Two letters from the Hague
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- Two letters from the Hague
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- 1649.
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- Great Britain -- History
- Charles -- King of England, -- 1630-1685
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"Two letters from the Hague." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A78123.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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A LETTER FROM THE HAGVE Concerning Prince Charles his going into Scotland, and of six thousand Danes to be landed there.
SIR,
I Received yours this Morning. In your last you request all true newes, which now is very plentifull, The Prince is here yet, but his departure expected, and by many longed for: I cannot certainly in∣forme you, whether it be into Scotland, or into Ire∣land, he is expected at both. Sir George Radcliffe is sent
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after Gen: Riven, to hasten the Swedish Army into their quarters: there are 6000 men at Necopia, ready to put to Sea, and 1200 at Lo••usia, waiting only for the m••lting of the Ise: and the Duke of Helsigna their Generall.
There is at Hamborough, waiting only for a wind, great store of Souldiers: 6000 Danes are by this time landed in Scotland, bound for England, and Duke of Ho••••t Generall: 4000 more are daily expected. In the Swedish Army are seven Dukes, nine Marquesses, seventeen Earls, and two or three and twenty Lords. That of the Danes, two Dukes, seven Earles, three Marquesses, and fifteene or sixteen Lords. These are great numbers, and it is to be feared, will do more hurt to our already too poor Country, then they can do good. And yet we must have very many more, as well of the barbarous Irish, as of the beggarly Scot, and the both proud and foolish French.
We heare certainly, the peace is concluded on in France: and by an expresse from P. Rupert, the Prince of Wales is assured of a strong Hold in Ireland; for the two Princes Rupert and Maurice, are at Sea with seventy two Ships, and Frigots, and their Randezvouz the twelfth of March, are to be within nine Leagues of Dublin, at the Castle of Burkley.
The sixth of this instant, the Lord of Or∣mond, Generall, the Lord of Clanrickard, Lieute∣nant Generall; the Lord Ta••••e, Generall of the Horse; the Lord Muskerry, Commissary; and Inchiquin,
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and Preston, with five thousand men, to meet Ormond and his fifteen thousand, at Pitmere, twenty miles from Dublin.
Ile assure you, this is the Princes intelligence: and if I could have got the Coppy of the Proclamation, sent to the Lord of Ormond, you should have had it; But take the heads. First, he shewes, that he hath no desire to commence his Reigne in bloud, and that he will freely pardon those now holding any Castle or Garrison for the Parliament of England; That he fights only to settle himselfe in the Throne of his late Father, and a deale to this purpose. This was sent to the Lord of Ormond, by Collonell Buckworth, to be proclaimed as a Pardon to all those that will falsify the trust reposed in them by the Parliament of Eng∣land.
This Ile assure you, but with more allacrity assure you that I am,
Hague, March 16. 1648.
Your assured friend G. B.