the Cavaliers were kild; and the Earle of Newport was by the force of a Canon shot dismounted and throwne into a ditch of water of a great depth, where (after he had once sunk) he was catcht hold on by the haire of his head, and his life saved, which caused the Archbishop of York to give him his bles∣sing, saying, If he had been a Roundhead he he had been drowned, for there was no hold on his head, and that the long-hair'd Cavaliers were the onely saints. But after their retreat the high wayes were much besprinkled with blood. On tuesday night last the plot was laid, and persons appointed to doe the worke, for firing of the Towne in foure severall places,

the designe for the doing it was when they did discern a fire on Beverley Minster, it should be an assurance unto them, that at the same time two thousand men should assault the wals whilest the souldiers were a quenching the fire. But this plot was discovered a few houres before, the plotters being of the alli∣ance of Beck, with the Papist who should for∣merly have betrayed the towne, and is now the onely favourite at Court. It is certainly in∣formed, that the King adhereth to the advice of the Cavaliers, and totally deserts the coun∣sell of his Lords, which makes them ready to returne to London, seeing themselves in a manner not worthy to be hearkened unto, but rather the advice of such as seek and thirst af∣ter nothing but blood, and the utter destructi∣on of the three Kingdomes: which if it please not God to prevent, we are like by their evill suggestions to undergo the miseries of Germa∣ny and other neighbouring countreyes, who have their hands died in the scarlet blood of the saints, and nothing more sought after then the destruction one of another. Therefore let us remember that a kingdome divided against it selfe cannot stand, and seek, as farre as in us lies, with tears and supplications to the Almighty for the prevention thereof.