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INTELLIGENCE-LETTER
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1649]
take soe much paines upon such undeserving wretches. Wee
give out for Ireland, but wee are really for you, and possiblely
may aske leave to march through some part of your Countrey,
to shipp our men the more easily to the North of Ir., because
ere this comes to you it is verily thought Dublin1 wilbe
taken; But our resolution is to stay with you to teach you
more manners.
That talke of the damned Peace in ffrance2 does not a
little trouble us. But much is seene from those couragious
comaunders who plainly say they care not for all the con¬
federacies in the world.
Sr. Arth. Haslerigg 3 hath order for 80 Peece of Ordinance,
small and greate. The Sr Johns 4 are still railing agt the pious
proceedings here, notwithstanding one of the fraternity,
Cawton5 by name, is in hold and like to goe the Tyrants way;
our freinds doe what in them lyes to terrify that fraternity, by
threatnings and blowes and tumults, whilest they are venting
their venome as particularly agt Watkins6 of Southwark, Love,7
1 The last hold of thf Parliament in Ireland, then besieged by Ormond, and
held by Col. Jones, Jun. to Aug. 22, 1649, when it was relieved by a sally, just
before Cromwell’s arrival.
2 On April 3, 1649, R. Baillie, one of the Scotch Commissioners to Charles 11.
at the Hague, wrote thence, ‘Our enemies have great confidence by the French
peace to get powerful assistance from France.’ In this they were disappointed.
Mazarin had too much in hand with the Fronde business and war with Spain to
help Charles, even if willing; and was soon on good terms with Cromwell.
3 M.P. for Leicestershire. At this time Governor of Newcastle-on-Tyne, nomi¬
nated a King’s Judge, but not present at the final vote. Credited by Walker (ZfA/.
Indep. p. 173) with a motion, May 14th, to revenge the assassination of the regicide
Dorislaus, by putting six Royalists ‘ of the best quality ’ to death. The leader in
the attack on Dorislaus was Col. Whitfurd, a Scot, afterwards taken in Dunbeath
Castle, 1650, by David Leslie. See Wishart’s Montrose Index. Clarendon
says he escaped Montrose’s fate by pleading credit for this murder. Walker
says the murderers were ‘ 18 Scotsmen, friends to Hamilton,’ who thus revenged
the execution of Duke James, id. pp. 173-4. For more on Haselrigg, see
Gardiner’s Civil War, and Carlyle’s Cromwell, Indices.
4 Sir Johns, see p. 217, n. L
8 Thomas Cawton, pastor of St. Bartholomew Exchange, who insisted on
praying for the King.—Commons Journals, March 6,1649. He married Elizabeth,
sister of William Jenkyn,—a relation of the writer of this letter? This William
Jenkyn was pastor of Christ Church.
6 Stephen Watkins, pastor of St. Saviour, Southwark.
7 Christopher Love, pastor of St. Anne’s, Aldersgate, the ‘young eloquent