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amongst the subordinate officers in that
office

on sunday Last Sir Robert [.iow]
an Auditor of the Exchecquer was
marryed to mrs Dives maid of honor
to the princess of Denmark the
Maitrossers and Gunners are ordered
to be Exercised 4 dayes every Week
till they Embarque for fflanders

We hear the Dunkirk
privatiers hauye Lately taken 3 Dutch
Merchant shipps from Rotterdam
bound for London

The Lord Pembrokes Bill
brought down from the Lords was
yesterday read the first time and tis
discoursed as if his Lordship will be made
Master: of the horse to the king

We hear sir Edward Seymour
will be made an Earl

yesterday the Spanish
Embassador made his publick Entry his
Excellency coming up the River In the
Kings Barges to the Tower Wharf
from whence he came through the
City to Whitehall being attended by the
Kinge and severall of the Nobilities
Coaches each 6 horses

There is a design to re
move the Kings Bench office from
the Temple to Grays Inn or
thereabouts

Yesterday the house of
peers read a 2d time &

and tis said they are In Chace of 60 saill of Danes and sweedes supposed to be bound
for Brest - Captain Nash one of the sea Commanders ordered to appear before the house of Commons
was yesterday at the old Baily found guilty of Impressing one Iohn Nain an Apprentice
to serue as a souldior in fflanders against his Consent and the Recorder told the Iury It
was a Crime next to Murther and Treason = a woman was Convicted of saying . King Iames
would be here by the 10th of March with a powerfull Armey ~~~

and Committed the Bill for receiving
the Trade of Greenland whale ffishing

The Earl of Danby is
fallen dangerously Sick on ship board
and yesterday the Tower yatch was
borrowed for his relacions to go and
visit him

Madam Dives aforemencioned
Is a Lady of 18 years of Age and
Robert 72 her ffather was Clerk
of the Councell Sir Robert hath taken
her mother and sisters into his ffamily

yesterday 40 horsemen
new raised in the County came to Town
to recruit the Earl of Oxfords Regiment

Tis Generally said that
when the parliament rises which
will be in Less then a fortnight we
shall haue a Lord Chancellor, Lord Trea
surer, a new Secretary of State a
new master of the horse a new Lord privy
Seall &c.

yesterday the house of Commons
heard had a Lamentable Complaint made to them
about the Irregular Impressing of the Kings
subiects and some without Authority
hurryed them to the Tower where the
officers of the Armey came and bought them
for recruits for fflanders and some of them
were sufficient house sweepes others Appren
tices ffootmen &c and that there were divers
houses under the provost Marshall which
they hurryed thise poor wretches to where
they put them into Irons, Laid them on the
Boards and then either fforced them to give
Money for theire Redempcion or sold them for
5s or 10s a head

upon which a messenger was oirdered to bring one Clark Deputy Marshall with his prisoners to the house
and before they arose he with 12 men Chained together came before this house and the matter being
examined into 9 of the men were found to be Impressed and Barbarously used and they being
Called to the Barr their Armes were all taken off in the house and they sett at Liberty and War
rants are sent out after others detained in the same manner - 5 men of warr & 3 ffireshipps
which sayled Last week out of the Downs were seen Last saturday on the back of the Goodwins