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a member of Parliament
hath a Letter from ffransom in Cheshire
that there hath been Lately an Extraordinary
Storm of Thunder and Lightening which
burned down a ffarmers Barn which the
Countrey prognosticates some Grand Matter
from according to the English proverb ~
Winters Thunder is Summers Wonder.

Last night 2 Gentlemen in
a Coach on Ludgate Hill came out and
stabbed a pavier in 2 places he saith
he knowes them to be highway men &
& they are committed

yesterday the House of peers
read the Grand Supply Bill the 3d and Last
time and t'was believed the king would
haue been there to haue given It the
Royall Assent but the Lords haue added
a clause to Tax Themselves in their-
personall estates so that It must come
down again to the Commons and tis a
Question whether they will allow it in
a Land Tax though they did it in the
Poll Bill

The House was afterwards
all the day upon the second reading of the
Bill for an Annuall Parliamant they
afterwards committed it to the whole
house and changed it into a Trienniall
Parliament Bill vizt that we should
haue a new parliament evry 3d year

the proiect million Bill is quite finished and the money is to be paid in before Michaelmas and the
Grand Committee is to report it to Morrow = The Lords sett down the Supply Bill with the aforemencioned
clause which the house of Commons haue thrown out Nomine Contradicente and Sent a Message for
a Conference about it the speaker left the Chair and the Committee withdrew to drawe up reasons
And if the Lords Adhere the Bill will be Loct = the King has Appointed the Lord president to
be Lord High steward for the Tryall of the Lord Mohun = The House of Lords haue