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and ffleet and was pleased to conferr the
honor of Knighthood upon Admirall
Rook = The Bill for Apprehending
of highwaymen gives 40^li the horses
ffurniture and Cloaths to those that
shall take them and if any high~
way man shal Impeach or Convict
2 of the Gang he shall be Entituled to
the Kings pardon

Letters from Paris of the 21
Advise that the King hath been ^Lately Indisposed
by eating of green pease which were sent
him by the Intendant of provence and
cost 25 Crowns a quart but his Maies^tie is
again pretty well recovered and all things
are preparing for his Iourney to fflanders
he designing to be at Namur by the first
of the next month resolving to enterprise
some accion In the Netherlands, Monsieur Van
CharleRoy to surrender in 9 dayes after
the Trenches are opened before it and
every thing is preparing at Rochfort for the
departure of Chateau Rennault who is
going to gett ready the squadron that is to
meet and Ioin the Count de Estree with the
Thoulon squadron Lest the English and
dutch Should attack them coming from
the mediterranean

The Duke of Wirtemburgh is
going to the Court of Vienna to Iustify himself
it being Charged upon him that to

were Carryed from Newgate down the river in order to their Transportacion = the house
of Lords haue Adiourned the debate Concerning the City Livetenancy sine die = This day
their Lordships read a 2d time the Bill brought in by the Earl of Pembroke of 5000^li out
per Annum out of the estate of the Lord Iefferyes which was decreed to him by his ffather
then Chancelor and 2 dayes after Marryed his Son to the Lady to whom he decreed It

gain his Liberty he had undertaken to pro-
cure a Generall peace

They write from Rome that
the pope has promised to Cardinall de Estrees
to grant unto the fffrench king the 10th of
the Ecclesiasticall Lands in ffrance to Carry
on a vigorous warr against the Hereticks
and for the Restauracion of King Iames

They write from portugall that
Queen Dowager of England arrived at
Lisbon the 20th of Last Month

The Letters from Cadiz Say
that 1500 houses haue been swallowed
up in a Late Earthquake at Havanna
In the Spanish West Indies and that
at Mexico the Indians Lately made a
defeccion and burned the Councell house with
the palace and obliged the ViceRoy for
his safety to retire into the ffranciscan
Cloyster = a Marriage is agreed between
the Emperors Son and the princess of
Sweeden by vertue of which his Swee
dish Maiestie is to furnish the Emperor with
15000 men for 3 years

Count Horne Late Governor
of ffurnes in fflanders had Like to haue
been Torn in pieces as [Decvit] was
by the Boores in Holland for ~
Lately Surrendering that Garison to the
French

=It is said that the Heer Over
kirk is made Governor of Maestricht

Tallmouth 6th a dutch ship
from Guynea having ben Lately taken
by 2 ffrench privatiers

off of Cape Clear they were driven by a strong Southerly wind Into the North Channell
and believing themselves to be on the Coast of France hung out a Waft whereupon
2 Boats went to them and overpowring the ffrench that were on board
they yesterday brought The ship into the peer = The streights ffleet consisting
of 27 men of war will saill in 3 or 4 daies if the wind be ffair = on Saturday
night about 10 a Clock 21 Criminalls vizt 18 .... Men and 3 women